26. Why is superstition so prevalent? The class should discuss the explanations presented.
27. "The point that always perplexes me is this: I always feel that if all the wealth was shared out, it would be all the same again in a few years' time. No one has ever explained to me how you can get over that." Explain clearly one of the two views suggested here.
28. Explain the failure of some political movement, or the defeat of some nation.
29. Select a passage from some book, report, or article, couched in intricate technical or specialized phraseology. Explain it clearly to the class.
30. Ben Jonson, a friend of Shakespeare's, wrote of him, "He was not of an age, but for all time." What did he mean?