Compare the qualities and conditions mentioned in § 9. You will see that qualities are attributes that go to make up the nature of the thing. They remain with it, while its conditions change.

Exercise 4. Composition

1. Think of some subject of thought. Make a long list of its attributes. In class you may read your list and see if the other pupils can name the subject of thought by knowing its attributes. Put last the ones most likely to give your secret away.

2. Show that cheerfulness may be a quality of one person and a condition of another.

3. You are going to start an orchard. Make a list of desirable attributes of the trees. Of the fruit.

4. Make a list of the good qualities of a draft horse. A road horse. A coach horse.

5. Make a list of unfortunate conditions of a horse.

6. Make a list of attributes of some kind of tree or of some animal.

7. Show that we may make assertions about things that are not made up of matter, such as goodness, love, laziness, anger.