This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 10378 | But is this a legitimate process? |
| 10378 | The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? |
| 5123 | And first, it is necessary to ask, Have the slaves been consulted? |
| 5123 | But why discuss, on probable evidence, notorious facts? |
| 5123 | Could it have been expected, or even perhaps desired, that they should? |
| 5123 | Could the Union abandon them, without even an effort, to be dealt with at the pleasure of an exasperated slave- owning oligarchy? |
| 5123 | Has their will been counted as any part in the estimate of collective volition? |
| 5123 | Have they ever considered what would have been the meaning of separation if it had been assented to by the Northern States when first demanded? |
| 5123 | How have they treated those who did attempt so to apply them? |
| 5123 | If this be the true state of the case, what are the Southern chiefs fighting about? |
| 5123 | Or even if unforgotten, who would then have felt that such a grievance was a sufficient palliation of the crime? |
| 5123 | Shall we submit to see fire and sword carried over Cuba and Porto Rico, and Hayti and Liberia conquered and brought back to slavery? |
| 5123 | The will of any knot of men who, by fair means or foul, by usurpation, terrorism, or fraud, have got the reins of government into their hands? |
| 5123 | Why should the masters have members in right of their human chattels, any more than of their oxen and pigs? |
| 12004 | And why can Flanders do so? |
| 12004 | But what is wealth? |
| 12004 | But what shall we say of the workman who made the musical instrument? |
| 12004 | For what number? |
| 12004 | For, what is the cause which enables Flanders to undersell Germany? |
| 12004 | Have wages, in the sense above attached to them, fallen or not? |
| 12004 | How can he be enriched? |
| 12004 | How happens it that a firm superstructure has been erected upon an unstable foundation? |
| 12004 | How, for example, can we obtain a crucial experiment on the effect of a restrictive commercial policy upon national wealth? |
| 12004 | If these fetters were at once taken off, which of the two countries would be the greatest gainer? |
| 12004 | Take the science of politics, for instance, or that of law: who will say that these are physical sciences? |
| 12004 | To produce, implies that the producer desires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labour? |
| 12004 | Whence comes this anomaly? |
| 12004 | Why is the admitted certainty of the results of those sciences in no way prejudiced by the want of solidity in their premises? |
| 12004 | and yet is it not obvious that they are conversant fully as much with matter as with mind? |
| 16833 | As a specimen of historical forecast this is very deficient; for are there not the masses as well as the leaders of industry? |
| 16833 | By what means, then, had the cultivated minds of the Roman Empire been educated for Monotheism? |
| 16833 | If the imagination were not taught its prescribed lesson equally with the reason, where would be Unity? |
| 16833 | The regimen of a blockaded town should be cheerfully submitted to when high purposes require it, but is it the ideal perfection of human existence? |
| 16833 | Two questions meet us at the outset: Is there a natural evolution in human affairs? |
| 16833 | We are taught the right way of searching for results, but when a result has been reached, how shall we know that it is true? |
| 16833 | What, in truth, are the conditions necessary to constitute a religion? |
| 16833 | Why is it necessary that all human life should point but to one object, and be cultivated into a system of means to a single end? |
| 16833 | Would the mariner''s compass ever have been found by direct efforts for the improvement of navigation? |
| 16833 | Yet day and night are not the causes of one another; why? |
| 16833 | and is not theirs also a growing power? |
| 16833 | and is that evolution an improvement? |
| 11224 | ***** Is, then, the difference between the Just and the Expedient a merely imaginary distinction? |
| 11224 | As it involves the notion of desert, the question arises, what constitutes desert? |
| 11224 | But does the utilitarian doctrine deny that people desire virtue, or maintain that virtue is not a thing to be desired? |
| 11224 | But is this danger confined to the utilitarian morality? |
| 11224 | But is utility the only creed which is able to furnish us with excuses for evil doing, and means of cheating our own conscience? |
| 11224 | But this something, what is it, unless the happiness of others, or some of the requisites of happiness? |
| 11224 | Can an appeal be made to the same faculties on questions of practical ends? |
| 11224 | Does the belief that moral obligation has its seat outside the mind make the feeling of it too strong to be got rid of? |
| 11224 | He says to himself, I feel that I am bound not to rob or murder, betray or deceive; but why am I bound to promote the general happiness? |
| 11224 | How can the will to be virtuous, where it does not exist in sufficient force, be implanted or awakened? |
| 11224 | If my own happiness lies in something else, why may I not give that the preference? |
| 11224 | In a co- operative industrial association, is it just or not that talent or skill should give a title to superior remuneration? |
| 11224 | It is true, the question, What does violate the moral law? |
| 11224 | Or by what other faculty is cognizance taken of them? |
| 11224 | The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? |
| 11224 | The medical art is proved to be good, by its conducing to health; but how is it possible to prove that health is good? |
| 11224 | The question is often asked, and properly so, in regard to any supposed moral standard-- What is its sanction? |
| 11224 | The question, Need I obey my conscience? |
| 11224 | What ought to be required of this doctrine-- what conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil-- to make good its claim to be believed? |
| 11224 | What, for example, shall we say of the love of money? |
| 11224 | Who shall decide between these appeals to conflicting principles of justice? |
| 11224 | a question which Mr. Carlyle clenches by the addition, What right, a short time ago, hadst thou even_ to be_? |
| 11224 | or more specifically, what is the source of its obligation? |
| 11224 | what are the motives to obey it? |
| 11224 | whence does it derive its binding force? |
| 38138 | Ought we, then, to consider cheapness as a curse? 38138 What, then, can the unhappy man do? |
| 38138 | *****"What is competition from the point of view of the workman? |
| 38138 | And what are the other two workmen to do? |
| 38138 | But is this the fact? |
| 38138 | But what if they take to thieving? |
| 38138 | But why persist in considering the effect of cheapness with a view only to the momentary advantage of the consumer? |
| 38138 | Can he cultivate the earth for himself? |
| 38138 | Can he draw water from a spring enclosed in a field? |
| 38138 | Can he gather the fruits which the hand of God ripens on the path of man? |
| 38138 | Can he hunt or fish? |
| 38138 | Can he, dying from the cruel native land where everything is denied him, seek the means of living far from the place where life was given him? |
| 38138 | Can he, dying of hunger and thirst, stretch out his hands for the charity of his fellow- creatures? |
| 38138 | Can he, exhausted by fatigue and without a refuge, lie down to sleep upon the pavement of the streets? |
| 38138 | Does not disorder give birth to poverty, as order and good management give birth to riches? |
| 38138 | Has the population a limit which it can not exceed? |
| 38138 | Is it a necessary evil? |
| 38138 | Is it not the reverse of the fact? |
| 38138 | Is it not, on the contrary, an irresistible claim upon every human being for protection against suffering? |
| 38138 | Is not want of combination a source of weakness, as combination is a source of strength? |
| 38138 | Is the poor man a member of society, or an enemy to it? |
| 38138 | Is weakness a justification of suffering? |
| 38138 | It is true the workhouses exist, menacing society with an inundation of beggars-- what way is there of escaping from the cause?... |
| 38138 | To murder? |
| 38138 | What is he to do then?" |
| 38138 | Why should he check the supply, especially as he can throw any loss on the workman whose wages are so pre- eminently liable to rise and fall? |
| 34901 | ( it may be asked) Is the absence of unanimity an indispensable condition of true knowledge? |
| 34901 | A people, it appears, may be progressive for a certain length of time, and then stop: when does it stop? |
| 34901 | As soon as mankind have unanimously accepted a truth, does the truth perish within them? |
| 34901 | Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? |
| 34901 | But what will be his comparative worth as a human being? |
| 34901 | But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? |
| 34901 | Do the fruits of conquest perish by the very completeness of the victory? |
| 34901 | Fornication, for example, must be tolerated, and so must gambling; but should a person be free to be a pimp, or to keep a gambling- house? |
| 34901 | How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society? |
| 34901 | How( it may be asked) can any part of the conduct of a member of society be a matter of indifference to the other members? |
| 34901 | If there were nothing new to be done, would human intellect cease to be necessary? |
| 34901 | In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? |
| 34901 | Is it necessary that some part of mankind should persist in error, to enable any to realise the truth? |
| 34901 | Is the belief in a God one of the opinions, to feel sure of which, you hold to be assuming infallibility? |
| 34901 | Not only in what concerns others, but in what concerns only themselves, the individual, or the family, do not ask themselves-- what do I prefer? |
| 34901 | Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? |
| 34901 | Ought this to be interfered with, or not? |
| 34901 | Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars? |
| 34901 | They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position? |
| 34901 | They can not see what it is to do for them: how should they? |
| 34901 | What are they now? |
| 34901 | What do Protestants think of these perfectly sincere feelings, and of the attempt to enforce them against non- Catholics? |
| 34901 | What has made the European family of nations an improving, instead of a stationary portion of mankind? |
| 34901 | What is it that has hitherto preserved Europe from this lot? |
| 34901 | What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? |
| 34901 | Where does the authority of society begin? |
| 34901 | Who, after this imbecile display, can indulge the illusion that religious persecution has passed away, never to return? |
| 34901 | Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? |
| 34901 | Would it be a reason why those who do the old things should forget why they are done, and do them like cattle, not like human beings? |
| 34901 | Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? |
| 34901 | Yet who is there that is not afraid to recognise and assert this truth? |
| 34901 | [ 14] Would it be a legitimate exercise of the moral authority of public opinion? |
| 34901 | and if not, why not? |
| 34901 | or how can the answer be known to be satisfactory, if the objectors have no opportunity of showing that it is unsatisfactory? |
| 34901 | or what worse can be said of any obstruction to good, than that it prevents this? |
| 34901 | or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience? |
| 34901 | or who can blame people for desiring to suppress what they regard as a scandal in the sight of God and man? |
| 34901 | or( worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? |
| 34901 | or, what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair- play, and enable it to grow and thrive? |
| 34901 | or, what would suit my character and disposition? |
| 34901 | what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances? |
| 5669 | After how long a term should members of Parliament be subject to re- election? |
| 5669 | And has not the event proved that they were so? |
| 5669 | And if he form an uncomplimentary opinion of their part in the affair, what moral obligation is he likely to feel as to his own? |
| 5669 | Because the majority ought to prevail over the minority, must the majority have all the votes, the minority none? |
| 5669 | But are not all these qualities fully as much required for preserving the good we have as for adding to it? |
| 5669 | But are not these, of all qualities, the most conducive to improvement? |
| 5669 | But does it follow that the minority should have no representatives at all? |
| 5669 | But what is Order? |
| 5669 | Chapter IX-- Should there be Two Stages of Election? |
| 5669 | Chapter XII-- Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament? |
| 5669 | For if it is indeed a trust, if the public are entitled to his vote, are not they entitled to know his vote? |
| 5669 | For, first, what are Order and Progress? |
| 5669 | How are they even to select him in the first instance but by the same standard? |
| 5669 | How is it possible, then, to compute the elements of political power, while we omit from the computation any thing which acts on the will? |
| 5669 | If it be deemed unjust that either should have to give way, which injustice is greatest? |
| 5669 | Is he to alter his course? |
| 5669 | Is he to defer to the nation? |
| 5669 | Is it a good rule which, in the American Constitution, provides for the election of the President once in every four years by the entire people? |
| 5669 | Is it likely he will suppose that it is for_ his_ interest they incur all this cost? |
| 5669 | Is it necessary that the minority should not even be heard? |
| 5669 | Or let the majority be English, the minority Irish, or the contrary: is there not a great probability of similar evil? |
| 5669 | Should There Be Two Stages of Election? |
| 5669 | Should a member of the legislature be bound by the instructions of his constituents? |
| 5669 | Should he be the organ of their sentiments, or of his own? |
| 5669 | Suppose the majority Catholics, the minority Protestants, or the reverse; will there not be the same danger? |
| 5669 | Suppose the majority to be whites, the minority negroes, or_ vice versâ_: is it likely that the majority would allow equal justice to the minority? |
| 5669 | What development can either their thinking or their active faculties attain under it? |
| 5669 | What guaranty is there that these measures accord with the wishes of a majority of the people? |
| 5669 | What is the monarch to do when these unfavorable opinions happen to be in the majority? |
| 5669 | What should we then have? |
| 5669 | What sort of human beings can be formed under such a regimen? |
| 5669 | What, then, prevents the same powers from being exerted aggressively? |
| 5669 | When a subject arises in which the laborers as such have an interest, is it regarded from any point of view but that of the employers of labor? |
| 5669 | When it is said that the strongest power in society will make itself strongest in the government, what is meant by power? |
| 5669 | Which of these modes of getting over the difficulty is most for the interest of both, and most conformable to the general fitness of things? |
| 5669 | Why does no one ever hear a breath of disloyalty from the Islands in the British Channel? |
| 5669 | Will those who object to his being questioned in classics and mathematics, tell us what they would have him questioned in? |
| 5669 | With all this array of reasons, of the most fundamental character, on the affirmative side of the question, what is there on the negative? |
| 5669 | Yet does Parliament, or almost any of the members composing it, ever for an instant look at any question with the eyes of a working man? |
| 5669 | Yet what can be more conducive to Progress? |
| 5669 | after their names? |
| 5669 | and is not any growth of these virtues in the community in itself the greatest of improvements? |
| 5669 | that the better judgment should give way to the worse, or the worse to the better? |
| 5669 | their ambassador to a congress, or their professional agent, empowered not only to act for them, but to judge for them what ought to be done? |