Questions

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
58460	How could it be otherwise?
58460	What is the consequence?
6970	And the diaphragm?
6970	How much do you want for it?
6970	How so?
6970	What are you telling me?
6970	What is the meaning of this?
6970	What,_ do trees eat?_you ask.
6970	Why do people eat? 6970 A child, did I say? 6970 A handful of charcoal- dust, and a few live embers between two layers of ashes, is enough for the whole day; which is economical, is it not? 6970 Accordingly, what happens in the long run to our great eaters and drinkers, whether in India or elsewhere? 6970 And I am obliged to own there is none in the milk itself; but, I daresay, you know curdled milk or_ rennet_? 6970 And even now is there nothing we have forgotten? 6970 And how long does it take to produce that rust- stain, even though it is probably not a hundredth part the size of the paper? 6970 And if we lift up the cuirass which encases it, what do we behold? 6970 And it is a very valuable maid that we have here: what would become of us without her? 6970 And now tell me what cottage roof in the world was ever built so as to be able to stand against such a weight? 6970 And now what do we find here, let me ask you, in this mutilated man, reduced to the soft portions of the trunk, whom I have been imagining? 6970 And now, my dear little pupil, to what conclusion do we come from all this? 6970 And then what happens? 6970 And what becomes of the rest? 6970 And what can throw a stronger light on our duties than a thorough acquaintance with ourselves? 6970 And what is the moral of our history to- day? 6970 And what is the office of a well- instructed porter? 6970 And when you take hold of a kitten or a bird, how do they feel? 6970 And who do you suppose is this audacious animal, which presumes to have an inside so like that of a pretty little girl? 6970 And who is the sufferer? 6970 And who suffered? 6970 And who, do you think, this sly goblin is? 6970 And yet what is his most gracious majesty to you to- day? 6970 And yet why not? 6970 Are you disappointed? 6970 Before the cook lights the fires the maid must go to market, must she not? 6970 Blood does not carry fire only into the muscles; he supplies them with nourishment also, does he not? 6970 But I ask why? 6970 But can you picture to yourself the distance which forty miles high really is? 6970 But how came it that the sheep''s blood had so large a stock of these materials? 6970 But if another man of equal strength were to push you at the same time on the other side, what would happen? 6970 But if nobody has seen this, say you, how can they know it for a fact? 6970 But if she has no bellows at hand, what does she do? 6970 But tell me further, if you please, what is tallow? 6970 But the next question is, what becomes of all the refuse which this perpetual destruction produces? 6970 But then I must push the question further, and ask-- How had you grown? 6970 But what do people make fires for? 6970 But what has all this to do with fishes? 6970 But what in the world am I talking about? 6970 But what is the indispensable thing which the blood obtains in his marketing? 6970 But what is to be done? 6970 But what-- you will ask-- is it going to do now at the heart, towards which it is on its road? 6970 But where am I leading you? 6970 But you are astonished, are you not? 6970 Can you tell me what it proceeds from? 6970 Can you tell me? 6970 Carbon 63 Hydrogen-- You can fill up this number yourself, can you not? 6970 Choose any place you please upon your body, and run the finest needle you can find into it what will issue from the puncture? 6970 Did you ever see a doctor try the pulse of his patient? 6970 Do I say nourished? 6970 Do you ask of what use it is? 6970 Do you ever recollect being very cold? 6970 Do you feel as I do, my dear child? 6970 Do you feel inclined to exclaim,Is this all?"
6970	Do you know what takes place in such cases?
6970	Do you remember of my talking of the_ vertebral column_ when I was describing that great artery, the_ aorta_, to which it forms a rampart of defence?
6970	Do you remember, on your aunt''s wedding- day, that there was a sparkling wine called champagne, at the grand breakfast?
6970	Do you suppose that the palace of Versailles was illuminated in honor of this marriage?
6970	Do you think a tumbler is empty, then, when you have drunk out its contents; and that jelly pots are empty when all the jelly is eaten?
6970	Do you think so really, my child?
6970	Do you think this is likely to interest you, and be worth the trouble of some thought and attention?
6970	Do you understand?
6970	Does not the very name please you?
6970	Does not the"wet"seem to climb up it thread by thread, till it is damp from one end to the other?
6970	Each of the instruments in the orchestra performs its own part, does it not?
6970	First and foremost-- Have you ever asked yourself_ why_ people eat?
6970	Have I had power, then, to create one with a stroke of the spade?"
6970	Have you ever amused yourself by watching a large ox lying down in a meadow?
6970	Have you ever observed a worm or a leech in motion?
6970	Have you ever seen a bagpiper, I wonder?
6970	Have you forgotten our steward who looks after everything?
6970	He would be very unjust in so doing, would he not?
6970	He would most likely ask at once,"What lamp?"
6970	How about the remainder, then?
6970	How are we to get out of this puzzle?
6970	How can one distinguish-- you will ask me-- an artery from a vein, so as to be able to determine which is a vein and which an artery?
6970	How can the air below the stone press against it?
6970	How does it feed?
6970	How does the tortoise get out of this difficulty then, you will ask?
6970	How has this come about?
6970	How is he to get out of his difficulty then, this overwhelmed steward of ours?
6970	How is this done, do you think?
6970	How many things should I not have to say to you on this subject, if you were older?
6970	How was it, then, that the sleeves no longer came down to your wrists, or that the body only reached your knees?
6970	I said to you long ago, and at a time when you scarcely knew anything,"Have you ever observed a worm or a leech in motion?
6970	I wonder whether you know him?
6970	If a good thing is set before you at dinner, do you send for the servants to eat it?
6970	If a little girl has had a plaything given to her by her mother, would she think to please her by breaking it or throwing it into a corner?
6970	If a very strong man were to push you on one side, could you resist him?
6970	If the microscope has not yet caught them in any overt living act, who can be surprised?
6970	In all?
6970	In the mansion we were talking about some time ago, to whom would anyone who wanted to light a fire, apply for wood?
6970	Is it to lose it, then, to find ourselves side by side with inferiors whom the Divine benevolence has visited like ourselves?
6970	Is there anything inside, do you think?
6970	Is this because oxygen never unites himself with those substances, nor with heaps of others which are equally useless in lighting a fire?
6970	It is always black, then, that these things turn, is it not?
6970	It is very grand for us, is it not, to know that there is phosphorus and lime in our teeth?
6970	It may be humiliating, perhaps, to be thus only partially mistress at home; but what can you do, my little demi- queen?
6970	It turns quite black, does it not?
6970	It would be worthy of a fairy tale, would it not?
6970	Must I add, too, that I am not working for you only?
6970	Nay, may I not call it a green field?
6970	No longer the same?
6970	Now a sheet of paper is very light, is it not?
6970	Now comes the question, who provided the sheep''s fat with such a quantity of hydrogen and carbon as to qualify it for making candles?
6970	Now if any one should come in and hear you say,"Look at my lamp,"what would he reply?
6970	Now if you touch a frog, a lizard, or a fish, how do they feel to you?
6970	Now it seems absurd to you, perhaps, that it should be necessary to reward a man for eating a good dinner?
6970	Now tell me, when you set fire to a bit of paper, how long does it take to burn?
6970	Now we will suppose you to enter the house; and what do you find there?
6970	Now, can you guess the weight of the column of air forty miles high which this volume supports?
6970	Now, how is that?
6970	Now, if some naughty child had come behind you with a lighted candle, what would you have done?
6970	Now, then, can you tell me whence comes this warmth?
6970	Now, where did the blood obtain this phosphorus and lime?
6970	Of course, you do not suppose that fishes have lungs like ours?
6970	Of what is he composed?
6970	Science, and human industry, and unlimited means-- what will they not accomplish?
6970	Shall I go further, is the question, and take you with me into the fields of supposition, so full of noxious weeds?
6970	Shall I tell you where this one fails?
6970	She takes the bellows and blows it, does she not?
6970	So when I told you oxygen was king of the world, I did not say too much, did I?
6970	Surely we do n''t eat_ that_?
6970	Surely, say you, we have nothing like_ that_ in our bodies?
6970	Tell me now, what connection was there between your overrunning yourself in a race and the extraordinary degree of heat which came over you so soon?
6970	That seems to you rather a strong expression, does it not?
6970	The column outside the roof no longer presses upon it, but what is the gain of that?
6970	The four corners remain in their place, do they not?
6970	The intestine of the cockchafer floats, did I not say?
6970	The lizard is very nimble, is it not?
6970	The molars in both animals are cylindrical and smooth, this is a trifle, but what would you have?
6970	The next question is, how did charcoal or carbon get into the food so as to justify our talking of its being_ carbonized_ or_ charred_?
6970	The same God made both; did he not?
6970	There is a brilliant- colored fly which comes buzzing about the meat- safe-- the bluebottle-- do you know her?
6970	They are dead to their first life, therefore; now the question is, how are they to be revived into the new one?
6970	This is easily said, dear child; but suppose that you do not comprehend it?
6970	This is well worth knowing, is it not?
6970	This ought to be so, ought it not?
6970	Though the grain may not have been masticated in the bill, what does it signify?
6970	To begin with, I shall have to stop here and explain to you before we go any further-- can you guess what?
6970	To go on further: Have you any idea how many hands have been put in motion merely to enable you to have your coffee and roll in the morning?
6970	To make pap for infants what do we add to the bread after it is cut in little bits?
6970	Twenty- eight, did I say?
6970	Was I not justified in asserting that the unity of the animal plan is to be found in the digestive tube?
6970	Was I not right?
6970	Was I wrong, in saying from the beginning, that we become better as we grow in knowledge?
6970	Was I wrong?
6970	We know, do we not, that the substances which burn best are those which are full of hydrogen and carbon?
6970	What are all our buildings after this?--those pyramids and cathedrals which seem so gigantic to us?
6970	What are our mouthfuls in comparison with his?
6970	What becomes of it then?
6970	What becomes of it?
6970	What could a harpoon have to say for itself?
6970	What do you owe to him?
6970	What do you say yourself?
6970	What do you think became of them when they got there?
6970	What is bread made of?
6970	What is there, then, in the paper which pleases the oxygen so much that he unites himself to it so readily, and in such large quantities?
6970	What is there?
6970	What may we infer from all this, my dear child?
6970	What more?
6970	What say you to the diaphragm now, my child?
6970	What shall I tell you besides?
6970	What would become of us all in such a case?
6970	What would become of you if you were to see a person die in your presence in consequence of some foolish joke, however apparently innocent?
6970	What would you do at dinner, for instance, if you had no hands?
6970	What would you say, then, if I were to go really to the depths of the crustacean world?
6970	When I told you just now that the dance of labor was worth as much as the dance of the ball- room, was I right or wrong?
6970	When it was ended,--"How is this?"
6970	When mutton- chops are left too long unturned on the gridiron, what happens to them?
6970	When the cook wants to light her fire with two or three hot coals, what does she do?
6970	When you are toasting a slice of bread for breakfast, and hold it too near the fire, what happens to it?
6970	When you put your hand on your throat, how does it feel to you?
6970	When you run as fast as you can, how many times, think you, do you move your legs in one second?
6970	When your brother forgets the apples which he has set to roast, what happens to them?
6970	Whence comes our superiority at all, but from the gratuitous gifts of Him who has made us what we are?
6970	Where do the veins begin?
6970	Where is it not?
6970	Who made the heavens and the earth?
6970	Why do people eat, then, even when they have nothing to eat but soup?
6970	Why should you not, then, feel a certain amount of interest in looking with me into the insides of real animals?
6970	Wood?
6970	Worms, crustaceans, mollusks; to which group do these and those belong?
6970	Yet what is the large sheet but a great quantity of little bits of thread?
6970	Yet what prevents their doing so?
6970	You are astonished, and ask, What are we coming to?
6970	You are going to ask me,"What is all this to me-- this history of the blood and its sweepings?
6970	You are not much the wiser, are you?
6970	You ask what I am coming to now?
6970	You feel quite sure blood is red, do you not?
6970	You have sometimes played at hide- and- seek yourself, no doubt?
6970	You know the old oak- tree which stands on the outskirts of the wood, and is called among the country folk_ the patriarch_?
6970	You know this, do you not?
6970	You may well ask why I am telling you such horrible stories, and what I am coming to with my carbonic acid?
6970	You recollect that canal of the liver which I was afraid to tell you the name of because it was so ugly?
6970	You recollect that yellowish liquid I spoke about, which lies underneath the_ clot_, or_ coagulum_ of the blood?
6970	You remember a certain door- keeper, or porter, of whom we have already spoken a good deal, who resides in the mouth-- the sense of taste, I mean?
6970	You remember that comparison of the lamp with which I began my story, and which you could not at the time see the full value of?
6970	You remember the_ pylorus_--the porter down below, who keeps the door of egress from our stomach?
6970	You remember what a violent headache your servant suffered from the other day after ironing all those clothes you had in the wash?
6970	You see a little hole there, do you not, and below the little hole a small piece of leather, which seems to close it up?
6970	You smile, and exclaim at once,"Then he marries them, does he?"
6970	You would find it very awkward, would you not?
6970	_ Warm_, does it not?
6970	almost all of them have some, and I am heartily ashamed of their scientific designation; but how can we help it?
6970	and that poison makes part of our teeth?"
6970	and that this is the unchanging basis upon which the Creator of the animal world had raised his varied constructions?
6970	do you know what we shall do?
6970	if you had to breakfast at the bottom of the Thames, and could not swallow a morsel without having your nose filled with water?
6970	in what does he interest you?
6970	said he to his conductor;"did you not tell me that I was to see here the most distinguished families of Paris?"
6970	startled more little girls than one?
6970	surely to warm themselves, do they not?
6970	to ask where are the wonders I promised you?
6970	to protest that I may talk as I please about the inflating and flattening of a pocket- handkerchief?
6970	what am I saying?
6970	where do the arteries end?
6970	you ask; if it is not consumed for use, what becomes of it?
6970	you exclaim-- have we then two sorts of blood in our bodies?
6970	you would find yourself dumb;--a serious misfortune, eh?