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
13930Are the great laws of righteousness once more to be fulfilled?
13930Are we as nations soon to come under the rule of that great law of death which is itself but part of the great law of life?
13930Are we to go the way of the older civilizations?
13930He jumped up and said:"Why, what''s the matter?
13930I believe that we have the Cuban Minister here with us to- night?
13930Is it your pleasure, Masters of the University?
13930Is it your pleasure, Reverend Doctors?
13930Is our time of growth drawing to an end?
13930May we not presage that still a third time-- most auspicious of numbers-- he may be called upon to take the reins of government?
13930Or, as the strains mingled, has the new strain dwindled and vanished, from causes as yet obscure?
13930Placetne igitur Venerabili huic Convocationi ut in virum Honorabilem Theodorum Roosevelt Gradus Doctoris in Iure Civili conferatur honoris causa?
13930Placetne vobis, Domini Doctores?
13930Placetne vobis, Magistri?
13930The Bishop of Ely to you is the Bishop of to- day; but I felt like asking him when I met him this morning,"Where is Hereward the Wake?"
13930The question must be, Is the right to prevail?
13930The question must not be merely, Is there to be peace or war?
13930What is the lesson to us to- day?
15487How many policemen inside?
15487But where is the larger life of which she has dreamed so long?
15487Deep down in his heart perhaps-- but who knows what may be deep down in his heart?
15487Has the experience any value?
15487Have we worked out our democracy further in regard to clothes than anything else?
15487If the charity visitor is such a person, why does she pretend to like the poor?
15487If you have nothing to give us, why not let us alone and stop your questionings and investigations?"
15487In moments of indignation the poor have been known to say:"What do you want, anyway?
15487Is it habit or virtue which holds her steady in this course?
15487Of what use is all this striving and perplexity?
15487She says sometimes,"Why must I talk always of getting work and saving money, the things I know nothing about?
15487That life which surrounds and completes the individual and family life?
15487The stern questions are not in regard to personal and family relations, but did ye visit the poor, the criminal, the sick, and did ye feed the hungry?
15487Their eager little heads popped out of the windows full of questioning:"Was it a man or a woman?"
15487They are perhaps the most obvious manifestations of that desire to know, that"What is this?"
15487Why does she not go into business at once?
15487Why should she ignore her father''s need for indulgence, and be unwilling to give him what he so obviously craved?
15487and"Why do you do that?"
31196Are we to be honest for fear of losing heaven if we are dishonest, or( to put it as generously as we may) for fear of displeasing God? 31196 Do you know how many mouths can be fed on an acre of land, or how fast those mouths multiply?
31196Is it to be based on religion?
31196''Send them to be fed elsewhere,''do you say?
31196( Did you see the account of the sales of the Esterhazy jewels the other day?)
31196Again, why should people howl and shriek over the law that the Alliance is now trying to carry out in our land called the Permissive Bill?
31196And that it was expedient also to buy health and knowledge with money, if so purchasable; but not to buy money with_ them_?
31196And this essential land question--"At what point will you stop?"
31196Are you agreed on any single thing you systematically want?
31196But have you?
31196But, hark, again--"Ostentation, parental pride and a host of moral"( immoral?)
31196Can you not, you thousands of English workmen, simply make them a law to yourselves, by practising them?
31196Did you ever hear of anything else so ill- named as the phantom called the"Philosopher''s Stone"?
31196Do you know what it originally meant, and always, in the right use of it, means?
31196Do you observe how the sin of theft is again and again indicated as the chiefly antagonistic one to the law of Christ?
31196Do you think it is only under the lacquered splendors of Westminster,--you working men of England,--that your affairs can be rationally talked over?
31196Do you think the time will ever come for everybody to have_ no_ work and_ all_ wages?
31196Does it not manifest plainly enough that Europeans are also in a measure possessed with that same_ demoniacal spirit like the Japanese_?"
31196Even Carlyle can not tell; then how are we to tell?
31196Grant that one has good food, clothes, lodging, and breathing, is that all the pay one ought to have for one''s work?
31196Have you planned the permanent state which you would wish England to hold, emigrating over her edges, like a full well, constantly?
31196How full would you have her be of people, first?
31196I am at no loss for gardeners either, but what am I to do for greengrocers?
31196I suppose you see that this conclusion is not a little at variance with received notions on political economy?
31196If we could thoroughly understand that time was--_itself_,--would it not be more to the purpose?
31196Is it nothing better, then?
31196Is not this a beatific and beautifully sagacious system for a Celestial Empire, such as that of these British Isles?
31196Less work and more wages, of course; but how much lessening of work do you suppose is possible?
31196Might not you as well have determined that question a little while ago, friend Public?
31196None of them, however, I fancy, as they draw towards death, find that the reverse is true, and that"money is time"?
31196Now, who will deliver us?
31196Or, are we to be honest on speculation, because honesty is the best policy; and to invest in virtue as in an undepreciable stock?"
31196The land question is-- At what point will you resolve to stop?
31196Then, before a lad is put to any trade, why not see what he is naturally fitted for?
31196Voters generally say,''What does this gentleman want in Parliament?
31196What admixture of elements, think you, would avail to obtain so much as decent hearing( how should we then speak of impartial judgment?)
31196Wholesome means of existence and nothing more?
31196Why should I not make a penny with my vote, as well as he does with his in Parliament?''
31196Will you please now read § 22 of''Sesame and Lilies''?
31196You practical English!--will you ever unbar the shutters of your brains, and hang a picture or two in those state- chambers?
31196You think such matters need debating about?
31196and have you considered what is to be done finally with unfeedable mouths?
31196and known what political economy_ was_, before you talked so much about it?
31196and of what sort of people?
31196or would you like to keep some of your lords and landed gentry still, and a few green fields and trees?