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29393Are they not already in the fullest flower, and big and mature as they are ever likely to be?
29393Do they give the service that we need and, in particular, do they give it to the poor?
29393Have they such a power that they can safely charge anything they please for their products?
29393If we cite them all_ seriatim_, what impression shall we get?
29393Is it as though they were licensed by the Government to be the sole makers and vendors of their special wares?
29393Is it possible that anything whatever which these great combinations represent can be nipped in the bud?
29393What are a few of the things that we shall then try to get?
29393Who can estimate the benefit which would come from merely making our Government what it purports to be-- government by the people?
29393Will it make us despair for our future?
29393Will it merely show how badly off we are?
38022Juliet, wilt thou have this false pretence, this profligate in broadcloth, this unpaid tailor''s bill, for thy wedded husband?
38022You believe a woman should have all the rights of a man?
38022According to the old but truthful saying, it is impossible for a man to outwit a shrewd woman; and instead of asking, What can a woman do?
38022And what is the result?
38022But where did it come from?
38022Did it come from the sun, the moon, the earth, or from some exploded planet?
38022It does not matter what a man professes to know, but the question is, what does he know, compared with what he might know?
38022Where can it be commenced, except in our common schools?
38022Where, then, is this all- important work to be commenced?
38022Why is this?
38022or was it generated in the atmosphere?
38022we should ask, What is there a woman can not do?
42985Are changes in the position of the teachers frequent, and if so, what is the reason?
42985Are the Spanish people considered''lazy''by those who know them?
42985Does the teacher inspect the outhouses, and are they built according to specifications from the Department of Sanitation?
42985Gutierrez and Ashford speak as follows:"What if these people were merely innocent victims of a disease, modern only in name?
42985Has the school any magazines or farm papers in its library, and how many homes in the district have any library, or any musical instruments?
42985Have previous teachers actually resided in the community or have they lived in the nearest town?
42985How do the young men and young women spend their leisure time?
42985How does the religious condition affect the community, and what is the attitude of the community toward these matters and toward social affairs?
42985Is the floor of the schoolhouse swept every night, and are foot scrapers and doormats provided?
42985Is the school furnished with a covered water tank, and does it have facilities for washing the hands and face?
42985It has been our experience that when he is asked''Why have you sought our dispensary?''
42985Second.--How is garbage disposed of in the neighborhood; are common drinking cups and the common towel prohibited in the schoolroom?
42985Were those Spaniards who conquered Mexico, Peru, and all South America, who formed so formidable a power in the Middle Ages, a lazy people?
42985What has been the attitude of the previous teachers in the district toward the affairs of the community; how long has each remained in the district?
42985What if the brand placed by the Spaniard, the Englishman, and the Frenchman in olden times upon the_ jíbaro_ of Porto Rico were a bitter injustice?
3540And why should not this"some time"be now, and in Moscow?
3540But I am asked: What do you mean by_ working over them_?
3540But why not hope that every thing will be accomplished?
3540But why not think and hope that more and yet more will be done?
3540How is this to be effected?
3540I already hear the customary remark:"All this is very fine, these are sounding phrases; but do you tell us what to do and how to do it?"
3540If the opinion of the revolutionists is correct, what must be done?
3540Is there not something re- assuring in this?
3540To what do the conservatives point?
3540To what do the revolutionists point?
3540Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell"What to do?"
3540Well, and what of that?
3540What does this census, that is about to be made, mean for us people of Moscow, who are not men of science?
3540What if the Moscow Zaccheuses were to do the same that he did?
3540What must be done?
3540What would he do if he were doing it for the sake of his own undoubted good and the good of others?
3540What would it be if this labor were something really worth their while?
3540Where are such people to be found?
3540Where lies the root of all this?
3540Why not hope that some the people will wake up, and will comprehend that every thing else is a delusion, but that this is the only work in life?
3540Why not think that we shall at last come to apprehend this?
3540Why should we not think and expect that the cells of our society will acquire fresh life and re- invigorate the organism?
3540edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org MOSCOW CENSUS-- FROM"WHAT TO DO?"
36014But do n''t your father and mother sleep on the bed?
36014Do you put anything on?
36014Do you think the missionary would dare to mock me by telling me of God''s love? 36014 Have you got work here?"
36014In your clothes?
36014What are you going to do, then?
36014What can I hope for my bairns,he added,"when they ca n''t get a breath of fresh air without seeing such as yon?"
36014Where are you from?
36014Will the father of your child marry you?
36014Are such woes as these, such absolute savage degradation, the inevitable deposit of the highest Christian civilisation?
36014Are the rich and godly to send missionaries and Bible- women among these masses, and save their own souls by giving the necessary funds?
36014Can nothing be done, shall nothing be done, to wipe out such foul blots from the face of our fair city?
36014Can we wonder?
36014Could he have the face to do it_ here_?"
36014Did the Master declare of these, and the legion of these,"of such is the kingdom of heaven?"
36014How can our sad and sorely- tempted ones escape the snare?
36014Is it greater than the risks people have contentedly run for years in railroads, mines, and cotton?
36014Is it the curse of God''s indignation, or the curse of man''s selfishness, avarice, and neglect, under which those thousands are lying?
36014Is there, indeed, no balm in Gilead-- is there no physician there?
36014Is this the"good ground"on which the gospel seed is to spring up and bear fruit one hundredfold?
36014It is disgraceful, degrading, shameful; and who is to blame?
36014Notes from Paris; or, Why are Frenchmen and Englishmen different?
36014Was ever a more vivid picture of more revolting scenes offered to the reader''s eye than that which the following pages present?
36014What then?
36014Where is this"lapsing"to end?
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?"
1187Let England''s trade go to pot,he says;"what have I to lose?"
1187Accidents?
1187And how do they fare, these creatures born mediocre, whose heritage is neither brains nor brawn nor endurance?
1187And if so, what is it?
1187And when these things have come to pass, what then?
1187Can sufficient capital be accumulated?
1187Can the common man pause long enough from his undermining labors to answer?
1187Can the common man, or the uncommon men who are allied with him, devise such a law?
1187Divers queries arise: What is the maximum of commercial development the world can sustain?
1187For instance, what would happen tomorrow if one hundred thousand tramps should become suddenly inspired with an overmastering desire for work?
1187How far can it be exploited?
1187How much capital is necessary?
1187How, then, does this process of discouragement operate?
1187If there were constant work at good wages for every man, who would harvest the crops?
1187Or have they already devised one?
1187Since to give least for most, and to give most for least, are universally bad, what remains?
1187So what would happen tomorrow if one hundred thousand tramps acted upon this advice and strenuously and indomitably sought work?
1187The inexorable query arises:_ What is the West to do when it has furnished this machinery_?
1187The question arises:_ Whence came this second army of workers to replace the first army_?
1187The question now is, what will be the outcome of the class struggle?
1187The trust?
1187The trust?
1187What do they do?
1187What if my brother be not so strong as I?
1187What men form it?
1187What when my strength failed?
1187What will be the nature of this new and most necessary law of development?
1187Wherefore should he hunger-- he and his sinless little ones?
1187Why are they there?
1187Why should there be one empty belly in all the world, when the work of ten men can feed a hundred?
1187when I should be unable to work shoulder to shoulder with the strong men who were as yet babes unborn?
6885( Martin Mendez, op, cit) Where did this extemporaneous interpreter learn Castilian?
6885In Malacca, with the Portuguese?
6885In the Moluccas?
6885Is n''t there left the fine life of the pirate?
6885Is not this enough?
6885Might this captain, who was greatly feared by all his foes, have been the Rajah Matanda whom the Spaniards afterwards encountered in Tondo in 1570?
6885Moreover,''Why work?''
6885The predisposition exists?
6885They let him ransom himself within seven days, demanding 400 measures( cavanes?)
6885They paid no attention either to cultivating the soil or to fostering industry; and wherefore?
6885To what is this retrogression due?
6885What causes operated to awake this terrible predisposition from its lethargy?
6885What future awaits him who distinguishes himself, him who studies, who rises above the crowd?
6885What has happened?
6885Who is the indolent one in the Manila offices?
6885Why be rich?
6885Why should n''t it?
6885Why?
6885Yet the traveler has been unfair in picking out the governor especially: Why only the governor?
22651And how short could the hours of the universal united workers be made?
22651And what of the future?
22651And what part of my wages ought I to pay in return for the part of the fish that I buy?
22651At what price will he now sell?
22651But is the allotment correct and the reward proportioned by his efforts?
22651But suppose that the consumer, for the things which he himself makes and sells, or for the work which he performs, receives more?
22651But suppose they all do?
22651But what about the purple citizens?
22651But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
22651But what of that?
22651But what?
22651But why not sell the produce at a higher price?
22651By what means and in what stages can social progress be further accelerated?
22651Can such a thing, or anything conceived in its likeness, possibly work?
22651Granted that it is impossible for the state to take over the whole industry of the nation, does that mean that the present inequalities must continue?
22651How could one face a rà © gime in which the everlasting taskmaster held control?
22651How much of the fish is"produced"by each of the people concerned?
22651How much will this be?
22651How, then, are we to explain this extraordinary discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness?
22651Idleness and slovenly, careless work will be forbidden?
22651If we shelter_ one_ what is that?
22651Is it fair or unfair, and does it stand for the true measure of social justice?
22651Is it wealth or is it poverty?
22651It is not in itself fallacious; how could it be?
22651Now let me ask in the name of sanity where are such officials to be found?
22651Of the poor what is there to say?
22651One naturally asks, then, To what extent can social reform penetrate into the ordinary operation of industry itself?
22651Or what if I do not fish at all, but get my roast fish by paying for it a part of the wages I receive for working in a saw mill?
22651The point is,_ can_ we make a better one or must we be content with patching up the old one?
22651What else can we do?
22651What is the meaning of it?
22651What is_ quantity_ of labor and how is it measured?
22651What then?
22651What then?
22651What, for example, will be the absolute maximum to which wages in general could be forced?
22651Why should one factory owner not pay ten dollars a day to his hands?
22651Why should they not dawdle at their labor sitting upon the fence in endless colloquy while the harvest rots upon the stalk?
22651Why should they turn up on time for their task?
22651Why should they work, their pay is there"fresh and fresh"?
22651Will they work, or will they lie round in their purple garments and loaf?
22651Work?
46025, and that companion gem,What''s the use?".
46025How much money have you?
46025Now, do you see that tight, brick house down there beyond?
46025Shame, ai n''t it?
46025Then how did you get it?
46025Truant officers? 46025 Where do you suppose they''ll bring up?"
46025Who give it? 46025 Wo n''t you tell me,"I asked,"who gave this park to Painter''s Row?"
46025Ai n''t the Juvenile Court no way of catching the mother?
46025Any typhoid?
46025As a venture you suggest cows?
46025But the city must grow beyond that congested triangle, and why should not the company''s policy grow as well?
46025But the name,----?"
46025Can he get it?
46025Can you picture the effect on the mother of such a home, the overwork for her, the brief possibility of rest when the babies come?
46025Do you wish to see the housing problem?
46025Early?
46025How shall the school, called into existence by society for its own service and protection, most effectively educate the formers of the"New Society"?
46025I said:''What are you doing here?
46025In considering the transit needs of the future, the first question to ask is, perhaps, does Pittsburgh really need more rapid transit?
46025Is this good public policy toward the ambitious workman who is unfortunate enough not to live within the favored zone?
46025It is fair to ask, why even immigrant laborers put up with such conditions?
46025Little Jim church they called it, Queer name for a church, was n''t it?
46025Outside of the crowded tenement rooms where are the many children to play?
46025SAVINGS BANK LEGISLATION: WHAT IS NEEDED?
46025The air?
46025Under such conditions, when a consumptive coughs, who is safe?
46025Was it not time for it to stop?
46025What are they?"
46025What can the Health Bureau, the officially constituted army of defence, do to remedy this condition?
46025What is Pittsburgh going to do about it?
46025Why do n''t you mind the authorities?''
46025[ Illustration] With what result?
46025alleviate such a status?
32405And now, methinks, I hear some over- squeamish ladies cry, What would this fellow be at?
32405And to what a height may even a small beginning grow in time?
32405And what can a poor creature do, in terror of his life, surrounded by a pack of ruffians, and no assistance near?
32405And what is worse, no soul to appeal to but merciless creatures, who answer but in laughter, surliness, contradiction, and too often stripes?
32405And what reason have we but to hope we may vie with any neighbouring nations?
32405As to a fixed bell, if the watchman is at another part of his walk, how can he give notice?
32405How long it has lain there, and what interest has been made upon it?
32405How many gentlemen pass their lives in a shameful indolence, who might employ themselves to the purpose, were such a design set on foot?
32405How many youths, of all ranks, are daily ruined?
32405I. whether there is not money sufficient in the chamber of London to pay off the orphan''s fund?
32405If there are not considerable arrears due from many wards, and what those arrears are?
32405Is it not enough to make any one mad to be suddenly clapped up, stripped, whipped, ill- fed, and worse used?
32405Is it not time to fix them, when they stroll from place to place, and we are hardly sure of a servant a month together?
32405Is it not time to limit their wages, when they are grown so wanton they know not what to ask?
32405It is true we ought to have those places in reverence for the many learned men they have sent us; but why must we go so far for knowledge?
32405Now should anybody ask how shall this hospital be built?
32405Now, when they are enabled to exhibit an opera, will they not gain considerably when their voices and hands cost them only a college subsistence?
32405Or if not a sufficient sum, what sum it is, and what is the deficiency?
32405To have no reason assigned for such treatment, no crime alleged, or accusers to confront?
32405What a figure might this man have made in life, had due care been taken?
32405What a fine provision may here be made for numbers of ingenious gentlemen now unpreferred?
32405What a number of excellent performers on all instruments have sprung up in England within these few years?
32405What benefits may we not in time expect from so glorious a design?
32405What will not such a design produce in a few years?
32405Where is the courage of the English nation, that a gentleman, with six or seven servants, shall be robbed by one single highwayman?
32405Who are these poor orphans we pay so much money to?
32405Who can deny when you become suitors?
32405Why are not facts advanced, they will be apt to say, to give a face of truth to these assertions?
32405Why should such a metropolis as London be without an university?
32405Will not London become the scene of science?
32405Will they not be able to perform a concert, choir, or opera, or all three, among themselves, and overpay the charge, as shall hereafter be specified?
32405Would it not add to the lustre of our state, and cultivate politeness among us?
32405Would it not save considerably the expense we are at in sending our young gentlemen so far from London?
32405and how justly may be dreaded the loss of as many more, if a speedy stop be not put to this growing evil?
32405and who knows but at your request a bill may be brought into the house to regulate these abuses?
32405how endowed?
32405what are the exploded murders to those which escape the eye of the magistrate, and die in silence?
32405who would be afraid of sinning, if they can so easily get rid of their bastards?
32405would not he set up a nursery for lewdness, and encourage fornication?
18603But would those persons have been able to come together, organize themselves, and earn what they did earn without him?
18603Can democracy develop itself and at the same time curb plutocracy?
18603Can we all reach that standard by wishing for it?
18603Can we all vote it to each other?
18603For A to sit down and think, What shall I do?
18603He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?
18603How can we get bad legislators to pass a law which shall hinder bad legislators from passing a bad law?
18603How did they acquire the right to demand that others should solve their world- problems for them?
18603How has the change been brought about?
18603I once heard a little boy of four years say to his mother,"Why is not this pencil mine now?
18603If any man is not in the front rank, although he has done his best, how can he be advanced at all?
18603If charters have been given which confer undue powers, who gave them?
18603If the question is one of degree only, and it is right to be rich up to a certain point and wrong to be richer, how shall we find the point?
18603If there were such things as natural rights, the question would arise, Against whom are they good?
18603If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object?
18603If, then, the question is raised, What ought the State to do for labor, for trade, for manufactures, for the poor, for the learned professions?
18603Is it mean to be a capitalist?
18603Is it wicked to be rich?
18603Now, who is the victim?
18603The amateurs in social science always ask: What shall we do?
18603The pressure all comes on C. The question then arises, Who is C?
18603The problem itself seems to be, How shall the latter be made as comfortable as the former?
18603Then the only question is, Who shall have it?--the man who has the ownership by prescription, or some or all others?
18603Then the question which remains is, What ought Some- of- us to do for Others- of- us?
18603What is the other industry?
18603What shall we do for Neighbor B?
18603What shall we do with Neighbor A?
18603What shall we make Neighbor A do for Neighbor B?
18603What, now, is the reason why we should help each other?
18603When did he ever get the benefit of any of the numberless efforts in his behalf?
18603Where in all this is liberty?
18603Who are the others?
18603Who are they who are held to consider and solve all questions, and how did they fall under this duty?
18603Who dares say that he is not the friend of the poor man?
18603Who dares say that he is the friend of the employer?
18603Who ever saw him?
18603Who has the corresponding obligation to satisfy these rights?
18603Who is he?
18603Who is the other man?
18603Why, then, bring State regulation into the discussion simply in order to throw it out again?
18603Will any one allow such observations to blind them to the true significance of the change?
18603Will any one deny that individual black men may seem worse off?
18603Will any one say that the black men have not gained?
18603Yet where is he?
18603Yet who is there whom the statesman, economist, and social philosopher ought to think of before this man?
18603etc., etc.--that is, for a class or an interest-- it is really the question, What ought All- of- us to do for Some- of- us?
18603or, What do social classes owe to each other?
36489Why not get up a subscription at this hotel?
36489Why this dirt?
36489And our young women?
36489And what is the substance and sum of this fundamental agreement?
36489Are they glad?
36489Are they happy?
36489But how is it with the tribute which Europe levies upon us in the shape of our sons and daughters?
36489Can I put this foot forward, or lift this hand to my head?
36489Can I sit?
36489Can I walk?
36489Can we be quick enough with our schools, just enough in our government, sincere and devout enough in our churches?
36489Do not these_ illicebræ_ seduce, to- day, even the stern heart of philosophy?
36489Do some of you remember the shipwreck, some twenty years ago, of a steamer homeward- bound from California?
36489Do we not desire wealth for our children as the condition which shall set our minds at rest concerning them?
36489Does society inherit?
36489Does this encyclical tendency in the familiar æsthetics of life imply a corresponding tendency in the moral and intellectual movement of mankind?
36489From all these Western splendors can this shallow soul turn away?
36489From these golden fields whose overflow gives Europe food, while her human overflow gives them labor?
36489How if the perfect unity were only attainable through the freedom of the natural diversity?
36489How if this unity prove to be the law of which the oppositions are but one clause?
36489How shall I speak of it, and tell you what it has taught me?
36489How shall it be in our country, to which Nature has given the widest variety of climate, soil, and production?
36489I am no prophet, and, least of all, a prophet of evil; but where, oh where, shall we find the antidote to this metallic poison?
36489IS THAT ALL?
36489Is man the heir of man?
36489Is the sense of the unity lost in consequence?
36489It is the best in the series so far, except in construction, in which''Is That All?''
36489Oh, World, so full of corruption and of slavery, wilt thou not rather bind us with thy gangrenous fetters?
36489Shall we become a lesson to the world in the opposite direction?
36489Shall we not find them recorded as donors to many a noble charity, as students in many a lofty school?
36489Was Franklin raw?
36489Was Washington crude?
36489Was it a naïve utterance on their part?
36489Was it through their poverty of expression, or their want of experience, that the same word with them signified the good and the beautiful?
36489Were Jay, Jefferson, and Hamilton immature?
36489What ancient strongholds of taste, sentiment, and prejudice has it not stormed and carried?
36489What feature of society has not changed in the phantasmagoria of these wonderful lustres?
36489What is the problem of modern society?
36489What was her offence against society?
36489What will America do with the people?
36489What will Europe do with the ideas?
36489Where is God''s image in this human brute who lands on our shores, full only of the insolence of beggary?
36489Where shall I find society for you?
36489Which of these conceals the condition of our true happiness?
36489Who are you?
36489Wilt not the wail of thy old injustice and suffering prolong itself until the new strophe of hope shall be lost and forgotten?
36489Would not our vegetarian chief send for them?
36489Would she not find, even among Brook farmers, a looking toward Beacon Street which might surprise her?
36489Yet are we not compelled by sympathy and antipathy, at the bottom of our hearts, to pay it an homage which our lips would not avow?
36489to the groves of Academe?
19229A certain lack of solitude there may be perhaps, and-- Will conspicuous advertisements play any part in the landscape?...
19229And as for the world beyond our urban regions?
19229And how will the New Republic treat the inferior races?
19229And upon that assumption, in what direction are these new motor vehicles likely to develop?
19229But how does this fit into the childless, disunited, and probably shifting_ ménage_ of our second picture?
19229But is it likely that this will remain a rude levy?
19229But is it?
19229But then, on the other hand, does the ordinary monogamic wife do that?
19229But what of the Welsh- speaking Welshman?
19229But why was it not invented?
19229Can the wife in any sort of polygamic arrangement, or a woman of no assured status, attain to the maternal possibilities of the ideal monogamic wife?
19229Charity is in the air, and why should not charming people meet one another?
19229He will echo our question,"Why_ did_ people stand it?"
19229How can capable and active men be expected to live and work between this upper and that nether millstone?
19229How far will that possible diffusion accomplish itself?
19229How is it that the steam locomotive appeared at the time it did, and not earlier in the history of the world?
19229How will it deal with the black?
19229Is Germany to her utmost possibility making capable men?
19229Now, in what direction will matters move?
19229Or is Germany doing no more than cash the promises of those earlier days?
19229Or is it only unprecedented?
19229Our marksmen will snatch at their field- glasses, tremulously anxious,"Is that a white flag or no?...
19229Spanish and Russian are mighty languages, but without a reading public how can they prevail, and what prospect of a reading public has either?
19229Was its appearance then due only to the attainment of a certain necessary degree of public credit, or was it correlated with any other force?
19229What can you expect of them?
19229What else is there?
19229What is the will and purpose that these men of will and purpose will find above and comprehending their own?
19229What life or strength will be left in the old order to prevent this new order beginning?
19229What now are the centripetal forces against which these inducements contend?
19229What of the Basque and the Lithuanian who can speak only his mother tongue?
19229What will have happened?
19229What will these aggregating world- languages be?
19229Why should it be so hopeless to suggest an edition of the"Golden Bough"with footnotes by Mr. Lang and Mr. Fraser''s replies?
19229Why should not men of opposite opinions collaborate in their discussion?
19229Will the resultant of these forces be, as a rule, centripetal or centrifugal?
19229[ 45]_ Is War Now Impossible?_ and see also footnote, p. 210.
19229[ 51] How will the landscape shape itself to the dominant men of the new time and in relation to themselves?
19229and where finally will they take us?
19229how will it deal with the yellow man?
19229how will it tackle that alleged termite in the civilized woodwork, the Jew?
19229how will they react upon the railways?
27518''Ullo, Mrs. Fry,she laughed,"you be''bliged to be fust, then?"
27518A flail?
27518But did n''t the rain stop you this morning?
27518Have n''t been mowing to- day, have you?
27518Oh, is it?
27518Old Who- is- it? 27518 Should n''t you think he could be punished for that?"
27518So- and- So?... 27518 Well, you knows it now, do n''t ye?"
27518Well, you_ be_ a funny little gal,_ ben''t_ ye? 27518 Where can the nest be, then?
27518Where, then, was the mother?
27518''Ow''s your poor wife?...
27518''Where is he now?''
27518After all, who would know by the light of Nature how to go about sweeping a chimney, as they used to do it here, with rope and furzebush dragged down?
27518Albeit any active use of leisure is out of the question, is he therefore debarred from a more tranquil enjoyment?
27518And at that there came a burst of laughter, loudest from the woman, and Mr. Weatherall asked:"Did n''t you never hear that afore?"
27518And what could a child get from it to kindle his enthusiasm for that civilized learning in which, none the less, it all may have its place?
27518Are the seven shillings as a rule enough for so many purposes?
27518Asked_ he_ to come and help me, have ye?
27518But after a day like the coal- carter''s, where is the man that could even begin to refresh himself with the arts, or even the games, of civilization?
27518But how could it go on?
27518But is it to be wondered at if some unlovely features appear in the village character?
27518But who can affirm as much of their household drudgery to- day?
27518Did her jacket need mending?
27518Does it seem a slight thing?
27518En''t it a_ nice mornin''_?"
27518Enjoying this tranquillity, I passed by a man and woman with two children, and heard the man say invitingly:"Shall I carry the basket?"
27518He merely remarked wonderingly:"You would n''t ha''thought it possible he could ha''done it, would ye?"
27518He sits gossiping with his family, but why should the gossip be listless and yawning?
27518His account of the interview went in this way:"''How long since you done this?''
27518How do the people make both ends meet?
27518How else is one to interpret that frequent middle- class outcry against education:"What are we going to do for servants?"
27518I looked with rather changed sentiments, for example, upon the noisome pigsties-- for were they not a survival of a venerable thrift?
27518It sounded a strange reason, for to what better use could strawberries be put?
27518May we, then, conclude that the women are now in a fair way to do well; that nothing has been lost which those middle- class ideas can not make good?
27518On what could they save, out of eight shillings?
27518One day, years ago, an old friend of mine broke out, in his most contemptuous manner,"What d''ye think Master Dash Blank bin up to now?"
27518Or were they in cheerful spirits?
27518Shall we leave the matter there then?
27518That St. George had become King William was natural enough; but what is to be said of changing the Turkish Knight into the Turkey Snipe?
27518That miserly"thrift"which is preached to them as the whole duty of"the Poor"--what attractions can it have for their human nature?
27518That they must make it in kindly temper, too, is obvious; for who would take part in it to be usually annoyed?
27518The nature of their work, shall I say, tends to bring them to quietness of soul?
27518They can''ave their drink at''ome, and their music, but where be we to go to if they shuts up the''ouses?"
27518To what should it be attributed-- this power of facing poverty with contentment?
27518Up in that nut?
27518Was the social atmosphere after all anything but a creation of my own dreams?
27518Was the village life really idyllic?
27518Well, I dunno about_ Monday_--if Tuesday''d suit ye as well?
27518Were they poor, or ill?
27518What is the worth to a labourer of the crops he grows in his garden?
27518What is this last?
27518What should they want of leisure?
27518What was the matter?
27518Who taught him?
27518Why should not he, to say nothing of his relations, enjoy the refreshment of talk enlivened by the play of pleasant and varied thoughts?
27518Why should she have her livin''took away like that, poor old gal?...
27518Why, so they were; and what more could be said?
27518With like disadvantages, where are there any other people in the country who would do so bravely?
27518Yet this has become such a by- word as to be usually stated with a smile; for is it not an old acquaintance amongst opinions?
27518or almost, but not quite enough?
27518or how else the grudging attitude taken up towards the few comforts that cottage people are able to enjoy?
27518or how to scour out a watertank effectively?
27518or nothing like enough?
27518or where to begin upon cleaning a pigstye?
27518to which the surly tones of a man replied:"''Ten''t no longer than''twas, is it?"
46029And the other boy,I said,"does he go right on doing the same work?"
46029And what has become of the mother?
46029And you can not talk English?
46029Do n''t you know that you ought to learn English that you may know we have laws and ordinances which must be obeyed?
46029How can they,he said,"when they think of his social theories?
46029How talk of love, of family life, in a society which deals out the same ration to the single man and to the father of a family?
46029Is the church accomplishing the desired end toward the masses?
46029Just look at one another,--hey?
46029Rich? 46029 Tell me, how can a man get any pleasure out of life working that way?"
46029Well,I said,"how about your sons?
46029What were we to do at home?
46029Where are your Irish? 46029 Why do you keep all these people?"
46029Why, what else could I do?
46029Are the conditions under which some of this work is carried on directly inimical to health?
46029Are the risks which the law supposes that the workman assumes when he hires out for wages, fair risks under modern conditions of production?
46029At a meeting last fall in his church, the following subjects were discussed:"What is the influence of the Sunday School on the children?"
46029But as many a man said to me,"Oh what''s the use of a library when a man works twelve hours a day?"
46029But then,"--with a smile,"what can you do about it?"
46029But who was to blame?
46029Can not engineers, foremen, employers and workmen come together in a campaign to reduce accidents?
46029Can not this be done in Pittsburgh?
46029Could they be bettered without serious loss to the trades and with great gain to the workers?
46029Do you call that a happy home?"
46029Have some got a small bird singing in their hearts whilst their hands grow grimy at the wheel?...
46029How can a man live in Pittsburgh on$ 1.20 a day?"
46029How goes it with them?
46029How long before New York will catch up with Denmark?
46029How much citizenship does Pittsburgh get out of a man who works twelve hours a day seven days a week?
46029How rich?"
46029How stands the case with the hospitals of Pittsburgh?
46029I asked a leader among the Italians,"Why do you settle the serious cases for a few hundred dollars?"
46029If this be so, is it not our privilege and duty to train these peoples of southeastern Europe in the principles of democracy?
46029In the Pittsburgh situation what encouragement is there to the immigrant who seriously wants to get ahead in life?
46029Is it surprising, then, that the children are sent to work at an early age and that many are raised in cramped and dirty quarters?
46029Is the Pennsylvania law fair that exempts the employer from paying anything to the family of a killed alien if that family lives in a foreign country?
46029Is the burden of this loss justly distributed?
46029Or was it the community which had failed to meet him halfway?
46029Shall we stop there?
46029The daily tyranny of hard work in their lives, leaves little time for pondering the unanswerable"Why?"
46029The judge asked him,"How do you like it?"
46029There was fifty of them here with me sixteen years ago and now where are they?
46029Was it the Slav boy?
46029What are the chances of life of the men, women and children living in the one and in the other?
46029What more do we know?
46029What resources of their own have these families to fall back on?
46029What share falls in the long run upon the community itself, in the care of the sick and dependent?
46029What share of the loss is shouldered by the employer?
46029What takes the place of the wages of these bread- winners?
46029What trade equipment do they bring into the work with them?
46029What will remain of them at the end of their lives to prove that they have lived?
46029When I asked,"How do they live?"
46029When the superintendent heard it, he said,"My God, what is the country coming to?
46029Where else does the stranger find opportunity for recreation at his very hand?
46029Will Pittsburgh as a community, as a democratic community, meet that responsibility?
46029Will our friends not give us a plan for teaching our three largest trades, clothing, beer brewing, and sugar refining?
46029Will the industrial communities of the nation, as democratic communities, meet their responsibility?
46029Would it not be fine if this lusty son of a worthy sire, the Red Cross Christmas stamp, were to help get us started again?
46029[ Illustration] The natural question rising in one''s mind is, Why did these great hordes come to America and to Pittsburgh?
46029your Americans?"
46029your Germans?
46029your Welsh?
20936But supposing one does not wish? 20936 One had it to spend"and"what business was it of theirs?"
20936[ 16] But is it hell? 20936 And now a timid and troubled puritanism makes itself heard: Is there no middle way? 20936 And what does Democracy mean? 20936 And who talked of altering things at one stroke? 20936 Are not all the four quarters of the world to- day talking about Democracy? 20936 Are we to be the labour- serfs and the serfage stud- farm of the world? 20936 Are you so wicked as that, and know it? 20936 At this point we may hear a voice from the average heart of Socialism exclaim:How is this?
20936But have we not been the classic land of social democracy, and have we not become that of Radicalism?
20936But is the spiritual condition of an epoch to be determined by material arrangements?
20936But on what, you may ask with scorn, is this thinking nation to live?
20936But was this frivolity?
20936Can we find our way back to its application and significance?
20936Do we take it in the merely negative sense, that one is no longer obliged to put up with things?
20936Do you call that having no castes?
20936For the next decade the question will be, not where is the demand but where is the supply?
20936For what do these qualities, as a whole, betoken?
20936Has the reader followed me through five- and- thirty of these difficult folios in order to arrive in the end at that very everyday term, Spirit?
20936How can there be poor people when there are no more rich?"
20936How far will a new system of education tend to simplify the needs of men and women and to purify their taste?
20936How otherwise shall the outlay of culture be met?
20936In the harbour of the nations is our ship to drift aimlessly while every other knows its course, whether to a near or distant port?
20936Is it possible so to organize the interchange of work that every one who desires intellectual employment can find it?
20936Is that penurious Paradise which we have described, the goal of Germany''s hopes and struggles?
20936Is the voice from the average heart answered?
20936Is this not a confession of faith in materialism?
20936It is ignorant, it is insincere, to put on a frown of offended virtue and to say: For shame, what are you thronging into the towns for?
20936It replies:"Heritable or not, what do we care?
20936It was not always so?
20936May not he be the very one who is most capable of achievement?
20936One man must have many at his disposal; but how can he, if they are all his equals?
20936Or in the meagre sense, that responsibility goes by favour, and that the majority must decide?
20936Or the dubious sense, that we are yearning to make our way through a sham Socialism to the Dollar Republic?
20936Or-- is there then an"or"?
20936Revolution against revolution-- how is this possible?
20936Similarly he is incapable of civilizing, for he can not take forms seriously; he violates them himself-- how can he impose them upon others?
20936THE NEW SOCIETY I Is there any sign or criterion by which we can tell that a human society has been completely socialized?
20936The outlay will be large, but it must be feasible; how can it, if the labour of thousands is not cheap?
20936Was all this a delusion?
20936We have just begun to shake off the yoke of the capitalists and now are we expected to put the cultured in command?
20936What is romance in history?
20936What was the meaning of your everlasting talk about the ladder for the rise of capacity?
20936Where is the thought of Germany?
20936Where is your thought?
20936Where was this heaven- nurtured priestly virtue sleeping when Wrong straddled the land and the great crime was wrought?
20936Who will then care for far- off deductions, for wide arcs of thought?
20936Why did not envy destroy America and England?
20936Why is not the negro republic of Liberia ahead of all of us?
20936Will not half- measures suffice?
20936With all its wisdom, will it not be reduced to beggary and starvation?
20936You are not pleased with this interpretation?
20936You imagine, do you not, that in a land where there are no more rich people there will also be no more poor?
20936[ 25] Is there any term in commoner use, and what are we to think about it?
20936or so stupid, and know it not?
22241But what does our national man- power turn on?
22241But what of it?
22241But why?
22241Get one hundred thousand picked men together and what can they not do, what ideas can they not carry out?
22241Get through to each woman and each child that something must be given up by each of us to defeat the Germans?
22241How can I belong?
22241How could our Government get through to each man in America that winning the war depended on him?
22241How much time would a national Club like this save this nation to- day and from now on in its race with the Germans?
22241I would say,"Do you see better or worse as you turn it to the right?"
22241Is this Democracy?
22241It really does for all practical purposes of course, but how can he make it look so?
22241The Air Line League is here to ask, Why should not the consumer represent himself?
22241This book is not an attempt to answer the question,"What is day after to- morrow''s news?"
22241We will do something that will make them-- capital and labor-- say:"What do you mean?"
22241What are the causes and the remedies people in general can look up and have the benefit of?
22241What can I manage to accomplish alone in trying to get to Chicago to- morrow morning?
22241What can the man in the White House hope to accomplish for a people with whom it is the constitutional and regular thing to be as lonely as this?
22241What determines what proportion of his right to be waited on, each man shall have?
22241What determines what proportion of his right to live, each man shall have?
22241What determines what proportion of his right to think, each man shall have?
22241What do I get-- what does the Club do for me?
22241What do I undertake to do for the Club?
22241What do we wish we could believe is the fact?
22241What does a man when he joins the Look- Up Club, undertake to do?
22241What does anyone suppose would happen?
22241What does it cost?
22241What is it that is scaring capital and labor away and holding back money and men?
22241What is the fact?
22241What shall the new President believe about the people and expect of the people?
22241What shall the new people-- people made new by this war, expect of themselves and expect of their new President?
22241What will we do, what ideas will we carry out?
22241Who are Mr. Doe''s employers?
22241Who are the people whose words Mr. Doe would hang on and would be obliged to hang on?
22241Who are the ten, twenty or fifty men of practical vision in business-- especially young men, you think ought not to be left out?"
22241Who asked him to?
22241Who can get Mr. Doe''s attention?
22241Who would have believed it or who can forgive it?...
22241Why does n''t he do it?
22241Why fine the readers of the_ Review of Reviews_ or_ Collier''s_ or_ Scribner''s_ for living in one place rather than another?
22241Why is it that Mr. Burleson charges us a thousand dollars apiece, in our own private business, to save us fifty cents apiece in public?
22241Why is it that Mr. Doe has so little difficulty in getting theirs?
22241Why is it that Mr. Doe''s employees do not succeed in getting Mr. Doe''s attention?
22241Why is it that Mr. Doe''s employees, when he speaks of the two pairs of shoes a year, hang on his words?
22241Why should I have two- thirds of a second?
30432Again, can we be said to be free, can we be said to be in harmony with Nature, while we endure the bonds of matrimony? 30432 But for what should he call?
30432But is it men who attain? 30432 1789, 1830, 1848--are these dates branded upon our hearts, only to stamp us as patient sheep in the flock of bureaucracy? 30432 A collectivist state, it is true, might establish and endow academies; but would it ever produce a Shakespeare or a Michelangelo? 30432 And if liberty be taken on its own merits, how is it to be distinguished from anarchy? 30432 And is he prepared to stake society upon his faith? 30432 And meantime what cause is there for misgiving? 30432 And the cuckoo sings, and the blackbird, do you not hear them? 30432 And the question is, Do we trust the people? 30432 And what more can be said? 30432 And while these flourish, where is liberty? 30432 And why? 30432 And why? 30432 And, in any case, how could they understand, even with the best will in the world, the multifarious interests they are expected to control? 30432 And, that admitted, must we not descend from the mountain- top of prophecy to the dreary plains of political compromise?
30432Are these hands not yours that fasten the knots?
30432But abandonment to what?
30432But anyhow, even granting that we could make things a bit better, what would be the use of doing it in a world like this?
30432But if nature be no goddess, how can we accept her as sponsor for liberty?
30432But if one denies both propositions, what happens to the superstructure?
30432But if they are n''t, what becomes of all your aims, all your views, all your problems and disputes?
30432But what is the value of work if there''s nothing worth working for?
30432But when it does come out it''s always the same refrain,''cui bono, cui bono?''
30432But where shall the champion be found fit to wield that weapon?
30432But while that shirt clings close to every limb, what avails it, in the name of liberty, to snap, here and there, a button or a lace?
30432But who shall say whether it is more than a dream?
30432But you want to know why?
30432Can it be believed that the result would be satisfactory?
30432Charity without an object?
30432Criticism would have arrested the course of these men; but would the world have been the worse?
30432Do I, for instance, look like a Marat or a Danton?
30432Does anyone, does MacCarthy really, in a calm moment, believe all this?
30432Does it not rather make it worse, if the order is such as to produce evil?
30432For Christian?
30432For Pagan?
30432For if men, were it not for government, might be living in the garden of Eden, how comes it that they ever emerged from that paradise?
30432For what profits justice unless it be the step to the throne of Olympus?
30432For who are we that we should say to this man or that, go plough, keep shop, or govern the state?
30432Granting then, that there were order in the universe, how does that make it any better?
30432Has our friend, then, no power to dissolve the charm?
30432How could it be, unless it were based upon a sound, intellectual foundation?
30432How should it?
30432How should they foster it?
30432How, but by the due admixture of coercion?
30432I once asked an American who had been describing to me the scheme of his laborious life, where it was that the fun came in?
30432I wanted to say-- what was it?
30432If the whole structure of the universe is bad, what''s the good of fiddling with the details?
30432If they are asked by Europeans, as they sometimes are, what is the point of going so fast?
30432Is his service, then, but half- hearted after all?
30432Is it I?
30432Is it you?
30432Is not a government office everywhere synonymous with incapacity and sloth?
30432Is not the very word''politician''everywhere a term of reproach?
30432Is this Nature?
30432Is this liberty?
30432It might engender and foster religious orthodoxy; but would it have a place for the reformer or the saint?
30432Money?
30432Or Man?
30432Or are even we here impressed by such silly and irrelevant facts as telephones and motor- cars?
30432Or not even he, but God?
30432Or, can it be that he has not the will?
30432Or, can it be, that behind the mask of the goddess he begins to divine the teeth and claws of the brute?
30432Or, if they do, turn at once away to construct some other kind of world?
30432Reputation?
30432Success?
30432That we should say to the merchant,''thus much power shall be yours,''and to the farmer,''thus much yours?''
30432The real question is, What extraordinary, fascinating, tragic or comic life went to produce this precious specimen?
30432Then, in his slow, deliberate way, he began as follows:"Why I went into politics?
30432To the Middle Ages?
30432To the modern world?
30432Were they not the result of just such a movement as I describe?
30432What are my opinions, what are Remenham''s?
30432What are they?
30432What do they recognize as an end?
30432What else is a nation but an assemblage of the talents, the capacities, the virtues of the citizens of whom it is composed?
30432What new revelation does it give of the possibilities of the world?
30432What profit Faith and Hope without a goal?
30432What should I trust, if I could not trust them?
30432What, then, is their own?
30432Where is it then?
30432Where then will you turn?
30432While we fetter the happy promiscuity of instinct, and subject our roving fancy to the dominion of''one unchanging wife?''
30432Who is he that with sacrilegious hands would seize our Ariel and prison him in that tree of iniquity the State?
30432Who, under these circumstances is mad?
30432Why did I?
30432Why do you fear for your property and lives, you who fear anarchy?
30432Why is the teaching of the classics now discredited among you?
30432Why should not the appearance of order be but one caprice the more, or even a crowning device of calculated malice?
30432Why should they, unless it is to their interest?
30432Why then do you fear?
30432Why, then, is it that men refuse to look them in the face?
30432Why, then, should we strive and cry, even now in the twilight hour?
30432Why?
30432You will say that this is impracticable; but why?
20125But is n''t it fine, and worth having, and are n''t you glad it was written?
20125Johnny, did you throw chalk at Jimmy?
20125What is it?
20125What is the explanation of Wisconsin?
20125Why has it been able to eliminate corruption, machine politics, and rid itself of the boss? 20125 ***** A great deal of political theory has been devoted to asking: what is the aim of government? 20125 Along what lines is investigation most needed? 20125 And if the only way he can free himself is by adultery, does not your stringent divorce law put a premium upon vice? 20125 And in the name of equality what fantasies of taxation have we not woven? 20125 And indeed, why should n''t he? 20125 And that he has spoken well, who in the perspective of time will deny? 20125 And what part of mankind did it neglect? 20125 And when a man comes to write about his philosophy he is confronted with a choice: shall the creed described be that of Marx or of the Marxians? 20125 And where are the open questions: the issues that everybody should consider, the problems that scientists should study? 20125 And where would the money have come from? 20125 And why? 20125 And yet who more than they are likely to find desire uncontrollable and seek some othermethod of expression"?
20125Are we not accustomed in daily life to recognizing that the reality differs very greatly from the ideas of it that we made before we acted?
20125Are we perhaps like a child whose hand is too small to span an octave on the piano?
20125But how among countless suggestions is a"cause"to know the difference between a true invention and a pipe- dream?
20125But how is the question to be solved?
20125But if the issue is not between honesty and dishonesty, where is it?
20125But in the depths of his soul there is, I suspect, some feeling which says to the politician,"Why so hot, my little sir?"
20125But is it the only possible expression?
20125But their proposals would require big changes in property interests, and would that be"reasonable and practical"?
20125But what of those who are forbidden to marry?
20125But where does the difficulty of divorce affect the causes of it?
20125Can they now?"
20125Confronted with the deep insurgency of labor what do capitalists and their spokesmen do?
20125Did he not announce from the platform at Chicago--"we stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord"?
20125Did not E. H. Harriman say of a well- known statistician that he could make an annual report tell any story you pleased?
20125Did not the Communist Manifesto appear many years before"Das Kapital"?
20125Did not the French Revolution mean the conquest of the feudal landlord by the middle- class merchant?
20125Does the degree and direction of the instinct markedly differ among different individuals or races, or between the two sexes?"
20125For all the other seekings of that impulse what has the Commission to offer?
20125For where in the report is any thorough discussion by sociologists of the relations of business and marriage to vice?
20125Have the irreconcilables a soul audacious and less blunted than our domesticated ones?
20125Having read a number of articles on the tariff and ploughed through the metaphysics of the currency question, what do they do?
20125How does the recommendation of a stringent and uniform law fit in with these three statements?
20125How many of these recommendations see sex as an instinct which can be transmuted, and turned into one of the values of life?
20125How much of this really seeks to create a fine expression of the sexual impulse?
20125If a recall election is held when the people petition for it, why not all elections?
20125If lust will seek an expression, are all expressions of it necessarily evil?
20125If men find statecraft uninteresting, may it not be that statecraft_ is_ uninteresting?
20125If you bind a man tightly to a woman he does not love, and, possibly prevent him from marrying one he does love, how do you add to his virtue?
20125If you really represented the country in its government, would you not get its partisanship in a quintessential form?
20125If you wanted to educate a child, would you teach him to read one play of Shakespeare, or would you teach him to_ read_?
20125In the supremely important subject of literacy, what classification yet devised can weigh the culture of masses of people?
20125Is civilization perhaps too tightly organized?
20125Is it asking too much of a statesman if we expect him to know political theory and to balance it with the facts he sees?
20125Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country?
20125Is it possible that Republicans, Democrats and Socialists clip the wings more than free spirits can allow?
20125Is this not a contributing factor to the futility and opacity of our political thinking?
20125May not this constant dodging or hurdling of statutes be a sign that there is something the matter with the statutes?
20125Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured?
20125Suppose we recognize that creeds are instruments of the will, how would it alter the character of our thinking?
20125The Commission was n''t afraid of details: did n''t it recommend searchlights in the parks as a weapon against vice?
20125The discussion turned principally on two points: were rent, interest and dividends_ earned_?
20125The statesman would ask, Why are there syndicalists?
20125They could, but will they?
20125To put it mildly, is it ever safe to ignore them entirely in our thinking?
20125To what problems, what issues, shall we give our attention?
20125To- day women want-- what?
20125Was collective ownership of capital a feasible scheme?
20125Well may Mr. Hobson inquire,_"Now, what provision is made for generating the motor power of progress in Collectivism?
20125Were the single- taxers, the Socialists consulted?
20125What are they driving at?
20125What did the Commission have in mind?
20125What did this nation do with it?
20125What energies did it transmute?
20125What gift to civilization is in the impetus behind them?
20125What if political methods existed in the realm of business?
20125What insight into reality can a man possess who is capable of discussing politics and ignoring politicians?
20125What is more natural than that they should be the Ultimate Watchers?
20125What is the cause of the efficiency, the thoroughness, the desire to serve which animate the state?
20125What is the debatable ground in this territory?
20125What is there left but to gasp and wonder whether the words of the intellect have anything to do with the facts of life?
20125What kind of naïvetà © was it that led this educator into asking such a question?
20125What matters the method, he will cry, provided the reform be good?
20125What needs did it answer?
20125What reality could there be in comments upon American politics which ignored the colossal phenomenon of Roosevelt?
20125What shall we call an idea, objectively untrue, but practically of the highest importance?
20125What stands between Chicago and civilization?
20125What then shall we do now?
20125What was the result?
20125When a judge sets out to"interpret"the Constitution, what is it that he does?
20125Where are the detailed proposals by specialists, for decent housing and working conditions, for educational reform, for play facilities?
20125Where are the doubts that should have honored these investigations, the frank statement of all the gaps in knowledge, and the obscurities in morals?
20125Where did it begin to do violence to human nature?
20125Where has it helped them, where hindered?
20125Where there is no choice, of what importance is opinion?
20125Who has not known this in thinking of politics?
20125Why are the sexual problems not even stated?
20125Why has Wisconsin succeeded where other states have uniformly failed?
20125Why not abolish all the devil''s works?
20125Why should not the Social Revolution mean the victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie?
20125Why then is n''t there a budget, a large, comprehensive budget, precise and informing, in which provision is made for beginning to civilize Chicago?
20125Why then were we not taken into their confidence?
20125Why?
20125Why?
20125With such a history how could a nation fail to see in its constitution anything but a tool of life, like the axe, the spade or the plough?
20125Would not our legislatures be cut up into antagonistic parties, would not the conflicts of the nation be concentrated into one heated hall?
20125Would the session not become an interminable wrangle?
20125Yet who does not feel its isolation in that brutal city?
20125he protested,"it is n''t criticism for it''s half rhapsody; it is n''t rhapsody because it is analytical.... What is it?
20125what travesties of justice set up?
28315All right,I said,"what do you think you can do?"
28315All we have?
28315And the kind we''ve always had?
28315And we''d be one out of a thousand if we did n''t make good, would n''t we?
28315And why do they?
28315And you have enough left over to put up a house?
28315Are you doing anything to remedy it?
28315Are you going far?
28315But look here,I said;"what''s the good of a raise if we do n''t use it?"
28315But what are you going to do now?
28315Carleton,he said,"what''s the matter?"
28315Children in school?
28315Did n''t you find the things I laid out for you?
28315Do you know what one fellow in our class makes right through the year?
28315Do you want me to put on a high collar?
28315Do_ you_ know?
28315Eh?
28315Emigrate?
28315Ha Ella il di Lei pane?
28315Ha Ella il mio zucchero?
28315Have they been talking about you?
28315Have you been to the rallies and met the men and studied their methods?
28315Have you shaved?
28315How do they, Billy?
28315How do you know that?
28315How have they?
28315How much?
28315How old are you, Murphy?
28315I''ll do it, Billy,she said bravely,"but ca n''t we wait a day or two before deciding?
28315Let me see, you went off to Australia or somewhere, did n''t you, Carleton?
28315Matter with it? 28315 No, Billy,"she said, with a sigh,"there is n''t, is there?"
28315Oh, Billy,she cried,"it''s good news?"
28315Old, sor?
28315Phot do yez mane?
28315Phot''s the mather with Sweeney, now?
28315Sure you can do that?
28315Then what are you going to do about it?
28315Then you resign?
28315Then,I said,"why not educate the young politicians?
28315There are so many beautiful things,he used to exclaim excitedly in broken English;"why should they want to make anything that is not beautiful?"
28315Well, Billy,she said,"it ca n''t be helped, can it?
28315Well,I said,"what do you think of him?"
28315Well?
28315What about the other party?
28315What do the boys round here do in the summer?
28315What do they do?
28315What do you make on a paper?
28315What do you mean?
28315What of the boy?
28315What would he do here?
28315What''s his business?
28315What''s the good of a raise if we spend it?
28315What''s the matter with it?
28315What''s the matter with selling papers?
28315What''s the matter?
28315What_ can_ you do?
28315Where did you get this?
28315Where shall we address you?
28315Where then, Billy?
28315Where to?
28315Who ordered you out of there?
28315Why do n''t you bring him in here?
28315Why do they? 28315 Why do they?"
28315Why the poor little thing--"What poor little thing?
28315Will they?
28315With steak thirty cents a pound?
28315Would you?
28315You are n''t fired?
28315You came to America broke?
28315You do n''t mean to tell me you''re that much ahead of the game the first week?
28315You have a wife and children?
28315You mean city contracts?
28315You mean to tell me that you''re putting up a house?
28315You''re still with the leather firm?
28315You''ve seen the big ships come in along the water- front? 28315 Advantages? 28315 Again and again the question was forced in upon me-- what the devil was I? 28315 And yet what did it amount to? 28315 And yet what was the old stock doing to offset such personal ambition and energy as Rafferty stood for? 28315 At the end of that time two questions were burned into my brain:What can you do?"
28315Billy-- we ca n''t allow a family in the same house with us to suffer like that, can we?"
28315But just what else had this experience made of me?
28315But what could I do?
28315But what did that mean?
28315Do n''t you think I can do it?"
28315Giuseppe would say,"Ha Ella il mio cappello?"
28315God pity the poor?
28315He had one paper in his hand and was offering it, perhaps a bit shyly, to each passer- by with a quiet,"Paper, sir?"
28315However quite apart from this, was n''t Rafferty to- day a better citizen than I?
28315I guess we can squeeze out fifty cents for them, ca n''t we, Billy?"
28315I suppose you''re going west?"
28315I was getting all I wanted to eat, was warm and had a good clean bed to sleep in and what more can a man have even if he''s earning a hundred a week?
28315If he did n''t what would become of his trim little house?
28315Is n''t a man always sure to do some such fool thing as that, when he''s trying to keep something quiet from the wife?
28315It was white of him, was n''t it?
28315Or what drives them into the army or to work on railroads when they neither expect nor hope to be advanced?
28315Ruth listened and then she said:"But is n''t it a pity that the boys_ are_ toughened, Billy?"
28315She cut in excitedly:"Then we''re going out west?"
28315Some of the boys will stand by you, wo n''t they?"
28315Such organization as this was going on in other lines of business, why not in this?
28315That was honest work-- clean work; but if I attempted it would they play golf with me?
28315Then he asked quickly,"Where''s mother?"
28315They showed me their blue prints and their rough estimate and then Mr. Corkery said:"How much can you take off that, Carleton?"
28315Was an electric elevator a fair swap for my roof?
28315Was it actually possible that a man could starve in such a community?
28315Was their apartment- house friendship, however polished, worth the simple genuine fellowship I enjoyed among my present neighbors?
28315What could such a life offer me for my soul''s or my body''s good that I did n''t have here?
28315What else did living mean for her?
28315What sort of a job was I going to apply for?
28315What the devil was I, after twenty years of hard work?
28315What was my profession, anyway?
28315What were they?
28315What''s the use of clinging to the notion that a man lives to eat?
28315Where to?"
28315Why ca n''t a man lay bricks without the theatre?
28315Why do n''t you put him into some of those?"
28315Why in Heaven''s name ca n''t they shovel dirt on the same diet?
28315Why not get down to bed rock at once and face the fact that a man does n''t need the bill of fare of a modern hotel or any substitute for it?
28315Why should I not learn this business of contracting and building and some day contract and build for myself?
28315Why should I not take the initiative in some of these progressive enterprises?
28315Why was n''t it like buying and selling anything?
28315Why, in time, should I not become the employer?
28315and"How old are you?"
3630And how old are you?
3630Are your parents alive?
3630But what do you want?
3630He repudiates science and art, he wants to send people back again into a savage state; so what is the use of listening to him and of talking to him?
3630How is this?
3630I will come; why should I not come? 3630 Is it hard?"
3630Is that forbidden?
3630Really? 3630 So they are to be allowed to die of hunger and cold?"
3630Well, but if a place could be found somewhere as cook?
3630Well, how did it turn out? 3630 Well, what then?"
3630What are city life and city poverty? 3630 What do you live on?"
3630What is he doing to the sidewalk?
3630What is to be done?
3630What is your business?
3630What then?
3630What to do? 3630 What, many of them?"
3630Where am I to go?
3630Who knows?
3630Why am I going to gaze on the sufferings of people whom I can not help?
3630Why are you taking care of it?
3630Why is it forbidden here in Moscow to ask alms in Christ''s name?
3630Why not? 3630 Why should they die?
3630Why?
3630--"Well, what of that?
3630After a conflagration, one can warm one''s self, and light one''s pipe with a firebrand; but why declare that the conflagration is beneficial?
3630And I began to reflect: why had this caused me such shame?
3630And I, with the object of benefiting and reclaiming him, had taken him to my house, where he saw-- what?
3630And how about Petersburg and the other cities?"
3630And how about the division of labor?"
3630And how many households are there in Russia alone, do you think?
3630And if not we, who then?
3630And so I have accumulated a great deal of money in that way, and what do I do with it?
3630And such a man will never answer the question,"What is to be done?"
3630And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
3630And this confession of a man''s obligation constitutes the gist of the third answer to the question,"What is to be done?"
3630And what is it necessary for me to do, in order to comply with the requirements imposed upon me by the demands of individual and universal welfare?
3630And what is to be done with the remaining eleven hours?
3630And when the people asked him,"What are we to do?"
3630And why should not this"some time"be now, and in Moscow?
3630And why, above all, take away from the country that which dwellers in the country need,--flour, oats, horses, and cattle?
3630And why, apparently, should art not be of service to the people?
3630And, as we are indebted for all this marvellous progress to the division of labor, why not acknowledge it?
3630And, in fact, how am I to answer the question,"What is to be done?"
3630And, what then?
3630Another man came up, and stumbled over the laundress, and said to the potter:"What drunken woman is this wallowing at your gate?
3630Are not the changes which public opinion is now preparing clear?
3630Are there a million?"
3630Are there many of them there?"
3630Are they to blame?"
3630Are you a self- satisfied rich man who wants to enjoy our wretchedness, to get rid of his tedium, and to torment us still more?
3630As a matter of fact, what is my money, and whence did it come into my possession?
3630Before that time I had not been able to answer the question:"What is to be done?"
3630But I am asked: What do you mean by_ working over them_?
3630But how does this come about?
3630But it has become the fashion with us to say, that"this is so in theory, but how about the practice?"
3630But what can one man do amid a throng which does not agree with him?
3630But what does it mean, that some people and their children toil, while other people and their children do not toil?
3630But what facts?
3630But what have we added to the popular_ bylini_[ the epic songs], legends, tales, songs?
3630But what have we taught them, and what are we now teaching them?
3630But what is it that you have given?
3630But what is to be done?
3630But who is the poor man?
3630But who will make these boots and this calico?
3630But why are some of them caught and locked up somewhere, while others are left alone?
3630But why not hope that every thing will be accomplished?
3630But why not think and hope that more and yet more will be done?
3630But why should we dress ourselves, wash and comb our hair?
3630Do you suppose I like to beg?
3630Does not this peculiar good fortune arise from the fact that man can not and will not see his own hideousness?
3630First of all, in answer to the question,"What is to be done?"
3630For the uninitiated man the question immediately presents itself:"What are you talking about?
3630Get along, what do you mean by it?
3630Had the question then stood as it stands before me now, after I have repented,--"What am I, so corrupt a man, to do?"
3630Have they arrested him?"
3630He said, in a peculiar, scornful, hasty tone, such as is employed towards dogs:"What do you jabber in that careless way for?
3630Hence I think, that the man who will honestly put to himself the question,"What is to be done?"
3630How can a man think it necessary to do so and so, and then do the contrary?
3630How can one help a man who does not disclose his whole condition?
3630How can one take an interest in the proposition of a man, in regard to something absolutely impossible?
3630How can we fail to accept so very beautiful a theory?
3630How did this come to pass?
3630How do the rich order their lives there?
3630How has this happened?
3630How is this to be effected?
3630How, in this fashion, make recompense with that education and those talents, for what I have taken, and for what I still take, from the people?"
3630How, then, can the necessity for burdensome, oppressive toil be more profitable for people?
3630I already hear the customary remark:"All this is very fine, these are sounding phrases; but do you tell us what to do and how to do it?"
3630I am always surprised by the oft- repeated words:"Yes, this is so in theory, but how is it in practice?"
3630I ask him who is he, whence comes he?
3630I asked her,--it puts me to shame, my hand refuses to write it,--I asked her whether it was true that she had nothing to eat?
3630I asked him:"Is it true that the poor are forbidden to ask alms in Christ''s name?"
3630I asked the boy:"And do you live here?"
3630I came near breaking my head over her; take her away, wo n''t you?"
3630I did not comprehend, and again I inquired:"What is your means of livelihood?"
3630I force no one''s inclination: I hire, and what harm is there in that?"
3630I halted and asked the police- officer,"What is it?"
3630I inquired where he came from?
3630I inquired:"For what was this peasant arrested?"
3630I inquired:"Is this your child?"
3630I inquired:"What for?"
3630I inquired:"What is that for?"
3630I often hear the questions of good young men who sympathize with the renunciatory part of my writings, and who ask,"Well, and what then shall I do?
3630If I give to a man who steps in from the street one ruble or twenty kopeks, why should not I give her a ruble also?
3630If the opinion of the revolutionists is correct, what must be done?
3630In all eyes the question was expressed:"Why have you, a man from another world, halted here beside us?
3630In answer to the question, Would not this unaccustomed toil ruin that health which is indispensable in order to render service to the people possible?
3630Is it a bad thing, according to the Gospel, to clothe the naked, and feed the hungry?"
3630Is it necessary to render assistance in that way?
3630Is that alms?
3630Is there not something re- assuring in this?
3630It is very possible that this is so; but still the question remains, Of what nature is that division of labor which I behold in my human society?
3630It was impossible, was it not, to take a child who had lived in a den of iniquity in among my own children?
3630John the Baptist, in answer to the question of the people,--What were they to do?
3630Money does represent labor; but whose?
3630More profitable for whom?
3630One of the boys clad in a great- coat and a visorless cap, heard her words and halted:"What are you scolding about?"
3630Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
3630Other people have begun it, and have wrought mischief; then why should not I take advantage of it?
3630Our position is a very difficult one, but why not look at it squarely?
3630Precisely what to do?"
3630She laughed, and said:"And who would take me in with my yellow ticket?"
3630Surely I can not say,"Why do not you eat hay, when it is the indispensable food?"
3630Surely it is not we who have done this?
3630The man with the sword and pistol gazed sternly at me, and said:"What business is it of yours?"
3630The young man asked a woman"whether she had seen the census- takers?"
3630Then how are our ladies to reform this woman and her daughter?
3630Then how can this be more profitable for men?
3630Then said I: Lord, how long?
3630Then why should I deprive myself of velvet and confections and cigarettes and clean shirts, if things are definitively settled thus?
3630Then, what is the outcome of this?
3630Then, what is to be done?
3630Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
3630These, then, are the answers which I have found for myself to the question,"What is to be done?"
3630They can in no wise solve the problem,"What to do?"
3630They, poor things, have done what is considered right by their elders; but how are their elders to explain away this their cruelty to the people?
3630This assistance had been rendered before my advent, and rendered by whom?
3630This is the lie of which we must not be guilty if we are to be in a position to answer the question:"What is to be done?"
3630This was the case with me; and then another, arising from the first answer to the question:"What is to be done?"
3630To the question,"What is it necessary to do?"
3630To the question,"Who was she?"
3630To the question,"Will it not seem strange to people if you do this?"
3630To what do the conservatives point?
3630To what do the revolutionists point?
3630Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org WHAT TO DO?
3630We have invented telegraphs, telephones, phonographs; but what advances have we effected in the life, in the labor, of the people?
3630Well, and what of that?
3630Well, what will happen if I wear a soiled shirt, and make my own cigarettes?
3630What am I to do, now that I have finished my course in the university, or in some other institution, in order that I may be of use?"
3630What are we to do?
3630What did he really give, and what did I really give?
3630What difference will it make if I wear one shirt a week, and make may own cigarettes, or do not smoke at all?
3630What does property signify?
3630What does that power which has created and which leads me, demand of me and of every man?
3630What does this census, that is about to be made, mean for us people of Moscow, who are not men of science?
3630What except shame could I feel, when I entered into communion with these people?
3630What harm is there in that?
3630What if the Moscow Zaccheuses were to do the same that he did?
3630What is it that I wish in reality?
3630What is the inference?
3630What is the meaning of giving away one garment out of two, and half of one''s food?
3630What is the meaning of this:_ to earn one''s livelihood in the city_?
3630What is there wrong about that?
3630What music, what pictures, have we given to the people?
3630What must be done?
3630What ought I to have given, in order to do what Semyon had done?
3630What should I say when I was asked what I wanted there?
3630What sort of shame was this?
3630What was its nature?
3630What would become of my old valet if I were to discharge him?
3630What would he do if he were doing it for the sake of his own undoubted good and the good of others?
3630What would it be if this labor were something really worth their while?
3630What, in point of fact, is that money which I give to the poor, and which the cook''s wife thought I was giving to her?
3630What, then, was I to do?
3630Where are such people to be found?
3630Where lies the root of all this?
3630Which of us-- man or woman-- will correct her false view of life?
3630Who are you?
3630Who is she?"
3630Who is there that does not know people, especially women, who reckon this cleanliness in themselves as a great virtue?
3630Whom do I injure,--I, the most inoffensive and kindest of men?
3630Why are they such fools as to give birth to children, when they know that there will be nothing for the children to eat?
3630Why did these men toil, while those others begged?
3630Why is it a stupid business to help thousands, at any rate hundreds, of unfortunate beings?
3630Why is mankind an organism, or similar to an organism?"
3630Why is there nothing left of those sciences, and sophists, and Cabalists, and Talmudists, but words, while we are so exceptionally happy?
3630Why not hope that some the people will wake up, and will comprehend that every thing else is a delusion, but that this is the only work in life?
3630Why not think that we shall at last come to apprehend this?
3630Why precisely these facts, and no others?
3630Why should we not think and expect that the cells of our society will acquire fresh life and re- invigorate the organism?
3630Why were there so many of them here?
3630Why, what degree of lunacy can be more frightful than this?
3630Why, when I am living in the city, can not I help the city poor?"
3630Will that make it easier for anybody else?
3630With regard to the question,"Is it necessary to organize this physical labor, to institute an association in the country, on my land?"
3630Yes, but of whose toil?
3630[ Then what are we to do?
3630[ What else could he see in me but one of those persons who have got possession of what belongs to him?
3630and in what did their peculiarity, as opposed to the country poor, consist?
3630and who is not acquainted with the devices of this cleanliness, which know no bounds, when it can command the labor of others?
3630is it that division of labor which should exist?
3630or are you that thing which does not and can not exist,--a man who pities us?"
3630or, What shall we drink?
3630we must all do every thing necessary,--make our clothes and hew wood?
3630what is it?"
3630whither?
3630why do n''t you bring her in?"
3630why should we hand chairs to ladies, to guests?
3630why should we open and shut doors, hand ladies, into carriages, and do a hundred other things which serfs formerly did for us?
3630{ 122a} Who am I, that I should desire to help others?
1140Am I not a horse, and half- brother?
1140And for that, what is the method?
1140I, then, am the Ablest of English attainable Men? 1140 Really, one of the most difficult questions this we have in these times, What to do with our criminals?"
1140Reforming Pope?
1140We can not,say you?
1140What method, then; by what method?
1140What they have done?
1140What to do with our criminals?
1140Work, for you? 1140 _ Ichabod_; is the glory departing from us?
1140_ Quiet_ Anarchy,you exultingly say?
1140--"Gold, so much gold?"
1140--"I''ll thank you for a definition of Justice?"
1140--Are there many such, who will answer to the call, in England?
1140--But can not he reform?
1140--of him what hope is there?
1140--what will become of such a man?
1140A Mrs. Manning"dying game,"--alas, is not that the foiled potentiality of a kind of heroine too?
1140A Parliament of the Paris pattern, such as we see just now, might be extracted: and from that?
1140A divine gift, that?
1140A ration this?"
1140About to break up that huge imposthume too, by''curing''it?
1140Again I ask, Why make an example of me, for your own convenience alone?"
1140An excellent human soul, direct from Heaven,--how shall any excellence of man become recognizable to this unfortunate?
1140And Farmer Hodge sallying forth, on a dry spring morning, with a sieve of oats in his hand, and agony of eager expectation in his heart, is he happy?
1140And alas, if you_ know_ only the eloquent fallacious semblance of the truth, what chance is there of your ever doing it?
1140And if this is so, then surely the question, How these Governments came to sink for_ want_ of intellect?
1140And now by what method ascertain the monition of the gods in regard to our affairs?
1140And upon that latter you are to act;--with what success, do you expect?
1140And we have changed all that; no- government is now the best; and a tailor''s foreman, who gives no trouble, is preferable to any other for governing?
1140And yet Governments, it would appear, could by no means get enough of it; almost none of it came their way: what had become of it?
1140And yet one would think the Majesty''s Chief Governor ought to have a kind of interest in the thing?
1140And yet who would not, in his heart of hearts, feel piously thankful that Imposture has fallen bankrupt?
1140And, truly, good consequences follow out of it: who can be blind to them?
1140Any concern at all, except that of handsomely keeping apart from them?
1140Are you too foolish?"
1140Are''solemnly constituted Impostors''the proper Kings of men?
1140As for Protectionist jargon, who in these earnest days would occupy many moments of his time with that?
1140As perhaps Heaven, in its infinite bounty, by stern methods, gradually will?
1140As your ally and coadjutor; or failing that, as your natural enemy: which shall it be?
1140Bay Darby, wilt not thou perhaps?
1140British Liberty produces-- what?
1140Brotherhood?
1140But do you wish his empty speech of what he believes, to become farther an insincere speech of what he does not believe?
1140But have we well considered a divergence_ in thought_ from what is the fact?
1140But if Nature and Fact do_ not_ love him?
1140But if it is not, and never was, or can be?
1140But if you do enter, the condition is well known:"Talk; who can talk best here?
1140But the question,"Are we to continue subjects of her Majesty, or start rebelling against her?
1140But what am I to say of heaven- born Pitt the son of Chatham?
1140But, alas, what next?
1140Can anything be more unreasonable than a Seventy- four?
1140Christian Religion?
1140Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
1140Did you think the Life of Man was a grimacing dance of apes?
1140Do I make myself plain to Mr. Peter''s understanding?
1140Do not you interrupt me, but try to understand and help me!----"Work, was I saying?
1140Do you call that a good trade?
1140Does he, in any sense,"think"?
1140Does the Christian or any religion prescribe love of scoundrels, then?
1140Education, kingship, command,--where is it, whither has it fled?
1140Elderly men can remember the tar- barrels burnt for success and thrice- immortal victory in the business; and yet what result had we?
1140Emancipation?
1140For in fact, it is reasonably asked, What vital interest has England in any cause now deciding itself in foreign parts?
1140For the alternative is not, Stay where we are, or change?
1140For those who will not have pity on themselves, and will force the Universe and the Laws of Nature to have no"pity on"them?
1140Happy regiments of the line, what soldier to any earthly or celestial Power has such a lodging and attendance as you here?
1140Have a false opinion, and tell it with the tongue of Angels, what can that profit?
1140Have the Parcae fallen asleep, because you wanted to make money in the City?
1140Have we no work to do but drilling Devil''s regiments of the line?
1140Have you at all computed how much less?
1140Have you no more respect for misfortune?
1140He can turn round upon you and say,"Why make an''example''of me, a merely ill- situated, pitiable man?
1140He whose very tongue utters falsities, what has his heart long been doing?
1140Here are our ten divinest men; with these, unhappily not divine enough, we must even content ourselves and die in peace; what help is there?
1140How can Parliament get through the Criminal Question?
1140How can the thought of such a man, what he calls thought, be other than false?
1140How do men rise in your Society?
1140How do you employ that?
1140How find it?
1140How is your ship to be steered by a Pilot with no_ eyes_ but a pair of glass ones got from the constitutional optician?
1140How it shall be done?
1140How the judge will do it?
1140How will this be done?
1140I hope it prescribes a healthy hatred of scoundrels;--otherwise what am I, in Heaven''s name, to make of it?
1140If our Government is to be a No- Government, what is the matter who administers it?
1140If this is the fact, why not treat it as such?
1140If your Government is to be a Constituted Anarchy, what issue can it have?
1140In all Societies, Turkey included, and I suppose Dahomey included, men do rise; but the question of questions always is, What kind of men?
1140Is Society become wholly a bag of wind, then, ballasted by guineas?
1140Is not America an instance in point?
1140Is not this Proposal the very essence of whatever truth there is in"Democracy;"this, that the able man be chosen, in whatever rank be is found?
1140Is not this a very wonderful arrangement?
1140Is there no value, then, in human things, but what can write itself down in the cash- ledger?
1140Is this such a sublime distinction, then?
1140It is a Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence_ he_ came?
1140Lastly,--or rather firstly, and as the preliminary of all, would there not be a Minister of Education?
1140Law of veracity?
1140Men of noble gifts, or men of ignoble?
1140Nature for such a man, and for Nations that follow such, has her patibulary forks, and prisons of death everlasting:--dost thou doubt it?
1140Nay, for this latter object, is not a certain height of intelligence even dangerous?
1140Nay, if M''Croudy offered his own life for_ sale_ in Threadneedle Street, would anybody buy it?
1140Nay, if they were in life- and- death earnest, what could it avail you in such a case?
1140Not the whole method; nor the method at all, if taken as the whole?
1140Nothing but"Rate in aid,""Time will mend it,""Necessary business of the Session;"and"After me the Deluge"?
1140One such, perhaps, might be attained; one such might prove discoverable among our Parliamentary populations?
1140Or is such a man, even if born in the due rank for it, the likeliest to present himself, and court their most sweet voices?
1140Or is there none; no one that can and dare?
1140Or perhaps Democracy, which we announce as now come, will itself manage it?
1140Or what say we, Cholera Doctors?
1140Pity, yes: but pity for the scoundrel- species?
1140Reader, did you ever hear of"Constituted Anarchy"?
1140Reward and punishment?
1140Shall we never think of this; shall we never more remember this, then?
1140Shall we say, May_ he_, may the Devil give you good of it, ye Elect of Scoundrelism?
1140Slop- shirts attainable three halfpence cheaper, by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls?
1140Such drowned ass ought to ask himself, If the function is a sublime one?
1140Surely on this side, if on no other, matters stood not ill with him?
1140Talent for Literature, thou hast such a talent?
1140That he must_ think_ the truth; much more speak it?
1140That is imperative upon her: she too will die, otherwise, and cough her last upon the streets some day;--how can she continue living?
1140The Almighty Maker is wroth that the Sarawak cut- throats, with their poisoned spears, are away?
1140The Kings were Sham- Kings, play- acting as at Drury Lane;--and what were the people withal that took them for real?
1140The Real Captain, unless it be some Captain of mechanical Industry hired by Mammon, where is he in these days?
1140The dog that was drowned last summer, and that floats up and down the Thames with ebb and flood ever since,--is it not dead?
1140The model of the world, then, is at once unattainable by the world, and not much worth attaining?
1140The most Herculean Ten Men that could be found among the English Twenty- seven Millions, are these?
1140The question, What to do with you?
1140The result of all which, what was it?
1140The speaker is"excellent;"the notes he does are beautiful?
1140The talent that can say nothing for itself, what is it?
1140The time, I believe, has come for asking with considerable severity, How far is it so?
1140The unhappy creature, does he not know, then, that every lie is accursed, and the parent of mere curses?
1140The work is but idle; if the doing of it will but pass, what need of more?
1140There_ are_ not, in any place, under any figure, ten diviner men among us?
1140These abject, ape, wolf, ox, imp and other diabolic- animal specimens of humanity, who of the very gods could ever have commanded them by love?
1140These guides, then, were mere blind men only pretending to see?
1140These reverend Dignitaries that sat amid their far- shining symbols and long- sounding long- admitted professions, were mere Impostors, then?
1140This and the Honorable Mr. That, as to their respective pretensions to ride the high horse?
1140To be led always by the squeak of your paltry fiddle?
1140To bring these Captainless under due captaincy?
1140To bring these hordes of outcast captainless soldiers under due captaincy?
1140To increase the reverence for Human Intellect or God''s Light, and the detestation of Human Stupidity or the Devil''s Darkness, what method is there?
1140To load the fatal_ chain_ with your perpetual staggerings and sprawlings; and ever again load it, till we all lie sprawling?
1140To puddle in the embouchures and drowned outskirts, and ulterior and ultimate issues and cloacas of the affair: what profit can there be in that?
1140To rectify the relation that exists between two men, is there no method, then, but that of ending it?
1140To the gifted soul that is born in England, what is the career, then, that will carry him, amid noble Olympic dust, up to the immortal gods?
1140Toughness_ plus_ astucity:--perhaps a simple wooden mast set up in Palace- Yard, well soaped and duly presided over, might be the honester method?
1140Universal Suffrage, ballot- boxes, count of heads?
1140What else?
1140What escape is there?
1140What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that one could worship, or loyally admire, has yet been produced there?
1140What had become of this celebrated Nineteenth Century''s intellect?
1140What harm had Sparrowbill done me that I should so help to ruin him?
1140What is Democracy; this huge inevitable Product of the Destinies, which is everywhere the portion of our Europe in these latter days?
1140What is a lie?
1140What right have you to hang any poor creature"for an example"?
1140What sort of reformers and workers are you, that work only on the rotten material?
1140What talent is born to you?
1140What this Law of the Universe, or Law made by God, is?
1140What to do with you?
1140Whence comes it, this universal big black Democracy; whither tends it; what is the meaning of it?
1140Which it is not"impossible"that we should cease to be, I hope?
1140Who are available to your Offices in Downing Street?
1140Who are you, ye thriftless sweepings of Creation, that we should forever be pestered with you?
1140Who would govern that can get along without governing?
1140Who, then, is to be the Reforming Statesman, and begin the noble work for us?
1140Why does not England repudiate Ireland, and insist on the"Repeal,"instead of prohibiting it under death- penalties?
1140Why should not all Nations subsist and flourish on Democracy, as America does?
1140Why should they quarrel?
1140Will Nature change, or sulphuric acid become sweet milk, for the noise of vociferous blockheads?
1140With our utmost soul''s travail we could discover, by the sublimest methods eulogized by all the world, no abler Englishman than this?
1140You prefer Delolme on the British Constitution, the Gospel according to M''Croudy, and a good balance at your banker''s?
1140You refuse?
1140You will have to pay it even in money if you live:--and, poor slave, do you think there is no payment but in money?
1140You would have saved the Sarawak Pirates, then?
1140You, ye diabolic canaille, what has a Governor much to do with you?
1140Your Potential Chief of Workers, will he come there at all, to try whether he can talk?
1140Your born genius, therefore, will first have to ask himself, Whether he can hold his tongue or can not?
1140in all thoroughfares, these eighteen hundred years in vain?
1140said one of our acquaintance, often in those weeks,"Was there ever such a miracle?
15759And so you really think that if Christ came and looked at this house and looked at me in it, He would not mind?
15759And ye, all ye people, are ye suitable or possible people for me to be religious with?
15759Are they the most efficient ones?
15759How can a machine- made world be run in the spirit of a hand- made world?
15759How can you get it?
15759Oh, why----?
15759What am I like inside? 15759 What are you especially for?"
15759What do you make?
15759What do you want?
15759What kind of a world is it, all the facts about me being duly considered, I really want to be in?
15759Where are we going? 15759 Who are you, Woodrow Wilson, in God''s name?"
15759Will the Crowd bring the Man to me?
15759Will the Dome bring the Man to me?
15759Will the Machines bring the Man to me?
15759_ CHAPTER I WHERE ARE WE GOING? 15759 ***** Was Mr. Josiah Wedgewood right when he called Davy McEwen a traitor to his class? 15759 Am I or am I not a man who can conduct his business as a great profession, one of the dignities and energies and joys of a great people? 15759 And I found them all full of the same strange questioning:Where are we going?"
15759And I stood in the middle of the roar of Trafalgar Square and asked, as all England was asking that night:"Where are we going?"
15759And how can a mine- owner reach down to the men in the hole, make himself felt as a human being on the bottom floor of the hole in the ground?
15759And how would it differ from the traditional or conventional temperament, governments are usually allowed to have?
15759And if stopping people does not stop them, what will?
15759And on what theory of their relation to us can machines and men expect in a world like this to run softly together?
15759And once more, Mr. President, in God''s name,_ who are we?_"This is always the gist of what it says,"Who are we?"
15759And once more, Mr. President, in God''s name,_ who are we?_"This is always the gist of what it says,"Who are we?"
15759And second, what would have happened if they had?
15759And what is it their hands and feet, umbrellas, bundles, and the wrinkles in their clothes tell us about them?
15759And who are the men who are not afraid?
15759And why are they willing to keep on having and expecting to have in this world all the good people on crosses?
15759And why not believe this and drop it?
15759And why should an Oxford man be afraid of a cubic inch of iron, or afraid of becoming like it?
15759And why should human beings running for their souls in a race with locomotives expect to keep very long from losing their souls?
15759And, after all, Mr. President-- if you please-- who_ are_ you?
15759Are they not the men of all others, all up and down that little strip of Oxford Street, who devote their entire time to human nature?
15759Are we for the machines, or are the machines for us?
15759Are we or are we not going to put a national penalty on all initiative in all business men because some men abuse it?
15759Are you not ashamed to be a party to-- to-- as small a crowd as this?"
15759Are you what you thought you would be?
15759At last, all men in all parties are engaged in trying to find out: Is it true or not true that we want to be good?
15759But an acre of Nowhere satisfies no one; and how many square miles does a man want to be a nobody in?
15759But how about doing as one would be done by with ninety million people-- all sizes, all climates, all religions, Buffalo, New Orleans, Seattle?
15759But is this what we want?
15759But were they necessarily wrong?
15759But what can we say about human beings in a mine, about the practicability of keeping human twenty- five hundred men in a hole in the ground?
15759But what of it?
15759But what of it?
15759But why is it that when the world makes a man suffer, everybody should seem always to be thinking of the man?
15759But why should we serve them?
15759But would they?
15759CHAPTER II IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE EFFICIENT?
15759CHAPTER III IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE INTERESTING?
15759CHAPTER VI THE PEOPLE SAY"WHO ARE YOU?"
15759CHAPTER VII THE PEOPLE SAY"WHO ARE WE?"
15759CHAPTER X WHO IS AFRAID?
15759CHAPTER XIII IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
15759CHAPTER XIV IS IT SECOND RATE FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
15759Can a mutual- interest employer, can a mutual- interest worker, be produced by the human race?
15759Can all the crowd, and can all the machines, and all the cathedrals piled up together produce the Man, the Crowd- man or great man who sees truth?
15759Can he stop it successfully by turning on his politeness?
15759Can the People see truth?
15759Did you act as if you believed in us?
15759Did you believe in us yesterday?
15759Did you get anybody to believe in us?
15759Did you know there was or could be anywhere a man like THIS?
15759Did you not make a mistake?
15759Do I suppose I understand camels?
15759Do I?
15759Do the People see truth?
15759Do they?
15759Do we want it?
15759Do you go by here grimly day by day, past all these people lined up on the hills, sternly thinking of yourself?"
15759Do you think I am, or do you think that I am not?
15759Do you think it is a good time for us to decide this morning what you are really like?
15759Do you think you are a soul?
15759Do you?
15759Does he need to be?
15759Does he or does he not know which he is, an Inventor, an Artist, or a Hewer?
15759Does he overhear it, I wonder?
15759Does human nature change?
15759Does it change toward a larger and longer vision?
15759Does not one see them-- see them everywhere-- one''s own flesh and blood, going about like stone- crushers, road- rollers, lifts, lawn- mowers?
15759First, why did the Trustees not award the prize to Allen Upward?
15759First: Do the elephants chase the men in it?
15759Had I not seen Mrs. Pethick Lawrence with the flush of Old Bailey on her cheek only a little while before in Albert Hall?
15759Has he not invented himself?
15759Have I not heard the bell tolling to the people in the midst of business and singing great hymns?
15759Have I not seen tired, mechanical men, whole generations of them, vast mobs of them, the men who have let the machines mow down their souls?
15759He began at once,"Do you think Christ would have approved of my house?"
15759He made him wonder softly who he was-- and the people all about him-- who were they?
15759Here in these United States sixty years ago were we not all at work on a man named Abraham Lincoln?
15759How about doing as one would be done by three thousand miles?
15759How are the machines like us?
15759How can President Wilson, in getting the Trusts not to be corrupt, in trying to win them-- how can President Wilson make the law alluring?
15759How can goodness be advertised to Crowds?
15759How can he get himself to work hard enough to make his food and clothes cheap?
15759How can he get their attention?
15759How can he make the People have a Low Voice?
15759How can he touch and wake the solar plexus of labour?
15759How can he touch their imaginations?
15759How can they be good in their business-- more good than their employers want them to be, for instance-- and keep their positions?
15759How can we determine what is the most practical and natural way for crowds of people to try to be beautiful now?
15759How could I answer the Child?_*****_"I want to trust the sky and the grass!
15759How could such a thing be stopped in a department store by a practical employer?
15759How do they do it?
15759How do you think you are turning out yourself, Mr. President?
15759How is our President going to hear our labour and our money sing?
15759How many men do you employ?"
15759How many square miles of the people''s thoughts can he spread out at breakfast tables, lift up in a thousand thousand trolleys before their faces?
15759How many sticks a day can he make compositors set up of what he thinks?
15759How shall an American, coming to you out of his long, flat, literary desert, dare to say it?...
15759How shall this statement be made?
15759I could not think of anything I had ever done to these men, and what had Liverpool and London done to them?
15759I look up a little closer-- look into his little, shrewd eyes-- and, after all, what do I know about him?
15759IS IT SECOND RATE FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
15759IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE EFFICIENT?
15759IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE INTERESTING?
15759IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
15759If everything in a Cabinet position turns on getting people to know things, why not get them to know them?
15759If he dares stand up before them and face them with nothing but thinking, what is he thinking?
15759If news is governing, how does the President do his governing?
15759If society has a soul and if every member of it has a soul, what is the relation of the social soul to the individual soul?
15759If we are fortunate enough to have in America a government with an American temperament what would it be like?
15759If we are going to get to socialism by giving up individualism, by abolishing heroes, why get to it?
15759If we hit it, whom will we hit?
15759In our glorious adolescence so sublime, so ugly, so believing, will no one sing a hymn to the Derricks?
15759In the meantime are not their scared and hateful opinions as good as my scared and hateful opinions?
15759In the meantime, what is there that can honestly be called base in taking human nature as it is and in allowing a sliding scale of motives in people?
15759Is he not at this very moment a better kind of man than he thought he could be once?
15759Is he not going to be a better kind to- morrow than he is now?
15759Is it not about time that somebody appeared very soon now who will make a stand once and for all in behalf of this Dear Old Lady- Like Person?
15759Is it not about time, in our dreary, drab, listless procession of economics, stringing helplessly across the world, that we have a band of music?
15759Is it really true that no one has noticed Her and is really going to stand up for Her-- for the old gentle- hearted Planet as a Whole?
15759Is this man a typical American?
15759Is this sentiment or is it cold businesslike efficiency?
15759It has to be faced now and here, as if it were some great scare- head or billboard on the world,"WHERE ARE WE GOING?"
15759It would come to seem, I should think, when he is alone with his God( and will he not please be alone with his God sometimes?
15759Just how much governing can a President do?
15759Morgan?"
15759On what principles could we make out a schedule or inventory of human nature, and decide on world- values in men?
15759Once when It broke in on Lincoln in this way and said,"_ Who are we?_"he prayed.
15759One could go about in the White House and study the portraits of the presidents, but where is the portrait of the people?
15759One looks into the faces of the people hurrying past:"_ Where are we going?_"One looks at the stars:"WHERE ARE WE GOING?"
15759One looks into the faces of the people hurrying past:"_ Where are we going?_"One looks at the stars:"WHERE ARE WE GOING?"
15759People look at the empty chairs as if every modest, unassuming chair there were some great personality saying to each and all of us:"Why are you here?
15759Perhaps you have been made fun of yourself, Gentle Reader?
15759Possibly you have noticed this trait in the great employers or, at least, in the great managers of employers?
15759Query-- And when an employer in a shoe factory deals with his employee, can it really be said, after all, that he is dealing with_ him_?
15759Rockefeller?"
15759Second: And if-- as in our Western civilization-- the men have made their own elephants, why should they be chased by them?
15759Shall the President act as if these men represent Labor and Capital?
15759Shall this civilization attempt to live by the crowd principle, without men in it who are living by the hero principle?
15759So the Crowd keeps coming back with the question,"Are there or are there not any competent business establishments in our modern life?
15759So we do not say,"Have we a President that can get our Bells, Edisons, McAdoos, Achesons to be good by toeing a line?"
15759THE PEOPLE SAY"WHO ARE WE?"
15759THE PEOPLE SAY"WHO ARE YOU?"
15759Taylor-- a mutual interest employer-- and to how he runs his business-- as to Horatio Bottomley?
15759The Secretary or the Secretary''s news engineer?
15759The bell would boom out,"What are you doing?
15759The legacy of all the ages, is it not descended upon us?--the spirit of a thousand nations?
15759The question that is now up before this country is, Do we or do we not want American business sterilized?
15759The real and serious question is, does stopping people stop them?
15759The ultimate question in a crowd civilization becomes, not"What does a thing mean?"
15759There are two assumptions underneath everybody''s thought, underneath every action of our government: Which is the American assumption?
15759There is no denying that, in a way, a committee does things; but what becomes of the committee?
15759They answer the question"Does human nature change?"
15759They have been deceived until lately, but are they being deceived now?
15759Upward?
15759WHERE ARE WE GOING?
15759WHO IS AFRAID?
15759Was I not desperate too?
15759Was it really true that they had any more reason to trust their employers than their employers had to trust them?
15759We found that the entire underside of the floor of the car was on fire, and what had happened?
15759We have our Tom Mann for the workers, and we have the Daily Newspaper-- the Tom Mann of Capital, but where is our Tom Mann for Everybody?
15759We may pile together all our funny, fearful, little Dreadnoughts, our stodgy dead lumps of men called armies, and what are they?
15759We must be righteous, but on the whole, must we not be righteous toward others as we would have them righteous toward us?
15759We say,"Have we a President who can swing into step, who can join in the singing, who can catch up?"
15759We will make the birds sing to him in the morning,"_ Where are you going_?"
15759We will put up a sign at the foot of his bed for his eyes to fall on when he awakes,"_ Where are you going_?"
15759Were they really Cogs and Wheels?
15759What are our machines after all?
15759What are the American people really like?
15759What are these things?
15759What are they like this morning?
15759What are they thinking about?
15759What are we for?
15759What are we like?
15759What are you believing this morning?
15759What do the crowds, poor and rich, really believe about life?
15759What do the people want?
15759What do they think they want?
15759What do we want instead?
15759What do you really like?
15759What do you really want?
15759What does he make out that we are like?
15759What if I were to see the world like the Child?
15759What is Business for?
15759What is a Government for?
15759What is inside?
15759What is it from hour to hour and day to day that we will do and we will not do?
15759What is it in the man that fills him with this fierce desire, this almost business- fanaticism for making goodness pay?
15759What is it that the men are trying to say in this awful, flaming, blackening metaphor of wishing Lord Devonport dead?
15759What is it that the thirty- one- story block is trying to say about us?
15759What is our American temperament?
15759What is the gist of the prayer to God, and to us?
15759What is the real news about us, for instance, as regards being goody- good?
15759What is the thing, the real thing in the Hand- made World, that fills me with pride and joy, and that I can not and will not give up?
15759What is there that is being said in them that should make any one feel like singing?
15759What sort of man am I?
15759What was there that could be done to touch the imagination of the crowd?
15759What was there that could be done with an obstinate, pervasive, unceasing habit of the people like this?
15759What will our new President do with these hundreds of miles of prayer, of crying to God, stretched up to him out of the hills and out of the plains?
15759What will the American workman do to express his American temperament through his labour union to his employer?
15759What will the children do with the three religions?
15759What will the three religions do with the children?
15759What will you do with ME?"
15759What would I do with a five- million- dollar fund for touching the imagination of labour and touching the imagination of capital?
15759What would be the most noble, the most universal, the most Godlike and democratic schedule for souls to be saved on-- on a world?
15759What would he do?
15759What would we do ourselves if we were Nobel Prize Trustees?
15759What would we try to do if we took the time to think?
15759Where are the dear little Poets?
15759Where are they hiding?
15759Where are they?
15759Where is Nazareth?
15759Where is the news about what we really want?
15759Which are right?
15759Which are they, and where are they?"
15759Which are you really like?"
15759Which class of statesmen do we want?
15759Which do you prefer?
15759Which man is right?
15759Which truth matters?
15759Which way shall we turn?
15759Who are the men to- day, in all walks of life, who want the most things for the most people, and who have made up their minds to get them?
15759Who are the men you say are like us?
15759Who are the people that can touch the imagination of Crowds?
15759Who are these men?
15759Who are these men?
15759Who are these men?
15759Who are we?
15759Who built it?"
15759Who bullied the cook and got everybody ready?
15759Who did it, please?
15759Who is responsible for it?
15759Who shall paint the portrait of a people?
15759Who that they could hope to deal with and get what they want from, could know more about human nature than they do?
15759Who wants it?
15759Whose Stomach is it?
15759Why are people so complacent about crosses?
15759Why are you not reading this book?"
15759Why bother about them?
15759Why bother to tell people to be good?
15759Why count them up?
15759Why do they not?
15759Why does not anybody think of the world?
15759Why have a world at all-- one like this?
15759Why is it that people-- so many good people will speak of oil at eleven cents in this way, as if it were a kind of little kingdom of heaven?
15759Why is no one singing 1913, our own American 1913?
15759Why not allow an order in moving trains of thought?
15759Why not change the face of the earth now?
15759Why not drop Jefferson and Hamilton and live ours?
15759Why not drop Karl Marx and Emerson and run the gamut of both of them, on a continent 3,000 miles wide?
15759Why not take that job instead?
15759Why not take the job of throwing one''s self out of a job?
15759Why not treat people''s souls seriously?
15759Why should a maple- bud mislead me?
15759Why should any one ever have supposed that it takes a backing down, giving up, teary, weak, and grieved person to do this?
15759Why should it be so?
15759Why should nightingales, poppies, and dells expect, in a main trial of strength, to compete with machines?
15759Why should not I do as well?
15759Why should not a human race have motives which it was not capable of at first?
15759Why should not everybody who employs labour know what Lord Grey knows?
15759Why should we guess?
15759Why should we live Thomas Jefferson''s and Alexander Hamilton''s lives?
15759Will not a larger and longer vision mean new kinds and new sizes of men?
15759Will not new sizes of men make new- sized ethics practical and make a new world?
15759Will you let me do it?
15759Will you watch me while I do it?"
15759Would not the very thought that fifty thousand men could pray a prayer like that make any man desperate?
15759Would there be any way of fixing upon an order for saving people on a world?
15759You do n''t really mean to say, do you, that He would approve of my living in a house like this?"
15759You say"Yes"?
15759You would not stand for that would you?"
15759_ Who are you_?
15759_"What do we want?"
15759_"Who are you?
15759a hero?
15759and what would they think, and what would they do next?
15759but"How much is there of it?"
15759is it not a hoping nation?
15759or a great genius?
15759or"What is it worth?"