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27569	''Then why did you refuse to eat it?''
27569	''What''s wrong with the World?''
27569	***** Is there any particular characteristic in this record of Chesterton''s visit to Jerusalem?
27569	***** What, then, is the essential part of Chesterton''s study of Charles Dickens?
27569	But I wonder if he did really know?
27569	But is it a false idealism?
27569	But is it that the prisons are wrong, or is it that society makes criminals?
27569	But the fact remains, do they wish to be so, and, if they do, is it necessary to them, or even congenial, that it shall be in Palestine?
27569	Can not he see that very often the ideal is nothing less than the real?
27569	Does Chesterton think that people who hate one another are going to live together as though they were the most ardent lovers?
27569	Does he consider that ill- assorted couples will make happy nations?
27569	Does he consider that it would be better to have no divorce and no marriage as a consequence?
27569	Does he consider that the newspapers print the divorce cases because they have no other copy?
27569	Does he really consider that divorce can destroy marriage?
27569	Has he thought what the state of the country would be if no marriage could ever be broken or a fresh matrimonial start made?
27569	Has right proportion been given to the most important events?
27569	I wonder whether Chesterton hangs up his socks on the eve of Christmas?
27569	I wonder whether Chesterton would write a''Philosophy for the Unthinking Man''?
27569	Is he laughing at anarchists that they are but policemen in disguise?
27569	Is he saying that policemen are really only anarchists?
27569	Is it as a critic?
27569	Is it as a historian?
27569	Is it as a novelist?
27569	Is it as an essayist?
27569	Is it not the significance of how love can bridge time?
27569	Is there any justification for the crimes of Henry?
27569	Or does he mean that the Devil masquerades as the spirit of the Holy Day of the week''Sunday,''or is''Sunday''really Christ?
27569	Should Herod have broken his vow that laid the head of John the Baptist on a charger?
27569	Should Jephthah have broken the vow that sacrificed his daughter?
27569	Should history be made popular in the modern sense of this much misinterpreted word?
27569	Should two people remain together when( if they have not broken their actual vows) they have lost the spirit of them?
27569	The opponents of divorce, who are so eager over the keeping of the marriage vow, are they as eager that it shall be but a miserable skeleton?
27569	The question in regard to our inquiry is: Is the marriage vow entirely binding even when the other party to the contract has broken it?
27569	The wild epitaph of Mrs. Sapsea,"Canst thou do likewise?"
27569	Turning round at my entrance he said, without any asking who I was,''Have a cigarette?''
27569	Was it eternal?
27569	Was it material?
27569	Was it spiritual?
27569	Was it temporary?
27569	What are the general impressions that a stranger visiting Chesterton would get?
27569	What does Chesterton mean by this strange weird tale that is almost like a romance of Oppenheim and is yet like an old- world allegory?
27569	What is Chesterton''s position as a poet to- day?
27569	What is its meaning?
27569	What is the explanation of this poem?
27569	What is the future of Dickens likely to be?
27569	Wherein lies its soul?
27569	Whether this is so is a question that opens up a broader one: Has the history of England ever received the attention it deserves?
27569	Which is the best possible definition of a heresy?
27569	Why is it a something against him that he chooses to be an idealist?
27569	Why should our policy be dictated by a celibate priesthood?
27569	Why, then, should man dislike it that his anatomy without flesh is inelegant?
27569	Would the great classic poets of the last century have been as great if they had not written so much poetry?
45811	''Not particularly,''ha replied;''but where are you off to in such a hurry?''
45811	''What is there odd about that?''
45811	''Why seek ye the living among the dead?
45811	''_ ASCENSION DAY What is the difference between Christ and Satan?
45811	''_ DECEMBER 13th Elder father, though thine eyes Shine with hoary mysteries, Canst thou tell what in the heart Of a cowslip blossom lies?
45811	''_ EASTER DAY I said to my companion the Dickensian,''Do you see that angel over there?
45811	''_ George Bernard Shaw._''FEBRUARY 7th_ DICKENS BORN_ We are able to answer the question,''Why have we no great men?''
45811	''_ OCTOBER 30th Do you see this lantern?
45811	''_ SHROVE TUESDAY Why should I care for the Ages Because they are old and grey?
45811	A bubble-- have you ever spied The colours I have seen on it?''
45811	After a pause I answered,''Do you remember what the Angel at the Sepulchre said?''
45811	Are we still strong enough to spear mammoths, but now tender enough to spare them?
45811	But can you stand still in this meadow and_ be_ an English gentleman of Elizabeth?
45811	But have you ever seen him?
45811	Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilization, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
45811	Do you really mean to say that at the moment when the Esquimaux has learnt to vote for a County Council, you will have learnt to spear a walrus?
45811	Do you remember now what the Angel said at the Sepulchre?
45811	Do you see the cross carved on it and the flame inside?
45811	Does the cosmos contain any mammoth that we have either speared or spared?
45811	Have we indeed outstripped the warrior and passed the ascetical saint?
45811	Have you ever seen an austere republican?
45811	How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages?
45811	If a man must not fight for this, may he fight for anything?
45811	If he is to be anything else than this, why should we desire him, or what else are we to desire?
45811	If so, where is the sense of all their dreams of festive traditions?
45811	If the ordinary man may not discuss existence, why should he be asked to conduct it?
45811	If the superman will come by human selection, what sort of superman are we to select?
45811	If the superman will come by natural selection, may we not leave it to natural selection?
45811	If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question,''Why should anything go right; even observation or deduction?
45811	In a purely democratic state it would be always saying,''What laws can we obey?''
45811	Is it really true that you and I are two starry towers built up of all the most towering visions of the past?
45811	Is not He too a servant, And is not He forgot?
45811	My little village smoke; or pass the door, The old dear door of that unhappy house That is to me a kingdom and much more?
45811	O ill for him that loves the sun; Shall the sun stoop for anyone?
45811	Shall I not fight for my own existence?''
45811	Shall the sun weep for hearts undone Or heavy souls that pray?
45811	The immediate answer, of course, is sufficiently obvious: the ape did not worry about the man, so why should we worry about the superman?
45811	The real problem is-- Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity?
45811	They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?''
45811	Those names and notions are all honourable, but how long will they last?
45811	Was he a good man with some greater moral code?
45811	Was he a very, very bad man?
45811	What phrase would inspire a London clerk or workman just now?
45811	What then is your real quarrel with Catholicism?
45811	What will remain?
45811	Who cares?
45811	Who knows now exactly what Nestorius taught?
45811	Why did he who loved where all men were blind, seek to blind himself where all men loved?
45811	Why should I bow to the Ages Because they are drear and dry?
45811	Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic?
45811	Why was he a monk and not a troubadour?
45811	Why was it that the most large- hearted and poetic spirits in that age found their most congenial atmosphere in these awful renunciations?
45811	Will it?
45811	With us the governing class is always saying to itself,''What laws shall we make?''
45811	Yes; we may pass the heavenly screen, But shall we know when we are there?
27250	A man who takes a holiday at Trouville or Dieppe is not confronted on his return with the question,''When is your book on France going to appear?''
27250	And if we did ask him to bring his wife, how many wives would he bring?
27250	Are these the amiable and pacific relations which will unite England and America, when Englishmen can get to America in a day?
27250	Are you an atheist?''
27250	Assuming all the desperate composure of Slim Jim himself, I replied,''You mean you are connected with the police authorities here, do n''t you?
27250	But because I know that Bilge is only Bilge, shall I stoop to the profanity of saying that fire is only fire?
27250	But is my American critic really ready to treat the sacrifice of blood in the same way as the sacrifice of beer?
27250	But perhaps a better answer would be that given to W. T. Stead when he circulated the rhetorical question,''Shall I slay my brother Boer?''
27250	But right in what?
27250	But the English are not always saying, either in romance or reality,''What''s to be done, if our food is being poisoned by all these baronets?''
27250	But what are those rights?
27250	But what did it write on Belshazzar''s wall?...
27250	But what would be the good of imaginative logic to prove the madness of such people, when they themselves praise it for being mad?
27250	Can it be possible that he brought it from Virginia, where the cigarettes come from?
27250	Can we say in any special sense nowadays that clergymen, as such, make a poison out of the blood of the martyrs?
27250	Can we say it in anything like the real sense, in which we do say that yellow journalists make a poison out of the blood of the soldiers?
27250	I suppose most of your people are agricultural, are n''t they?''
27250	If he was a lunatic who thought he was an astronomer, why did he have a badge to prove he was a detective?
27250	If the police insist on his wearing clothes, will he recognise the authority of the police?
27250	If there are no rights of men, what are the rights of nations?
27250	If_ Martin Chuzzlewit_ makes America a lunatic asylum, what in the world does it make England?
27250	In short, as in the American formula, is he a polygamist?
27250	In short, as in the American formula, is he an anarchist?
27250	Is Mr. Campbell content with a Prohibition which is another name for Privilege?
27250	Is bloodshed to be as prolonged and protracted as Prohibition?
27250	Is the Hairy Ainu content with hair, or does he wear any clothes?
27250	Is the normal noncombatant to shed his gore as often as he misses his drink?
27250	O, hidden face of man, whereover The years have woven a viewless veil, If thou wert verily man''s lover What did thy love or blood avail?
27250	One of the questions on the paper was,''Are you an anarchist?''
27250	Only, if war is the exception, why should Prohibition be the rule?
27250	Shall I blaspheme crimson stars any more than crimson sunsets, or deny that those moons are golden any more than that this grass is green?
27250	Take that innocent question,''Are you an anarchist?''
27250	The inquisitor, in his more than morbid curiosity, had then written down,''Are you a polygamist?''
27250	Then there was the question,''Are you in favour of subverting the government of the United States by force?''
27250	To which a detached philosopher would naturally feel inclined to answer,''What the devil has that to do with you?
27250	Was he a detective?
27250	Was he a wandering lunatic?
27250	Was he an astronomer?
27250	What has become of all those ideal figures from the Wise Man of the Stoics to the democratic Deist of the eighteenth century?
27250	Which has most to do with shekels to- day, the priests or the politicians?
27250	Who and what was that man?
27250	Why not wear his uniform, if he was resolved to show every stranger in the street his badge?
27250	Why should the world take the chains off the black man when it was just putting them on the white?
27250	Would etiquette require us to ask him to bring his wife?
27250	_ Is the Atlantic Narrowing?_ A certain kind of question is asked very earnestly in our time.
27250	or''Are you a philanthropist?''
27250	which is intrinsically quite as impudent as''Are you an optimist?''
470	What are those two beautiful and industrious beings,I can imagine him murmuring to himself,"whom I see everywhere, serving me I know not why?
470	What man of you having a hundred sheep, and losing one, would not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which was lost?
470	And on which the sincerity?
470	And what have they done?
470	But is there any one so darkly read in stars and oracles that he will dare to predict what Mr. Asquith will be saying thirty years hence?
470	But let us ask ourselves( in a spirit of love, as Mr. Chadband would say), what are the ballets of the Alhambra?
470	But poor women in the Battersea High Road do say,"Do you think I will sell my own child?"
470	But when we ask,"But what have these nails held together?
470	Did Raleigh think it sensible to answer the Spanish guns only, as Stevenson says, with a flourish of insulting trumpets?
470	Did Sydney ever miss an opportunity of making a theatrical remark in the whole course of his life and death?
470	Does Mr. Henry James infect us with the spirit of a schoolboy?
470	For if we admit that there must be varieties in art or opinion what sense is there in thinking there will not be varieties in government?
470	How can it have come about that a man as intelligent as Mr. McCabe can think that paradox and jesting stop the way?
470	How do you know a camel when you see one?"
470	How, then, can he recognize its aspects?
470	I replied with a natural simplicity and wonder,"About what other subjects can one make jokes except serious subjects?"
470	If so, where is the sense of all their dreams of festive traditions?
470	If the Superman is better than we, of course we need not fight him; but in that case, why not call him the Saint?
470	If the two moralities are entirely different, why do you call them both moralities?
470	If we do not expect the unexpected, why do we go there at all?
470	If we expect the expected, why do we not sit at home and expect it by ourselves?
470	In a purely democratic state it would be always saying,"What laws can we obey?"
470	Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?"
470	Is the art of Whistler a brave, barbaric art, happy and headlong?
470	Is the man who shoots angels and carves beasts into men humble?
470	Is the prophet of the future of all men humble?
470	It is a far deeper and sharper question to ask,"What can they know of England who know only the world?"
470	It is as if a man were asked,"What is the use of a hammer?"
470	It is very banal and very inartistic when a poor woman at the Adelphi says,"Do you think I will sell my own child?"
470	On which side would be the solemnity?
470	Or, again,"What man of you if his son ask for bread will he give him a stone, or if he ask for a fish will he give him a serpent?"
470	The Man- God of old answers from his awful hill,"Was ever sorrow like unto my sorrow?"
470	The ordinary man of sense would reply,"Then what makes you call them all camels?
470	The question is not whether we go up or down stairs, but where we are going to, and what we are going, for?
470	To use a fine phrase for emotional sanity, was his heart in the right place?
470	Unfortunately, the philosopher who talks about aspects of truth generally also asks,"What is truth?"
470	Was Essex restraining his excitement when he threw his hat into the sea?
470	Was Grenville concealing his emotions when he broke wine- glasses to pieces with his teeth and bit them till the blood poured down?
470	Was he fond of children-- or fond of them only in a dark and sinister sense?
470	We were inclined to ask,"Who wants to gather moss, except silly old ladies?"
470	Were all the Elizabethan palladins and pirates like that?
470	Were any of them like that?
470	Were even the Puritans Stoics?
470	What do you mean by a camel?
470	What fairy godmother bade them come trotting out of elfland when I was born?
470	What god of the borderland, what barbaric god of legs, must I propitiate with fire and wine, lest they run away with me?"
470	What has health to do with care?
470	What have your nails done?"
470	What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?
470	What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws?
470	What were the giant''s religious views; what his views on politics and the duties of the citizen?
470	Where are your contented Outlanders?
470	Where is your British prestige?
470	Where is your carpentry?
470	Where is your free South Africa?
470	Who are the Irish?
470	Who were the Celts?
470	Why should Mr. McCabe be so eloquent about the danger arising from fantastic and paradoxical writers?
470	Why should he be so ardent in desiring grave and verbose writers?
470	With us the governing class is always saying to itself,"What laws shall we make?"
470	and answered,"To make hammers"; and when asked,"And of those hammers, what is the use?"
470	then what answer is there?
27080	And what happened then?
27080	Pilate asked,''What is truth?'' 27080 What is your wand?"
27080	What the devil are you talking about?
27080	Why should it not make lamp- posts fairer than Greek lamps, and an omnibus- ride like a painted ship? 27080 (_ O Mother, Mary Mother,__ Why laughs she thus between Hell and Heaven?_) The trouble about the latter variety is its extreme simplicity. 27080 A suggestive French farce may be a dirty joke, but it is at least a joke; but a play which raises the question Is marriage a failure? 27080 Ah, my brethren, what indeed?
27080	And I suppose, to the medical mind, seeing fairies means much the same as seeing snakes?
27080	And then the sudden obvious truth burst upon Chesterton, What if Christianity was the happy mean?
27080	And what a mass of harm may have come of not believing in Apollo?
27080	And what harm came of believing in Apollo?
27080	And what have I stolen?
27080	And what is that?
27080	And what is the cruellest crime?
27080	Art for the people, eh?
27080	But what the devil are you for, if you do n''t believe in a miracle?
27080	But who is Sunday?
27080	Chesterton''s answer to this is:"I used to think so, but what about Lord Murray, Mr. Lloyd George, and Mr. Godfrey Isaacs?"
27080	Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs?"
27080	Do n''t women help to pay the hangman''s wages with every ounce of tea or of sweets they buy?
27080	Do n''t you know what it is to be in all one family circle, with aunts and uncles, when a schoolboy comes home for the holidays?
27080	Do they, Smith?
27080	Do they, fasting, tramping, bleeding, Wait the news from this our city?
27080	Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well be faith?
27080	Have I committed a worse crime than thieving?
27080	He immediately raises the question, Can we dissociate beer from skittles?
27080	He observed,"Well, little one, are n''t you going to show me any gratitude?"
27080	He would have liked( as who would not?)
27080	How is he able to deal with ideas and inventions stated in a more definite and particular manner?
27080	I thought you yourself considered the family superstition bad for the health?
27080	I understand that you appear here to give evidence on behalf of the average man?
27080	If the voice of Cecil falters, If McKenna''s point has pith, Do they tremble for their altars?
27080	Is it not desirable that Hampstead and Highgate should each have an opportunity of finding out independently what they like?
27080	Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?
27080	Is there no such thing in the house at this moment?
27080	Juries may differ in their judgments; but why not?
27080	May they not compete in taste one against the other?
27080	Now what has become of Chesterton''s decencies?
27080	Offering the Garter is no go-- BUT WILL YOU LEND ME TWO- AND- SIX?
27080	Really, Smith?
27080	Smith''s case is,"How can the Church have a right to make men fast if she does not allow them to feast?
27080	Such as"But will you lend me two- and- six?"
27080	Suppose that Chesterton is n''t a Socialist, is he more on the side of the Socialists or on that of the Free Trade Liberal capitalists and landlords?
27080	Surely the Duke''s house would contain a spare room?
27080	That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines?
27080	The whole scene has been, so far, a discussion on Do Miracles Happen?
27080	Then you think no one should question at all?
27080	Upon whom has the curse fallen?
27080	We must answer the questions; to what extent does he represent mere unqualified reaction?
27080	Well now, are these indecencies sincere or simulated?
27080	Were n''t there as many who believed passionately in Apollo?
27080	What are his qualifications as a craftsman?
27080	What does your coat mean if it does n''t mean that there is such a thing as the supernatural?
27080	What does your cursed collar mean if it does n''t mean that there is such a thing as a spirit?
27080	What if he can not tell the time himself?
27080	What, after all, has he done?
27080	Where did the Conjuror go, at the end of the Third Act, in the small hours of the morning?
27080	Where the Breton boat- fleet tosses, Are they, Smith?
27080	Why ca n''t you leave the universe alone and let it mean what it likes?
27080	Why should any man suppose that he pleases God by patiently hearing an Ignorant fellow render Religion ridiculous?"
27080	Why should n''t the thunder be Jupiter?
27080	Why should the Conjuror rehearse his patter out in the wet?
27080	Will anybody revise his political views on this basis?
27080	Yes, but, Mr. Chesterton, are n''t they just as responsible for it in any case?
27080	["Are you interested in modern progress?"
27080	[_ Exasperated._] Why the devil do you dress up like that if you do n''t believe in it?
27080	[_ Looking at him._] Do you believe in your own religion?
27080	[_ With violence._] Or perhaps you do n''t believe in devils?
27080	_ Do Miracles Happen?_ Report of a Discussion at the Little Theatre in January, 1914.
27080	_ Was_ Joan of Arc a Vegetarian?
27080	_ What''s Wrong with the World?_ Cassell.
46809	Did you ever read''The Sea- Lady''?
46809	I wonder is salvation the same for every one? 46809 9, p. 765) andIs Nature Good?"
46809	A human factor, an element of personal desire, enters into all our thinking; otherwise why should we bother to think?
46809	And if he runs that risk, is he not renouncing his ideal of reaching fool- proof certainty?
46809	And was not God my armorer, All patient and unpaid, That sealed my skull as a helmet And ribs for hauberk made?
46809	And well may God with the serving- folk Cast in His dreadful lot: Is not He too a servant And is not He forgot?
46809	And what drives this place?"
46809	And what right had he thus to argue from the known to the unknown?
46809	And when Cusins asks:"What on earth is the true faith of an Armorer?"
46809	Are these ruins inhabited?"
46809	Are we also to live without security?
46809	Artillery driving across the open?
46809	As Schiller puts it:[5] What then is common to all sorts of Truth and Error, and renders them species of a common genus?
46809	But is this little wet ditch here the Historical River Thames?"
46809	But, if so, how does he know that his"law"applies to the"case"?
46809	Can a journalist have a philosophy of life, and if so would it be worth talking about?
46809	Can an"inference"be"valid"if it involves a_ risk_?
46809	Can you as an Englishman tamely contemplate the possibility of having to live under a German moon?
46809	Can you further reconcile that with neutrality, a neutrality in spirit and not merely in the letter?
46809	Cavalry in the background?
46809	Chesterton wrote on"Shall the United States Fight?"
46809	Do you believe that the Socialists have overnight, as it were, become changed from decided opponents to adherents of militarism?
46809	Do you really think that we are as stupid as all that?
46809	Eight lines of infantry?
46809	For was not God my gardener And silent like a slave: That opened oaks on the uplands Or thicket in graveyard grave?
46809	Have you forgotten Russia, with her one hundred and fifty million inhabitants and her army, which is by far the largest in the whole world?
46809	How do the inhabitants sleep with the possibility of invasion, of bombardment, continually present to their minds?
46809	If we had meant conquest should we have chosen the very moment when half the world was against us, and we were numerically in the minority?
46809	Is Wells also among the prophets?
46809	It is a true answer to the question--"when do you leave?"
46809	It is the step we fight for and not ourselves.... We are here, Brothers, to what end?
46809	Or, if he did_ not_ know this, is he not_ risking_ an assertion about some"swans"on the strength of what he knows about others?
46809	The need for thought first comes when man asks"Why?"
46809	Third.--How do you explain the fact that the Americans who were in Germany at the outbreak of the war in an overwhelming majority sided with us?
46809	To justify the"major premise""_ all_ swans are white", must not its assert or have already seen_ this_ swan and know that_ it_ is white?
46809	To use a fine phrase for emotional sanity, was his heart in the right place?
46809	Was he fond of children-- or fond of them only in a dark and sinister sense?
46809	What else are they building a navy for?
46809	What else have their army to do?
46809	What is the good of pretending that the Wild Asses are the instruments of Providence kicking better than we know?
46809	What on earth is strength for but to be used and will any reasonable man tell me that we are using our strength now to any purpose?
46809	What was I saying?...
46809	What we think must be of use to us in some way, else why should we think it?
46809	What were the giant''s religious views; what his views on politics and the duties of the citizen?
46809	When Blake asks of the tiger,"Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
46809	When therefore_ black_ swans arrive from Australia to upset his dogmatizing, what is he to do?
46809	Who can doubt the reality of"the spiritual life"after he has seen Eucken?
46809	Why is it that British authors give us such horrible pictures of their school days?
46809	Will he say his major premise was a definition, and no bird, however swan- like, shall be_ called_ a"swan"if it can not pass his color- test?
46809	Would you have our English slumbers broken in this way?
46809	Yes: we may pass the heavenly screen, But shall we know when we are there?
46809	_ Balsquith_--But if they wo nt recognize it, what can I do?
46809	_ Mitchener_--Why should n''t they?
46809	or"Do you not believe this or that?"
46809	or"Which?"
46809	that he has picked out the right"law"to deal with the case and formulated it correctly?
46809	that the"case"is such as he takes it to be?
130	A man chooses to have an emotion about the largeness of the world; why should he not choose to have an emotion about its smallness?
130	And to the question,"What is meant by the Fall?"
130	And what is the matter with the anti- patriot?
130	And what is the matter with the candid friend?
130	Are there no other stories in the world except yours; and are all men busy with your business?
130	But do we want so crude a consummation?
130	But do we want the universe smashed up for fun?
130	But even supposing that those doctrines do include those truths, why can not you take the truths and leave the doctrines?
130	But how can this be an answer when even in saying"Japan has become progressive,"we really only mean,"Japan has become European"?
130	But how can we rush if we are, perhaps, in advance of our time?
130	But the question is, do we want to have longer and longer noses?
130	But we may ask in conclusion, if this be what drives men mad, what is it that keeps them sane?
130	But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other?
130	But what do we mean by making things better?
130	Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
130	Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing?
130	Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair?
130	Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence?
130	Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist?
130	Christianity had also felt this opposition of the martyr to the suicide: had it perhaps felt it for the same reason?
130	Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs?
130	How can I answer if there is no eternal test?
130	How can I denounce a man for skinning cats, if he is only now what I may possibly become in drinking a glass of milk?
130	How can it be noble to wish to make one''s life infinite and yet mean to wish to make it immortal?
130	How can man be approximately free of fine emotions, able to swing them in a clear space without breakage or wrong?
130	How can one say that Christmas celebrations are not suitable to the twenty- fifth of a month?
130	How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it?
130	How can we make a man always dissatisfied with his work, yet always satisfied with working?
130	How can we rush to catch a train which may not arrive for a few centuries?
130	How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages?
130	How can you overtake Jones if you walk in the other direction?
130	I am not saying this fierceness was right; but why was it so fierce?
130	I said to him,"Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves?
130	If Cinderella says,"How is it that I must leave the ball at twelve?"
130	If I ask,"Why credulous?"
130	If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more fit to govern them?
130	If clean homes and clean air make clean souls, why not give the power( for the present at any rate) to those who undoubtedly have the clean air?
130	If sweaters can be behind the current morality, why should not philanthropists be in front of it?
130	If the standard changes, how can there be improvement, which implies a standard?
130	If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question,"Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction?
130	If you like to put it so, shall it be a reasonable or an unreasonable loyalty?
130	If you see clearly the kernel of common- sense in the nut of Christian orthodoxy, why can not you simply take the kernel and leave the nut?
130	In Sir Oliver Lodge''s interesting new Catechism, the first two questions were:"What are you?"
130	In what world of riddles was born this monstrous murder and this monstrous meekness?
130	Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it?
130	Is there any answer to the argument that those who have breathed clean air had better decide for those who have breathed foul?
130	Is there any answer to the proposition that those who have had the best opportunities will probably be our best guides?
130	It may be so, and if it is so how are we to test it?
130	Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?
130	The Evolutionist says,"Where do you draw the line?"
130	The question was,"What did the first frog say?"
130	The real problem is-- Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity?
130	They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?"
130	They do not prove that Adam was not responsible to God; how could they prove it?
130	They might reasonably rejoin( in a stentorian chorus),"How the blazes could we discover, without being angry, whether angry people see red?"
130	Thus, if one asked an ordinary intelligent man, on the spur of the moment,"Why do you prefer civilization to savagery?"
130	To the question,"What are you?"
130	Was Lord Bacon a bootblack?
130	Was the Duke of Marlborough a crossing sweeper?
130	We say there must be a primal loyalty to life: the only question is, shall it be a natural or a supernatural loyalty?
130	What could be better than to have all the fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of landing there?
130	What could be the nature of the thing which one could abuse first because it would not fight, and second because it was always fighting?
130	What could it all mean?
130	What is the evil of the man commonly called an optimist?
130	What is the matter with the pessimist?
130	What on earth is the current morality, except in its literal sense-- the morality that is always running away?
130	What was this Christianity which always forbade war and always produced wars?
130	Who ever found an ant- hill decorated with the statues of celebrated ants?
130	Who has seen a bee- hive carved with the images of gorgeous queens of old?
130	Why should a man surrender his dignity to the solar system any more than to a whale?
130	Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic?
130	Why, then, should one worry particularly to call it large?
130	and"What, then, is the meaning of the Fall of Man?"
130	her godmother might answer,"How is it that you are going there till twelve?"
18707	And whose words are you so gaily murdering?
18707	Are there no other Catholics to do things?
18707	Did he ever go down to the Grotto?
18707	Do you see that fire?
18707	How do you know,retorts Shaw,"it is not Herbert Spencer I have not read?
18707	How tall are you and what do you weigh?
18707	I must have left it behind, darling, but I brought back the ties, did n''t I? 18707 Is George Bernard Shaw a coming peril?"
18707	Is a man proud of losing his hearing, eyesight or sense of smell? 18707 Of course you know,"Annie Firmin wrote to me,"that Aunt Marie never liked Frances?
18707	Was it hard for him to walk?
18707	Was it of widowhood?
18707	What books?
18707	What did Frances die of?
18707	What did he say about my ear?
18707	What did he talk to you about?
18707	What has really happened during the last seven days and nights? 18707 What would you say if I turned the world upside down and set my foot upon the sun and the moon?"
18707	Where did he go to church?
18707	Why are you cutting out that one?
18707	Why did n''t you buy some more?
18707	Will you take care of me?
18707	_ HIS LORDSHIP-- Did Mr. Chesterton charge the witness with being a traitor? 18707 ''Are they still-- all out at places?'' 18707 ''Hast thou sent the Rain upon the Earth?'' 18707 ''The what?'' 18707 ( 1) How am I? 18707 ( 10) How far is it to Babylon? 18707 ( 2) Am I going away at Easter? 18707 ( 6) Does my hair want cutting? 18707 (? 18707 )_ PRINCESS: Why should we patch this pirate up again? 18707 *** Wild: Can you point to one success except Marconi in the whole of your career? 18707 A MAN BORN ON THE EARTH Perhaps there has been some mistake How does he know he has come to the right place? 18707 A correspondence that seemed likely to drag on forever ended abruptly with Wells asking about the Fall,Tell me, did it really happen?"
18707	A few of the lectures and debates of these years were:"Is Journalism Justifiable?
18707	A picture cover like that of Punch might stand even that test if it were good enough; but where are you to find your Doyle?
18707	After a lecture in Philadelphia a lady asked him,"Mr. Chesterton, what makes women talk so much?"
18707	After all, what did such things matter?
18707	After all, why should we object to be boiled?
18707	Again I may submissively ask:"Whose is the Paradox?"
18707	And anyhow what about Belloc?
18707	And as to lost documents-- What of the ministers''dealings in shares?
18707	And how can we put a fair price on what is at once a worry and a pleasure?
18707	And if a mother can not trust her child easily to God Almighty, shall I be so mean as to be angry because she can not trust it easily to me?
18707	And in another letter: A cosmos one day being rebuked by a pessimist replied,"How can you who revile me consent to speak by my machinery?
18707	And is there any man who doubts that you will be sympathetic with the Jewish International?
18707	And the essence of the difference was this: the modern Socialist is saying,"What will society do?"
18707	And then you wonder-- is this illumination light on Blake or simply light on Chesterton?
18707	And what was the remedy?
18707	And, by the way, is ditchwater dull?
18707	Are all who called the Chinese slaves to be sued by all who did n''t?
18707	Are they henceforth to make game of everything that is said and done in the name of England in the affairs of Europe?
18707	Are two Hypotheticals of the forms,_ If A, then B_, and_ If A then not B_ compatible?"
18707	Are we to lose the War which we have already won?
18707	Are we to set up as the standing representative of England a man who is a standing joke against England?
18707	Are you quite mad?
18707	As I turn to the story of the weekly paper rising again from its ashes I ask myself the question I have often asked: was it worth while?
18707	As we waved goodbye after their departing train my mother said thoughtfully:"Frances did rather play off Jerusalem against Rome, did n''t she?"
18707	At a debate with Dr. Horace T. Bridges of the Ethical Cultural Society on"Is Psychology a Curse?"
18707	At question period he was asked:"Why is Dean Inge gloomy?"
18707	Belloc also, in a letter extolling the Faith, asked"what else would print civilised stuff in Australasia?"
18707	Belloc declares that everyone says to him"Who discovered Chesterton?"
18707	But does not Mr. Blatchford see the other side of the fact?
18707	But is there not for the thinker an asceticism of the mind, very searching, very purifying?
18707	But it was in the newspapers that you were last month in Warsaw; why in Heaven''s sake did you not come to Prague on this occasion?
18707	But much more fundamental was the constantly recurrent question: When is the League going to begin to do something?
18707	But she sees a new element in your life, wholly from outside-- is it not natural, given her temperament, that you should find her perturbed?
18707	But the question does recur; what is the good of being good in that way?
18707	But were the shares his?
18707	But were they as clear to the whole world?
18707	But who would perform that illegal operation: the stopping of Stevenson?
18707	But why do you say that Christ did it and has left no Christians who do it?
18707	CHAPTER X Who is G.K.C.?
18707	Can any human being read the record of this recurrent motif and reconcile it with Mrs. Cecil''s picture?
18707	Can anything be more absurd than the idea of a man cheering alone in his back bedroom?
18707	Can we imagine Gilbert cooking or even ordering sausages, getting beer to the flat, designing or discovering the studio?
18707	Carson: And therefore you do not accuse him of anything dishonest or dishonourable?
18707	Carson: Do you accuse the Postmaster General of dishonesty or corruption?
18707	Carson: I must repeat my question, do you accuse the Postmaster- General of anything dishonest or dishonourable?
18707	Carson: You have not that opinion now?
18707	Charles Rowley of the Ancoats Brotherhood received a wire, reply paid, from Snow Hill Station, Birmingham:"Am I coming to you tonight or what?"
18707	Chesterton?"
18707	Damn it all( excuse me) what can one be but frivolous about serious things?
18707	Deep in the tablets of our hearts he writes that yearning still, The longing that His hand hath wrought shall not his hand fulfil?
18707	Did I ever quote you a sentence of Bernard Holland on the subject of Kenelm Henry Digby when the latter was received?
18707	Did the tendency to find good in his opponents, did Chesterton''s universal charity deaden, as Belloc believes, the effect of his writing?
18707	Did you see my letter in Tuesday''s_ Times?_ Magnificent!
18707	Do I seem to be raving?
18707	Do n''t you sometimes find it convenient, even in my case, that your friends are less touchy than you are?
18707	Do not the words of Jesus ring Like nails knocked into a board In his father''s workshop?
18707	Do you care to come and see the fun?
18707	Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?
18707	Do you or do you not accuse him?
18707	Do you realize that it is £250 at pre- war rates, and subject to heavy taxation: net £375--pre- war 182- 10- 0?
18707	Do you think all this kind of thing frivolous?
18707	Do you think it would be possible to make Belloc write a comedy?
18707	Do you want her?"
18707	First, in whose eyes but ours has the Party System lost credit?
18707	Fourth,"Is Democracy compatible with Parliamentary Government?"
18707	Gilbert had, as we have seen, originally intended to call the book_ What''s Wrong?_ laying some emphasis on the note of interrogation.
18707	Gilbert repeated the phrase and said eagerly:"He would n''t say it unless he meant it, would he?"
18707	Gilbert was fond of asking in the_ New Witness_ of people who expressed admiration for Lloyd George:"Which George do you mean?"
18707	God sets the problem, God tells the story, but can those know Him who are characters in His story, who are working out His problem?
18707	Had we anything to do with the making of this ardent, eager, indefatigable creature?
18707	Had we known all this we should have been asking ourselves even more definitely: What will the experts say?
18707	Has any Catholic ever explained the philosophic meaning of Transubstantiation to the Great old Irish Man of English Letters?
18707	Has it ever occurred to you how much a good citizen would have to love you in order to tolerate you?
18707	Have n''t I always shown a reasonable civility to you and your brother and Belloc?
18707	Have n''t I betrayed at times a certain affection for you?
18707	Have n''t I on the whole behaved decently to you?
18707	Have we got that down?
18707	Have you ever known what it is to walk along a road in such a frame of mind that you thought you might meet God at any turn of the path?
18707	He had intended to call the book,"What''s Wrong?"
18707	He only said,"But shall I not find in evil a life of its own?
18707	He said"What shall I lecture on?"
18707	He said,''Oh did you want tennis- balls?''
18707	He uttered the pedantic reply,"Where do you want to go to?"
18707	His own youngest son, a small boy, had left the room for a moment when Wells exclaimed:"Where''s Frank?
18707	How and where can these two incommensurates find a meeting place?
18707	How can I get hold of it?
18707	How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?
18707	How can money dig?
18707	How could a real Tory co- operate in construction with a genuine Radical?
18707	How if Christianity was yet more maddening because it was yet more precious?
18707	How then could this indifference be thrown off: How could the returning manhood of the nation be given a true democracy: was there still hope?
18707	How would you like it if she were to publish a magazine and call it Fanny''s First Paper?
18707	How, the_ New Witness_ asked, could members of such families feel the same about the war as an Englishman?
18707	I asked''Where?''
18707	I feel in His mercy He will, even if death is the end of it-- or the beginning shall I say?
18707	I feel like Elijah( was n''t it?)
18707	I pointed it out to him, and he said:''Do you think it matters?''
18707	I remember he asked Gilbert,"Do you like babies?"
18707	I said,''Are these tennis- balls?''
18707	I say: have you written to Thring yet?
18707	If the Christian God really made the human race, would not the human race tend to rumours and perversions of the Christian God?
18707	If the centre of our life is a certain fact, would not people far from the centre have a muddled version of that fact?
18707	If we are so made that a Son of God must deliver us, is it odd that Patagonians should dream of a Son of God?
18707	In October another meeting of the central branch was held in Essex Hall to debate"Have We Lost Liberty?"
18707	In an article entitled_ Is It Too Late?_ he defined this pessimism as"a paralysis of the mind; an impotence intrinsically unworthy of a free man."
18707	In the Notebook he had written: BOOTLACES Once I looked down at my bootlaces Who gave me my bootlaces?
18707	In the Notebook he had written: NORTH BERWICK On the sands I romped with children Do you blame me that I did not improve myself By bottling anemones?
18707	In the last part of the book,"Education or the Mistake about the Child,"he put the unanswerable question: How are we to give what we have not got?
18707	Is God compatible with Church Government?
18707	Is he in the house of his fathers or has he come unto a strange land?"
18707	Is it a man or a woman?
18707	Is it not a part of the most fundamental of all antinomies-- the greatness and the littleness of man?
18707	Is it one long dead or yet to come?
18707	Is not Shaw''s explanation at once fascinating and probable?
18707	Is that all right?
18707	Is that definite?
18707	Is that plain?
18707	Is there a Mincing Mind, of which a mincing voice is the outward and visible warning?"
18707	Is there any man who doubts that the Jewish International is unsympathetic with that full national demand?
18707	Is there anything you hold sacred?
18707	Is there no pity due to those who undergo these?
18707	Isaacs: In companies?
18707	It was just at this time that she wrote to tell Father O''Connor that Gilbert said to her"Did you think I was going to die?"
18707	It was not allowed to object to Mr. Herbert Gladstone( or is it Lord Gladstone?
18707	Just how scandalous_ was_ the Marconi scandal?
18707	Life is a problem: who sets it?
18707	Life is a story: who tells it?
18707	May he be forgiven for speaking of them at length and with pride?
18707	Meanwhile, as not wholly unconnected with the serious things, could you possibly do me a great favour?
18707	Meanwhile, what was Gilbert doing about his work at University College?
18707	Mid darkening care and clinging sin they sought their unknown home, Yet ne''er the perfect glory came-- Lord, will it ever come?
18707	Mr. Chesterton said it reminded him of an old Irishwoman:''Why do n''t you get out sideways?''
18707	My life is a howling waste-- but what matter?
18707	My necktie is on the wrong way up: my bootlaces trail half- way down Fleet St. Why not?
18707	Now, however, I am becoming personal( how else can I be sincere?).
18707	Oh who would not want such a wonderful thing As the pleasure of hearing the Eskimos sing?
18707	Or Bentley?"
18707	Or did they belong to the English Company?
18707	PRINCESS: If you lay there, would he let you escape?
18707	Please, would you be so kind to tell me, if it shall be possible for you to come next year to Prague?
18707	Potatoes, for example, are better boiled than raw-- why should we fear to be boiled into new shapes in the cauldron?
18707	Scene at Beaconsfield:"What on earth have you done with your dress- suit, Gilbert?"
18707	Shall I say of him, to whom I owe so much, let the day perish wherein he was born?
18707	Sister Madeleva:"Did he like the campus?"
18707	Sister Madeleva:"Did he walk on the campus and see the students?"
18707	Sister Madeleva:"What did he do for recreation?"
18707	Someone asked,"Did he ever get grouchy?"
18707	St. Theresa said the hardest penance was easier than mental prayer: was not much of Gilbert''s thought a contemplation?
18707	Suppose you had your choice of not reading a book by Belloc and not reading one by Spencer which would you choose?
18707	Surely Chesterton had this same inconsistency, as it were, in reverse?
18707	THE COSMIC FACTORIES What are little boys made of?
18707	That is n''t_ our_ Chesterton, is it?"
18707	The boils that shine and burrow, The sores that slough and bleed-- The leprosy of Naaman On thee and all thy seed?
18707	The bootmaker?
18707	The gigantic figure of Sunday before whom they all tremble turns from the chief of the anarchists, chief of the destructive forces, into-- what?
18707	The next question that arises is-- whom am I engaged to?
18707	The question of my youth undoubtedly was: how far can a Catholic go on the road to Socialism?
18707	The question was becoming insistent: when would there be enough money for Frances and Gilbert to get married?
18707	The real problem is-- can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity?
18707	The rebuke died on my lips: why get angry with the poor old aunts of Higgins demanding the destruction of their unconceived and inconceivable babies?
18707	The_ Louisville Post_ reported that Henry James, being asked on a visit to his native country,"What do you think of Chesterton in England?"
18707	There is a phrase used at the end, spoken by Sunday:"Can ye drink from the cup that I drink of?"
18707	These things are easier written than said, but you know it is true, do n''t you?
18707	Thou mirror of uprightness, What ails thee at thy vows, What means the risen whiteness Of skin between thy brows?
18707	Thus, in this first instance, when learned sceptics come to me and say,"Are you aware that the Kaffirs have a sort of Incarnation?"
18707	To Johnnie--"Did he take the lecture business seriously?"
18707	True, nobody read them; but was that my fault?
18707	Two of his intimate friends, finding at this time a notebook full of these horrible drawings, asked one another,"Is Chesterton going mad?"
18707	Was Chesterton for once undertaking a task beyond his knowledge?
18707	Was G.K. serious or merely posing, was he a great man or a mountebank, was he clear or obscure, was he a genius or a charlatan?
18707	Was it Chesterton himself who christened it"Baring, Overbearing and Past Bearing?"
18707	Was it accurately reported?
18707	We do not feel that it is so beautiful now-- why?
18707	Were St. Paul''s epistles an Apologia pro Vita Sua?
18707	Were the Trades Unions, from lack of leadership and confusion of thought, beginning to accept the Servile State?
18707	Were the people of England losing the appetite for freedom and for property?
18707	Were they in now?
18707	What about that play?
18707	What and where and when is"Uncommon Sense about the War?"
18707	What are these athletes worth if, after all their athletics, they can not scratch up such a thing as a natural appetite?
18707	What are these laws?
18707	What are we to say of those who have to take an anaesthetic before they can face pleasure?
18707	What can be more fundamental than food, drink, and children?
18707	What did I ever do that I should be given bootlaces?
18707	What did a week mean for most of them?
18707	What did it really mean?
18707	What do you say to a severe course of Walt Whitman-- or will marriage make him see people?
18707	What do you say?
18707	What does it matter?
18707	What happened to Swift''s Gulliver-- that most fierce attack upon the human race?
18707	What is Incarnation?
18707	What is man, that thou regardest him?
18707	What makes a man essentially English?
18707	What more can any man want?"
18707	What more does man require?
18707	What more natural than that they should think of me as a man not afraid to call himself an atheist and able to hold his own on the platform?
18707	What must this pain of adjustment not have been to a mind almost continuously creative?
18707	What of that?
18707	What of the money?
18707	What of those, who when faced with the terrors of mayonnaise eggs or sardines, can only utter a faint cry for brandy?
18707	What price the first- hand?
18707	What shall we say of him who prides himself on beginning as an intellectual cripple and ending as an intellectual corpse?
18707	What was meant by the Servile State?
18707	What was to be done about it?
18707	What would be likely to be the effect of the sudden dropping into a dreadfully evil century of a dreadfully perfect truth?
18707	What would happen if a star from heaven really fell into the slimy and bloody pool of a hopeless and decaying humanity?
18707	What would happen if a world baser than the world of Sade were confronted with a gospel purer than the gospel of Rousseau?
18707	What''s the reason?
18707	When all their lights grow dark, their lives grow gray, What will those widows and those orphans say?
18707	When one''s attempts at reformation are"not much believed in"what other course is open but a contemptuous relapse into liberty?
18707	Where ought I to be?"
18707	Who are we, to whom this cup of human life has been given, to ask for more?
18707	Who gave the bootmaker himself?
18707	Why am I allowed two?
18707	Why are not all men aware of the uniqueness of Man among the animals and the uniqueness of the Church among religions?
18707	Why did he do it?
18707	Why do you say there is no chance for this normal property and liberty?
18707	Why do you think of these things as small?
18707	Why do you think of these things as small?
18707	Why does no one say their wives dragged them away?
18707	Why had he not asked to be heard sooner by the Committee?
18707	Why had he not earlier asked the Committee to hear the story of the American shares?
18707	Why is it an answer to say we must do that to make them Distributists?
18707	Why is it possible for Mrs. Cecil to declare that he was the greater editor, to imply that he was the greater man?
18707	Why is the memory of Cecil Chesterton alive today?
18707	Why not a sermon on that?
18707	Why not a whole comedy of cross purposes based on the notion of a priest with a knowledge of evil deeper than that of the criminal he is converting?
18707	Why not do George Fox, who was released from the prisons in which Protestant England was doing its best to murder him, by the Catholic Charles II?
18707	Why should He be?
18707	Why should an evening waistcoat have four large white pearl buttons and why should he look that peculiar shape?
18707	Why should you always win and win in vain?
18707	Why was this possible?
18707	Why, after all, should I charge more than sixpence for a work it was so exuberant to write?
18707	Will you forgive me, dearest, if I reel off to the only soul that can be trusted to enjoy my enjoyment, a kind of report of the meeting?
18707	Will you take care of me?
18707	Would any human life have been long enough to develop them all?
18707	Would you undertake six further fortnightly talks from January 16th onwards?
18707	Yes?
18707	Yet how many of the men who did learn seriously could have drawn those sketches, full of crazy energy and vitality?
18707	You ask( in gruff, rumbling tones)"Who is Captain Webster?"
18707	You might unite all High Churchmen on the High Church quarrel, but what authority is to unite them when the devil declares his next war on the world?
18707	_ Ruler:_ Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader?
18707	_ Ruler:_ Will you honour the King''s English?
18707	_ What''s Wrong with the World?__ William Blake_.
18707	and followed this with the question,"Does Father O''Connor know?"
18707	are we observed?)
18707	is it your firm desire to become a Member of the Detection Club?
18707	they spake unto me by letter, saying,"Heard ye aught of him that is called Bentley?
18707	while his prototype, as we read, said,"What shall I do?"