Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
41606	Has the original position of the orbit been changed by Jupiter''s influence?
41606	Period 105 years(?)
5109	''But still, suppose I am deserving of destruction, why have the waves deserved this? 5109 36. Who hath put wisdom in the inward part?
5109	5. Who can open the doors of his face? 5109 9. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?"
5109	At_ Wu_--the Sixth Stem-- the Darkness and the Light unite_ with injurious effects_--all things become_ solid_,( frozen?
5109	But, just as they had made a beginning, a prairie- wolf rushed in, and, crying out,''Why all this trouble and embroidery?'' 5109 But,"says one,"how long did all this take?
5109	I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel; for who can resist my( his?)
5109	Is it, indeed, possible that thy wrath and punishment and vexed indignation are altogether implacable, and will go on to the end to our destruction? 5109 Then answered Ganglere,''Does fire burn over Bifrost?''
5109	What can he do? 5109 Where am I?
5109	Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? 5109 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
5109	Who,says Origen,"that has sense, can think that the first, second, and third days were without sun, moon, or stars?"
5109	[ 1] But do these comets come anywhere near the orbit of the earth? 5109 [ 1] Is not all this a striking confirmation of my theory?
5109	[ 1] Now, what is the genesis of a comet? 5109 [ 1] They counseled together, and created four men of white and yellow maize( the white and yellow races?).
5109	[ 1] Was this burned log, thus found at a depth of twenty- two feet, a relic of the great conflagration? 5109 [ 1] What other results would follow at once from contact with the comet?
5109	[ 2] How could such a universal terror have fixed itself in the blood of the race, if it had not originated from some great primeval fact? 5109 [ 3] Dr. Dawson continues:"Was the Miocene period on the whole a better age of the world than that in which we live?
5109	and live?
5109	countenance,or,"who shall stand against me"( him?)
5109	using a_ large stone_ as an auger,( the fall of stones and pebbles?)
5109	''Did the writer of Genesis invent an absurdity, or did he record an undoubted tradition?
5109	( The cave?)
5109	13 V. WAS IT CAUSED By GLACIERS?
5109	A voice spake:"Shall mortal man be more just than God?
5109	After the creation of the herbs and plants, what came next?
5109	Again the myth reappears; this time among the Norsemen: Balder, the bright sun,( Baal?)
5109	Again: where did the clay, which is deposited in such gigantic masses, hundreds of feet thick, over the continents, come from?
5109	Among the Esquimaux the soul crosses an awful gulf over a stretched rope, until it reaches the abode of"the great female evil spirit below"( beyond?)
5109	And by what means was_ the uniform thickness of the copper produced_?
5109	And did the Miztec barbarians, in their vanity, claim descent from these monstrous creatures of the sky?
5109	And dost thou give this as my recompense?
5109	And dost thou give this as my recompense?
5109	And how could the washings of rivers have made this uniform sheet, reaching over the whole length and half the breadth of this continent?
5109	And how did mankind come to be reduced to a handful?
5109	And if God has not done this terrible deed, who has done it?
5109	And if it occurred in that age, why do we hear nothing more about so extraordinary an event in the history of the Jews or of any other people?
5109	And if man was not or had not yet been on earth, whence could the name Heaven have been derived?
5109	And men have said:"Call ye this real history, or inspired narrative?
5109	And on the walls were tablets, and on one of them were inscribed these solemn words:"''Where are the kings and the peoples of the earth?
5109	And then the question arises, How did they hit upon a lie that accords so completely with the revelations of science?
5109	And thou sayest, How doth God know?
5109	And what do they affirm?
5109	And what greater guarantee of the future can we have than evolution?
5109	And what has all this to do with a darkness that cometh in the day- time in which the wicked grope helplessly?
5109	And what is I end that I should keep patience?"
5109	And when did God in{ p. 304} the natural order of things overturn mountains by the roots?
5109	And where is that which they collected and boarded?
5109	And who shall say that the material of all comets assumes the same form?
5109	And why does the record, in each case, tell us that the evening and the morning"constituted the day, instead of the morning and the evening?
5109	And why this recurrence of the word flint, so common in the Central American legends and religions?
5109	And why, if warm rains occurred in all ages, were not all the earlier rocks similarly changed while they were at the surface?
5109	And, on this last hypothesis, is this brightness owing to a kind of phosphorescence, or to the state of incandescence of the nucleus?
5109	Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?"
5109	Are not these statements incompatible?"
5109	Are they not there?
5109	Are they something, or the next thing to nothing?
5109	At last the Rabbit brings a round object,( the Sun?
5109	At last the dormouse undertook it, for at this time the dormouse was the largest animal in the world"( the mastodon?
5109	Blindness( darkness?)
5109	But again I ask, when in the natural order of events was dust poured on the earth and hardened into clods, like molten metal?
5109	But another says:"Why do you think the finer parts of the material of the comet are carried farthest back from the head?"
5109	But can you escape the facts by shrinking back?
5109	But did the earth escape with a mere shower of fireworks?
5109	But how about the markings, the_ striæ_, on the face of the surface- rocks below the Drift?
5109	But how can Bifrost mean the rainbow?
5109	But how can one curse a past period of time and ask the darkness to cover it?
5109	But how could the word"replenish"be applied to a new world, never before inhabited?
5109	But how did the human race fare in this miserable time?
5109	But how did the water change instantly from salt to fresh?
5109	But is not the attempt worth making?
5109	But it may be asked:"Are you right in supposing that man first rose to civilization in a great Atlantic island?
5109	But may they not also possess a light of their own?
5109	But one day the evil- one came, as in the Bible legend the Prince of the_ Rakchasos_( Raknaros-- Ragnarok?)
5109	But one other question remains: Did the Drift material come from the comet?
5109	But the south part of Ginungagap was lighted up by the_ glowing sparks_ that flew out of Muspelheim''( Africa?).
5109	But was it sudden?
5109	But what became of that elevation afterward?
5109	But what would make it move southward?
5109	But when the lemon and the banana grew in Spitzbergen, as geology assures us they did in pre- glacial days, where was the cold to come from?
5109	But where did the nitric acid come from?
5109	But where is the human race?
5109	But where were the rest of the assets of these bankrupt comets?
5109	But where were they?
5109	But why should there be warm rains at this particular period?
5109	But_ did_ the land rise up in this extraordinary fashion?
5109	By touching the corpse of his mother( the sun?)
5109	COULD A COMET STRIKE THE EARTH?
5109	COULD A COMET STRIKE THE EARTH?
5109	Can I live in a world where such things are to continue?
5109	Can all this be accident?
5109	Can all this mean nothing?
5109	Can any one suppose that this primitive people invented all this?
5109	Can he judge_ through the dark cloud?_"14.
5109	Can not the greed for information do one tenth as much as the greed for profit?
5109	Can these words then be of general application, and mean that those who lie down and rise not shall not awake for ever?
5109	Can we conceive of a force that was powerful enough to grind up the solid rocks, and yet was not able to remove its own_ débris_?
5109	Can we imagine a person, who never saw or heard of an elephant, drawing a picture of such a two- tailed creature?
5109	Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
5109	Could all this have been invented?
5109	Could all this orderly nature have grown up out of chance, out of the accidental concatenation of atoms?
5109	Could it be possible?
5109	Could such language properly be applied, even by the wildest stretch of poetic fancy, to a whale or a crocodile, or any other monster of the deep?
5109	DID MAN EXIST BEFORE THE DRIFT?
5109	DID MAN EXIST BEFORE THE DRIFT?
5109	Did God know no more about the nature of the heavens than this?"
5109	Did anything out of the usual order occur on the face of the earth about this time?
5109	Did ice grind this out of the granite?
5109	Did it originate out of it?
5109	Did not God do this very thing when he permitted the comet to strike the earth?
5109	Did the ice intelligently pick out a particular kind of rock, and that the hardest of them all?
5109	Do these descend upon the flat country?
5109	Do these lie in the track of the great collision?
5109	Do we not find his typical picture, with those great mule- tufts,( referred to by Professor Winchell,) the hare- like ears, on this coin of Illinois?
5109	Does this typify the fate of the world when the great catastrophe occurred?
5109	Doubtless, the inscribed tablets, by which the art of writing survived to the race; for what would tablets be without inscriptions?
5109	Escaped from what?
5109	FIRST, let us ask ourselves this question, Did man exist before the Drift?
5109	For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
5109	For whom should God have named it, if there were no human ears to catch the sound?
5109	From his physical disease?
5109	Has it been formed in space?
5109	Has the book of Job anything to do with that great event which we have been discussing?
5109	Hast thou entered into_ the storehouses of the snow_, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the_ hail?_".
5109	Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
5109	Hast thou marked_ the old way_ which wicked men have trodden?
5109	Hath he not seen the vanity and wickedness of man?
5109	Have you not been told that the gods made a bridge from earth to heaven, which is called Bifrost?
5109	He beholdeth under all the heavens,"( he is seen under all the heavens?)
5109	He says:"8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb?
5109	He, seeing all things destroyed, spoke thus to Monau:''Wilt thou also destroy the heavens and their garniture?
5109	Hermod, mounted on Odin''s horse, Sleifner, the slippery- one,( the ice?)
5109	His children are far from safety,"( far from any place of refuge?)
5109	How can I ever survive this great tempest?
5109	How can I, that am so mean and worthless, dare to appear before thy majesty?
5109	How can my strength stand the crushing of these stones?
5109	How can the stones of the field be in league with man?
5109	How closely does all this agree with Hesiod''s description of the shaking earth and the universal conflict of nature?
5109	How could his work have been so imperfect?
5109	How did it come to be?
5109	How did the ice pick out its materials so as to grind_ nothing but granite_?
5109	How did they get to Africa, Asia, and America?"
5109	How does the ordinary summer rain falling on the earth set up the low and destroy the wealthy?
5109	How else can these words be interpreted?
5109	How is the water in the clouds transferred to the clouds from the seas?
5109	How long ago, then, must it have been that the race lived there whose pavements and cisterns of Roman brick now lie_ seventy feet underground_?"
5109	How was it born?
5109	How?
5109	How?
5109	I quote from the"_ Younger Edda, The Creation_":"Then asked Ganglere,''What is the path from earth to heaven?''"
5109	IN the first place, are comets composed of solid, liquid, or gaseous substances?
5109	If a man speak, surely_ he shall be swallowed up?_"And then God talks to Job,( chap.
5109	If he_ cut off_ and_ shut up_ and_ gather together_, who can hinder him?
5109	If it was not caused by contact with a comet,_ what was it_?
5109	If neither waves, nor icebergs, nor glaciers, nor ice- sheets, nor comets, produced this world- cloak of_ débris_, where did it come from?
5109	If the Arctic ice- sheet does not create such a clay now, why did it create it centuries ago on the plains of England or Illinois?
5109	If the Drift of North America was due to the ice- sheet, why is there no drift- deposit in"the driftless region"of the Northwestern States of America?
5109	If the cold formed the ice and the ice formed the Drift, why is there no Drift in the coldest regions of the earth, where there must have been ice?
5109	If these clays were made from land- washings, how comes it that in some places they are red, in others blue, in others yellow?
5109	If this be not the true interpretation of Job, who, let me ask, can explain all these allusions to harmonize with the established order of nature?
5109	If this has been the case for two thousand years, why would they not remain unchanged for ten thousand, for a hundred thousand years?
5109	If this is not the interpretation, for what would Job dig about him?
5109	In that I supply green leaves to the_ cattle_, and_ corn_, a wholesome food for mankind, and_ frankincense_ for yourselves?"
5109	In the dense masses of clouds?
5109	In the first place, was it sudden?
5109	Is it an outcome of that pure carbon which the spectroscope has revealed to us as burning in some of the comets?
5109	Is it not time to discharge the race from its labors?
5109	Is it the great sword of Surt?
5109	Is my flesh brass, that it will not burn up?
5109	Is my strength the_ strength of stones?_ Or is my flesh of brass?"
5109	Is my strength the_ strength of stones?_ Or is my flesh of brass?"
5109	Is not all this wonderful?
5109	Is not this written in the book of Jasher?
5109	Is there any other allusion besides this to the fire which accompanied the comet in Genesis?
5109	Is there anything else in this dislocated text that refers to this first creation?
5109	Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?
5109	Is there to be no mercy nor pity for us until the_ arrows of thy fury are spent?_.
5109	Is this the meaning of the"_ turbid_ chaos"?
5109	It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword"( the comet?)
5109	It may be asked,"How does your theory account for the removal of great blocks, weighing many tons, for hundreds of miles from their original site?
5109	It may be asked:"What relation, in order of time, do you suppose the Drift Age to hold to the Deluge of Noah and Deucalion?"
5109	Job''s disease?
5109	Let us turn to the next question: Was it an extraordinary event, a world- shaking cataclysm?
5109	Now it may be said that all this is a strained construction; but what construction can be substituted that will make sense of these allusions?
5109	On what sea- shore, in what river- beds, was this incalculable mass of clay, gravel, and stones found?
5109	One commentator makes this read:"Under him the whales below heaven bend,"( the crooked leviathan?)
5109	Or who has stretched the line upon it?
5109	Or who hath given understanding to the heart?"
5109	Or who laid the corner- stone thereof?
5109	Or why, if it did form on it, did it refuse to tear up the rock- surfaces and form Drift?
5109	Otherwise, how can we understand how God, as stated in the preceding verse, has just made the heavens{ p. 330} and the earth?
5109	Out of whose womb came the_ ice_?
5109	Peradventure, hast thou altogether forsaken thy nation and thy people?
5109	READER,--Let us reason together:-- What do we dwell on?
5109	Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
5109	Shall friends"( Septuagint,"the nations") cut him in pieces, shall merchants"( Septuagint,"the generation of the Phœnicians")"divide him?"
5109	Shall it be told him that I speak?
5109	Shall not his excellency make you afraid?
5109	Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
5109	Solon, hearing this, said,''What do you mean?''
5109	Still the heat is intense-- how long it lasts, who shall tell?
5109	That is to say, how can I ever bold out?
5109	That is to say, why did I not die before this great calamity fell on the earth, and before I saw it?
5109	The Rabbit said he came because his grandmother had altogether_ beaten the life out of him_"( the fallen_ débris_?).
5109	The earth_ is given into the hands of the wicked:_ he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if it be not him, who is it then?"
5109	The original birthplace of the human race who shall tell?
5109	The scratched stones we may occasionally find,_ but where is the clay?_.
5109	The_ grinders of thy teeth_"( the dragon''s teeth of Ovid?)
5109	Then the gods"( the chiefs?)
5109	Then was Libya"( Sahara?)
5109	These latter attacked him with murderous intent( the comet assailed the sun?
5109	They say the Great Spirit made Mount Shasta first:"_ Boring a hole in the sky_,"( the heavens cleft in twain of the Edda?)
5109	This as the reward of my fertility and of my duty, in that_ I endure wounds from the crooked plow and harrows_, and am harassed all the year through?
5109	This last line shows how greatly the original text has been garbled; what have the cattle to do with it?
5109	To what whale or crocodile can these words be applied?
5109	WAS IT CAUSED BY A CONTINENTAL ICE- SHEET?
5109	WAS IT CAUSED BY CONTINENTAL ICE- SHEETS?
5109	WAS IT CAUSED BY ICEBERGS?
5109	WAS IT CAUSED BY ICEBERGS?
5109	WAS PRE- GLACIAL MAN CIVILIZED?
5109	WAS PRE- GLACIAL MAN CIVILIZED?
5109	WE come now to another and very interesting question: In what stage of development was mankind when the Drift fell upon the earth?
5109	WHAT IS A COMET?
5109	WHAT IS A COMET?
5109	WHAT is a glacier?
5109	Was it a catastrophe?
5109	Was this"thick air"the air thick with comet- dust, which afterward became the mud?
5109	Was this, too, the result of a comet visitation?
5109	We, indeed,_ have seen the sun_, but they-- now that his golden light begins to appear, where are they?"
5109	Were these"hideous beings"the comets?
5109	What are the proofs of my proposition that man survived on an Atlantic island?
5109	What are these solid materials?
5109	What became of it?
5109	What became of them?
5109	What caused the ice?
5109	What conclusion is forced upon us?
5109	What condition of ice can be imagined that would_ smash_ rocks, that would beat them like a maul, that would_ indent_ them?
5109	What could obscure them but dense clouds?
5109	What did these gases consist of?
5109	What do they get out of all this abundant and beautiful world?
5109	What do we infer?
5109	What does all this indicate?
5109	What does all this mean?
5109	What does existence give to them?
5109	What does this mean?
5109	What dramatist or novelist has ever yet made a plot which did not consist of events that had already transpired somewhere on earth?
5109	What earthly creature could terrify the angels in heaven?
5109	What earthly creature has ever breathed fire?
5109	What effect would these gases have upon our atmosphere?
5109	What has this Arabian poem to do with so many allusions to clouds, rain, ice, snow, hail, frost, and_ frozen oceans_?
5109	What is it?
5109	What is my strength that I can hold out?
5109	What is necessary to evaporation?
5109	What is rain in the first instance?
5109	What is the crooked serpent?
5109	What is the meaning Of FLINT here?
5109	What is the meaning of all this?
5109	What is the meaning of the whole poem?
5109	What is the proof of this?
5109	What next?
5109	What next?
5109	What next?
5109	What obscured them?
5109	What part of the earth?
5109	What relation can digging have with the disease which afflicted Job?
5109	What rivers intersect a rainbow?
5109	What rod-- what fear?
5109	What separated these various deposits?
5109	What was Python doing?
5109	What was it?
5109	What would be the result?
5109	What, now, are the elements of the problem to be solved?
5109	What,--he said to him,--can Solomon do to thee,"when thou art in the midst of this great sea?"
5109	When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise,_ and the night be gone?_ and I am full of tossings to and fro unto_ the dawning of the day_."
5109	When did they ever shed gold or stones?
5109	When has the sun refused to rise?
5109	When in history have the waters failed from the sea?
5109	When was_ the dust poured on the earth_, and the_ clods hardened together_?"
5109	Whence are the clouds derived?
5109	When{ p. 302} otherwise did the day and night come to an end?
5109	Where are Canaan and Pharaoh?
5109	Where are Korah and Haman?
5109	Where are the continents to be found which are composed of granite and nothing but granite?
5109	Where are the kings of the foreigners and the Arabs?
5109	Where are the kings of the regions of the earth"Where are the Amalekites?
5109	Where are the lords of high degree?
5109	Where are the mighty monarchs?
5109	Where are the troops?
5109	Where are those exposures of granite on the face of the earth from which ice or water could have ground them?
5109	Where did he live?
5109	Where did it come from?
5109	Where did it get the granite?
5109	Where did the clouds come from?
5109	Where did the heat come from?
5109	Where did the material of the Drift come from?
5109	Where is Sheddad, the son of Add?
5109	Where shall he save him?
5109	Where was"the island of the innocent"?
5109	Where were the continents, of any kind, from which these washings came?
5109	Where would the air cool first?
5109	Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
5109	Which were cut down out of time,_ whose foundation was overflown with a flood?_""20.
5109	Which were( was?)
5109	Who can tell what extraordinary revelations wait below the vast mass of American glacial clay?
5109	Who hath given understanding to the comet to do this work?
5109	Who shall count the ebbs and flows of eternity?
5109	Who shall say how far great revolutions and wars and other perturbations of humanity have been due to similar modifications?
5109	Who shall say how often this planet has been developed up to the highest forms of life, and how often all this has been obliterated in universal fire?
5109	Who shall say what circumstances accompanied an event great enough to crack the globe itself into immense fissures?
5109	Who shall say?
5109	Who shall tell the age of this old earth?
5109	Why did not the advancing ice- sheet drive these deposits southward over the plains of the United States?
5109	Why did they not appear?
5109	Why has thy brother''( Neptune)''deserved it?
5109	Why should I live, since there is none other of my kind?
5109	Why should a general cause produce only local results?
5109	Why should the ice have left this oasis, and refused to form on it?
5109	Why should the ice- sheet move southward?
5109	Why should the religious world shrink from the theory of evolution?
5109	Why should we refuse to accept this statement?
5109	Why was there no interval of brackish water, during which the blue and yellow clays would have gradually shaded into each other?
5109	Why were_ they_ not ground up with the granite?
5109	Why?
5109	Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?
5109	Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
5109	Will these trees, That have outlived the eagle, page thy steps And skip, when thou point''st out?"
5109	Would a comet meet all these prerequisites?
5109	Would the comet furnish us with such heat?
5109	Wrought what?
5109	Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is be?"
5109	_ But by what means were they etched_?
5109	_ For the great day of his wrath is come_, and who shall be able to stand?"
5109	_ The flames went up to the very heavens, and melted many stars_, SO THAT THEY RAINED DOWN IN MOLTEN METAL UPON THE EARTH, forming the ore"[ gold?]
5109	_ and his dread fall upon you?_"12.
5109	and the_ frost_ from heaven, who hath gendered it?
5109	henceforth where will be our home?
5109	is hell any worse than this?
5109	or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
5109	that the peopled place become a wooded hill and_ a wilderness of stones?_.
5109	vii):"12: Am I sea or a whale,_ that thou hast inclosed me in a prison?_""7.
5109	was one moment in the northeast, and the next moment had whirled away into the northwest?
5109	xl, v. 20):"Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a book, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?"
5109	{ p. 137} Was this jagged, white, sickle- shaped object a comet?
5109	{ p. 155} this chariot; and yet, what have we greater than Jupiter?
5109	{ p. 17} CHAPTER V. WAS IT CAUSED BY GLACIERS?
5109	{ p. 191} Who would dare, among ourselves, to alter a syllable of the"Lord''s Prayer"?
5109	{ p. 290} Who can doubt that these widely separated legends refer to the same event and the same patriarch?
5109	{ p. 300} What is the meaning of all this?
5109	{ p. 311}"4. Who can discover the face of his garment?
5109	{ p. 318}"How,"it is asked,"could there be night and day and vegetation without a sun?"
5109	{ p. 354} axe- kerf made by some civilized man who wielded a bronze or iron weapon?
5109	{ p. 35} Can any one suppose that ice could so discriminate?
5109	{ p. 389} again in vegetation?
5109	{ p. 392} Set aside my theory as absurd, and how much nearer are you to solving the problem?
5109	{ p. 410} Did the Fenris- Wolf, the Midgard- Serpent, and the Dog- Garm look like this?
5109	{ p. 436} Who shall say?