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.
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2931 | Did either of these original specimens, on which Von Wurmb''s descriptions are based, ever reach Europe? |
2933 | Can either be shown to fill up or diminish, to any appreciable extent, the structural interval which exists between Man and the man- like apes? |
2933 | Was the oldest''Homo sapiens''pliocene or miocene, or yet more ancient? |
2933 | Where, then, must we look for primaeval Man? |
35329 | Are these the highest forms of life that the country contains? 35329 May there not have been roving tribes there, and from them the place was designatedWandering Land"? |
35329 | The"image of God"and"living soul"may be the same, but why the change? |
35329 | What being is that sitting on yon fallen tree? |
35329 | Where did Cain get his wife, and why did he build a city? |
35329 | Who were the"sons of God,"and who the"daughters of men"? |
35329 | Why not call him the first great prototype of the human race? |
35329 | Why not the daughters of God? |
43728 | How could they do otherwise? |
43728 | Is there not an ocean of enigmas yet to be fathomed, a gold- mine of knowledge yet to be explored? |
43728 | Is there not poverty to be remedied, pain to be alleviated, ignorance to be removed? |
43728 | Is there not still plenty of labor for him to perform? |
43728 | Was man then inherently depraved and prone to evil continually? |
43728 | What is man''s future policy? |
6710 | But how can we reconcile this view with the known facts of evolution? |
6710 | This probably occurred in the Platode ancestors of most( or all?) |
6710 | What can we deduce from this with regard to our own genealogy? |
28471 | Carrying this consideration farther, it may be asked, Of what use are the five toes to man? |
28471 | If man has gone through such an extended course of development, why has he left no remains? |
28471 | Shall we offer a suggestion as to this new use? |
28471 | These considerations bring us to an important question: Why did the man- ape gain a length of arm not the best suited to its arboreal habitat? |
28471 | Why, in fact, do changes in physical structure ever take place? |
28471 | Would not a solid foot have answered the purpose of walking quite as well? |
2932 | But is this really so? |
2932 | Could not a sensible child confute by obvious arguments, the shallow rhetoricians who would force this conclusion upon us? |
2932 | Is he something apart? |
2932 | Is mother- love vile because a hen shows it, or fidelity base because dogs possess it? |
2932 | Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them? |
6430 | Are the germinal layers composed of cells, and what is their relation to the cells of the tissues that form later? |
6430 | How can we explain this curious anomaly? |
6430 | How does the ovum stand in the cellular theory? |
6430 | Human ovum of twelve to thirteen days(?). |
6430 | Is the ovum itself a cell, or is it composed of cells? |
6430 | The reader will ask:"Where are the mouth and the anus?" |
6430 | What is the relation of the cells to the germinal layers? |
6430 | What, then, is this"organic species"? |
6430 | When we look back on this period we may ask, What has been accomplished during it by the fundamental law of biogeny? |
15293 | Which was there first, geography or history? |
15293 | But who could ever conceive of dislodging the Chinese or the close- packed millions of India? |
15293 | Do the Socialists hint to us the geographic basis of this new development, when they describe themselves as an international political party? |
15293 | Does this mean emancipation? |
15293 | For the same reason they leave their boundaries undefined; a mile nearer or farther, what does it matter? |
15293 | Hence we can not avoid the question: Are we in process of evolving a social idea vaster than that underlying nationality? |
15293 | If so, from what source? |
15293 | Or will the local pattern repeat itself over and over with dull uniformity? |
15293 | What is the material of warp and woof? |
15293 | What of the great man in this geographical interpretation of history? |
15293 | Whence and how did it get there? |
15293 | Will new threads enter to vary the color and design? |
17239 | Are we to regard the Creator''s work as like that of a child, who builds houses out of blocks, just for the pleasure of knocking them down? |
17239 | Has all this work been done for nothing? |
17239 | In such case, why should we regard Man as in any higher sense the object of Divine care than a pig? |
17239 | In the cruel strife of centuries has it not often seemed as if the earth were to be rather the prize of the hardest heart and the strongest fist? |
17239 | Indeed, why should it? |
17239 | Is it all ephemeral, all a bubble that bursts, a vision that fades? |
17239 | When have we ever before held such a clew to the meaning of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount? |
44541 | --In what Respects is the Human Outer Ear a Rudimentary Organ? |
44541 | Are these due to a state of perfection which can not be improved upon? |
44541 | But whence this most remote group of Tetrapoda? |
44541 | For example: Is the stag swift because he has long and slender legs, or are his legs long because he is swift? |
44541 | Innumerable, almost endless, slow changes require seemingly unlimited time, and as time is endless, why not draw upon it_ ad libitum_? |
44541 | Is it likely in the case of our frogs that an almost imperceptible variation in colour makes them more fit to live? |
44541 | No general problem in zoology and botany, in anatomy and physiology, can be discussed without the question arising, How has this problem originated? |
44541 | What are the real causes of its development? |
44541 | What is the regulating factor? |
44541 | Why, indeed, unless they are caused by external influences? |
44541 | [ 7] G. Schwalbe,''In wiefern ist die menschliche Ohrmuschel ein rudimentäres Organ?'' |
43618 | ''What will you have?'' |
43618 | And can the slaughter of an innocent victim take away the sins of mankind? |
43618 | And yet how important some of the even trivial ones really are? |
43618 | Can a new wrong expiate old wrongs? |
43618 | How few of these vital conditions, from a physical standpoint, are under our control? |
43618 | We have looked at a few of the phases of human existence; what shall be said of the value of life? |
43618 | What love can a man possess who believes that the destruction of life will atone for evil deeds? |
43618 | What then is the meaning of this-- is humanity traveling in cycles? |
30429 | But here the question arises, can it be manifested inwardly without such a transformation of energy? |
30429 | Can we longer refuse to believe that even thought force is in some mysterious way correlated to the other natural forces? |
30429 | God is infinite, and therefore includes nature; but is nature all? |
30429 | In absence of antecedents, what was the cause of this fire- mist-- of these forces active in it? |
30429 | Is it possible, then, that the protoplasm which produces the mould is exactly the same composition as that which produces the human child? |
30429 | O death, where is thy sting? |
30429 | O grave, where is thy victory?" |
30429 | Or is the evolution of thought entirely independent of the matter of the brain? |
30429 | Returning now to our protoplasm, let us ask the question: Where did it come from? |
30429 | The question naturally arises, is there any explanation for the loss of hair covering? |
30429 | WAS MAN CREATED? |
30429 | What will be the result of this? |
30429 | What, then, has science demonstrated? |
30429 | What, then, is a true conscience? |
30429 | [ 48]"Can we longer doubt,"says Barker,[49]"that the brain too, is a machine for the conversion of energy? |
30429 | _ Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?_ No. |
30429 | and,_ à fortiori_, between all four? |
30429 | or, How did it come into existence? |
6335 | What, then, is this order of Bimana of Blumenbach and Cuvier? 6335 ( asterisk) Equus( fossilis?). 6335 ( asterisk) Hippopotamus( major?). 6335 ( asterisk) Ursus( sp.?). 6335 Among these are the teeth of Elephas antiquus, determined by Dr. Falconer, and Rhinoceros leptorhinus? 6335 Are we then to conclude that differences in mental power have no intimate connection with the comparative volume of the brain? 6335 Cyclas( Pisidium) amnica var.(?) 6335 Cyclas( Pisidium) amnica var.? 6335 Equus asinus(?) 6335 In what manner then did the great lake- basins originate if they were not hollowed out by ice? 6335 Might not the births of new species, like the deaths of old ones, be sudden? 6335 Might they not still escape our observation? 6335 Ursus arctos? 6335 We might have anticipated a contrary leaning on the part of both, for to what does the theory of progression point? 6335 What evidence is there of such incessant variation in remoter times? 6335 Where are the memorials of all the intermediate dialects, which must have existed, if this doctrine of perpetual fluctuation be true? 6335 major? 46379 And could he have done this without the opposition, and apparently with the approval, of the priests and the people? 46379 And what did the birds and creeping things feed upon? 46379 And what sort of magicians must they have been who could do the same with their enchantments? 46379 But where did they get their tin, without which there is no bronze? 46379 Could it have come down the Euphrates or Tigris and been exported from the great sea- ports of Eridhu or Ur by way of the Persian Gulf and Red Sea? 46379 Did he perchance jump at one bound from Ararat to the Antipodes? 46379 Does pre- glacial mean Pliocene, or is it included in the Quaternary? 46379 How can this be reconciled with the theory of evolution and the descent of man from some animal ancestor common to him and the other quadrumana? 46379 How could Egypt have got its tin even from the nearest known source? 46379 How did he get across the equatorial zone, in which only a tropical fauna, including the tropical Negro, can now live and flourish? 46379 How did polar bears, lemmings, and snowy owls live in a temperature suited for monkeys and humming- birds? 46379 How did the kangaroo get there, if he is descended from a pair preserved in the Ark? 46379 How do we know this? 46379 How does this affect the most characteristic of all Quaternary forms, that of man? 46379 No man of good faith can honestly say that he believes it to be true; and, if not true, what becomes of inspiration? 46379 On what are the distinctions of the human race founded? 46379 The next question was, what did these words mean, and could they be recognized in any known language? 46379 The question is, how far back can any of these races be identified? 46379 What chance would Tertiary caves have of surviving such an extensive denudation? 46379 What is the reason of this? 46379 When did the Pliocene end and the Quaternary begin? 46379 Where did this water come from, and where did it go to? 46379 Why did men take to living in dark and damp caves? 46379 Why, if all are descended from the same pair of ancestors, and have spread from the same spot by migration? 46379 Within which of the two did the first great glacial period fall? 46379 and to which do the oldest human remains belong, such as the skeletons of Spy? 50969 And that''s the hypothetical route of the unknown ancestor?" |
50969 | And you did n''t stop? |
50969 | And you think that where the two ends of the curve cross is your original home? |
50969 | Aside from the sudden illness of your pilot, why did you ask for me? |
50969 | Camp, did you say? |
50969 | Can you be sure? |
50969 | Can you think of a better explanation? |
50969 | Did we? 50969 Did you have to tell me that?" |
50969 | Did you want them? |
50969 | Do I have the right to condemn the unborn? 50969 Do you mind if I ask other questions?" |
50969 | Do you think it will work? |
50969 | Have you found out how it got on? |
50969 | How can anyone be sure on a theoretical basis? |
50969 | How did our ancestors live? 50969 How long has this been going on?" |
50969 | How? |
50969 | Insects? 50969 Is he?" |
50969 | Is that the only era that satisfies the calculations? |
50969 | Is there something wrong with the plants? |
50969 | It''s almost a curse, is n''t it? |
50969 | More than a man? |
50969 | Pests on the ship? 50969 Ready?" |
50969 | The math is accurate? |
50969 | Then you believe it changed mentally as well as physically, that it''s smarter? |
50969 | Then you know where it is? |
50969 | There may be things we can learn from them in mechanics or physics, but would n''t you say they were better biologists than anything else? |
50969 | Were the puppets exactly like the pests? 50969 What did you find in the ruins?" |
50969 | What do you expect to gain from this discovery of the unknown ancestor? |
50969 | What happened to those who did n''t develop space travel? |
50969 | What if they''re smarter? 50969 What is it, some kind of toxic condition?" |
50969 | What kind of creatures are they? |
50969 | What makes you think they were afraid? |
50969 | What''s it like? |
50969 | What''s the difference between the Ribboneer contract and the one we offered you? 50969 When will we land?" |
50969 | Where are they? |
50969 | Where are we now? |
50969 | Who knows? 50969 Who would have thought it? |
50969 | Why did you ever have anything to do with me? |
50969 | Why not make a play for Kelburn? 50969 Why should I? |
50969 | Why should I? |
50969 | Would it be wrong? |
50969 | You knew this and did n''t tell us? |
50969 | You''ve heard of the adjacency mating principle? |
50969 | You''ve never seen any pictures? 50969 *****Why do we have to watch it on the screen?" |
50969 | And if not, will the pests be fooled?" |
50969 | Besides what? |
50969 | But had there been any reason to assume that they would confine their exploration to one direction? |
50969 | How could he still feel that attraction to her? |
50969 | Is that wrong?" |
50969 | Is there anything else you can tell me about the hypothetical ancestor?" |
50969 | It had overshadowed much of their thinking, and who really knew what the ancestor was like and what had motivated him? |
50969 | Should I make them start lower than I am?" |
50969 | Still, what are the incentives?" |
50969 | Suppose they know a knife ca n''t be used by a creature without real hands?" |
50969 | The difference? |
50969 | This being was a slug of some kind-- and are you now what it describes? |
50969 | Was it some kind of communication? |
50969 | Was she pretty? |
50969 | Was there any significance in that, wondered Halden, or was he reading more in her behavior than was actually there? |
50969 | Were they all that way, every one of them, crawling upward out of the slime toward the highest goal they could conceive of? |
50969 | Who else had such an origin and, it was tacitly assumed, such a destiny? |
50969 | Who takes the trouble to leave a planet uninhabitable except someone who''s afraid others will use it-- and who else runs away?" |
50969 | Why?" |
50969 | _ He_ had n''t intended, but could he say that was true of the institutions backing the expedition? |
42741 | *+{{ O. Longmynd, Huronian? |
42741 | *+{{{ Acadian, etc.? |
42741 | *+{{{ Menevian? |
42741 | But is it really so? |
42741 | But is this all? |
42741 | But is this all? |
42741 | But we have still to ask the old question,"Whence the atoms?" |
42741 | But what becomes of the coal which is burnt in yielding the interest? |
42741 | But what is chalk? |
42741 | But what is the evidence of the deposits formed at this period? |
42741 | But what was taking place meanwhile in the oceanic areas separating our plateaus? |
42741 | Can we attribute the perfection of the watch to"accidental material operations"any more then the first effort to produce such an instrument? |
42741 | Can we infer anything further as to the laws of creation from these Silurian multitudes of living things? |
42741 | Do not all living things rise from a simpler to a more complex state? |
42741 | Do they cease to be so when the man ceases to be conscious of them? |
42741 | Do we know anything of law in the case of life? |
42741 | Does this indicate direct genetic connection, or only like conditions in the external world correlated with likeness in the organic world? |
42741 | For how can any one paint chaos, or give form and filling to the formless void? |
42741 | Has the earth no earlier history? |
42741 | How these several views accord with what we actually know as the result of scientific investigation? |
42741 | Is it likely to have germinated in the brain of an ape? |
42741 | Is it not certain, en the contrary, that the Fuegian is merely a degraded variety of the aboriginal American race? |
42741 | Is it true, however, that the modern knowledge of nature tends to rob it of a spiritual First Cause? |
42741 | Of what use were the Devonian forests? |
42741 | Still future(?) |
42741 | This digression prepares the way for the question: Was the Miocene period on the whole a better age of the world then that in which we live? |
42741 | This"--wish that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul?" |
42741 | To what does this point? |
42741 | To what is this related, with reference to conditions of existence? |
42741 | Was the length of the Mesozoic time equal to that of the Palæozoic? |
42741 | We have to ask, What is gravitation itself, unless a mode of action of Almighty power? |
42741 | Were there no herbs or trees to drink in the rains and flourish in the sunshine? |
42741 | Were there no land animals to prowl along the low tidal flats in search of food? |
42741 | Were they enormous birds? |
42741 | Were they the first- born of land snails? |
42741 | What can be more widely contrasted then a newly- born child and the small gelatinous spherule constituting the human ovum? |
42741 | What does he give us in exchange? |
42741 | What if there were still earlier plants, whose remains are still to be discovered? |
42741 | What inhabitants have these forests? |
42741 | What is implied in the idea of creation? |
42741 | What is implied in the idea of evolution as applied to man? |
42741 | What is the actual fact with regard to these animals, so confidently affirmed to resemble some not very remote ancestors of ours? |
42741 | What mere animal ever had or could attain to such an experience? |
42741 | What then are these oldest rocks deposited by the sea-- the first- born of the reign of the waters? |
42741 | What were these portentous creatures-- bird, beast, or reptile? |
42741 | What, then, is the actual statement of the theory of creation as it may be held by a modern man of science? |
42741 | Who that saw them trodden under foot lay the reptile aristocracy of the Mesozoic could have divined their destiny? |
42741 | Why, then, are so many men of science disposed to ignore altogether this view of the matter? |
42741 | Would it not be absolutely impossible that man should have originated in such a country? |
42741 | Yet why should these tyrants of creation so utterly disappear without waiting for us to make war on them? |
42741 | and if so, of what possible use would it be in the struggle of a merely physical existence? |
42741 | and what is the unknown third term which must have been the means of setting up these relations? |
42741 | has not the history of the earth displayed a gradually increasing elevation and complexity? |
38145 | Can we not upset every standard? 38145 113= Christianity as Antiquity.=--When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ringing, we ask ourselves: Is it possible? 38145 34= For Tranquility.=--But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? 38145 54= Falsehood.=--Why do men, as a rule, speak the truth in the ordinary affairs of life? 38145 70= Execution.=--How comes it that every execution causes us more pain than a murder? 38145 A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one_ can_ knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? 38145 All this for a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was God''s son? 38145 And if we are dupes are we not on that very account dupers also? 38145 Are these moral deeds miracles because they are, in Schopenhauer''s phraseimpossible and yet accomplished"? |
38145 | As the brain inquires: whence these impressions of light and color? |
38145 | Besides, what is the burning alive of one individual compared with eternal hell pains for everybody else? |
38145 | But how can these motives be distinguished from the desire for truth? |
38145 | But is there any sort of intentional injury in which our existence and the maintenance of our well being be not involved? |
38145 | But the general universal sciences, considered as a great, basic unity, posit the question-- truly a very living question--: to what purpose? |
38145 | But where are there psychologists to- day? |
38145 | But who bothers his head about the theologians any more-- except the theologians themselves? |
38145 | But who is capable of it? |
38145 | But why is the richest and most harmless source of entertainment thus allowed to run to waste? |
38145 | Does a huge boulder lie in a lonely moor? |
38145 | Does a man ever fully know how much pain an act may cause another? |
38145 | Everything is merely-- human-- all too human? |
38145 | For whom, moreover, does there exist, at present, any strong tie? |
38145 | Have enough of the unpleasant effects of this art been experienced to justify the person striving for culture in turning his regard away from it? |
38145 | He is in amaze and sits hushed: for where had he been? |
38145 | How can influence be exercised over this fearful unknown, how can this domain of freedom be brought under subjection? |
38145 | How comes this? |
38145 | If once he hardly dared to ask"why so apart? |
38145 | If this feeling had not been rendered agreeable to man-- why should he have improvised such an ideal and clung to it so long? |
38145 | Is everything, in the last resort, false? |
38145 | Is malicious joy devilish, as Schopenhauer says? |
38145 | Is one to believe that such things can still be believed? |
38145 | Is there such a thing as injuring from absolute badness, for example, in the case of cruelty? |
38145 | Is there, then, anything immoral in feeling pleasure in the pain of others? |
38145 | Mankind loves to put by the questions of its origin and beginning: must one not be almost inhuman in order to follow the opposite course? |
38145 | The question thus becomes: what sort of a notion will human society, under the influence of such a state of mind, form of itself? |
38145 | To move, to inspire, to inspirit at any cost-- is not this the freedom cry of an exhausted, over- ripe, over cultivated age? |
38145 | What binds strongest? |
38145 | What cords seem almost unbreakable? |
38145 | What!? |
38145 | Whence comes the conviction that one should not cause pain in others in order to feel pleasure oneself? |
38145 | Who dare reproach the Genoese Calvin for burning the physician Servetus at the stake? |
38145 | Who now feels any great impulse to establish himself and his posterity in a particular place? |
38145 | Who so well as he appreciates the fact that there comes balmy weather even in winter, who delights more in the sunshine athwart the wall? |
38145 | Who would have the right to feel sad if made aware of the goal to which those paths lead? |
38145 | Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? |
38145 | Would many feel disposed to continue such investigations? |
38145 | _ must_ we not be dupers also?" |
38145 | and God only an invention and a subtlety of the devil? |
38145 | and is good perhaps evil? |
38145 | is it so extraordinary a thing? |
38145 | or, if one_ must_, whether, then, death would not be preferable? |
38145 | over what? |
38145 | over whom? |
38145 | renouncing all I loved? |
38145 | renouncing respect itself? |
38145 | so alone? |
38145 | that he thus analyses his being and sacrifices one part of it to another part? |
38145 | what is the use? |
38145 | why does the first plausible hypothesis of the cause of a sensation gain credit in the dreaming state? |
38145 | why this coldness, this suspicion, this hate for one''s very virtues?" |
2300 | ''Why do the women wear these things?'' |
2300 | ), passes over sexual selection, and asks,"What explanation does the law of natural selection give of such specific varieties as these?" |
2300 | ); Erithacus(? |
2300 | ; but who can say at what age this occurs in our young children? |
2300 | A friend of his asked one of these men,"How is it that every one whom I meet is so fine looking, not only your men but your women?" |
2300 | Are partridges, as they are now coloured, better protected than if they had resembled quails? |
2300 | Are we not justified in believing that the female exerts a choice, and that she receives the addresses of the male who pleases her most? |
2300 | Are we to suppose that these black marks and the crimson colour of the eyes have been preserved or augmented through sexual selection in the males? |
2300 | At what age does the new- born infant possess the power of abstraction, or become self- conscious, and reflect on its own existence? |
2300 | But can this be so confidently said of sexual selection? |
2300 | But what are we to conclude with respect to certain birds in which, for instance, the eyes differ slightly in colour in the two sexes? |
2300 | But what are we to say about the rudimentary and variable vertebrae of the terminal portion of the tail, forming the os coccyx? |
2300 | Can it be believed that they would thus act to no purpose during their courtship? |
2300 | Do the races or species of men, whichever term may be applied, encroach on and replace one another, so that some finally become extinct? |
2300 | Does the male parade his charms with so much pomp and rivalry for no purpose? |
2300 | Foetus of an Orang(?). |
2300 | How are such races distributed over the world; and how, when crossed, do they react on each other in the first and succeeding generations? |
2300 | How is it that there are birds enough ready to replace immediately a lost mate of either sex? |
2300 | How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure? |
2300 | How then are we to account for male mammals possessing mammae? |
2300 | How, then, are we to account for the beautiful or even gorgeous colours of many animals in the lowest classes? |
2300 | It may well be asked, could such artistically shaded ornaments have been formed by means of sexual selection? |
2300 | It would be no advantage and some loss of power if each sex searched for the other; but why should the male almost always be the seeker? |
2300 | May we then infer that man became divested of hair from having aboriginally inhabited some tropical land? |
2300 | Must we attribute all these appendages of hair or skin to mere purposeless variability in the male? |
2300 | Now do not these actions clearly shew that she had in her mind a general idea or concept that some animal is to be discovered and hunted? |
2300 | Now, what is the difference between such actions, when performed by an uncultivated man, and by one of the higher animals? |
2300 | Now, what must we conclude with respect to such sexual differences as these? |
2300 | On the eastern coast, the negro boys when they saw Burton, cried out,"Look at the white man; does he not look like a white ape?" |
2300 | On the west coast of Africa the little black- weavers( Ploceus?) |
2300 | Or are we to suppose that the females of these several species especially require spurs for their defence? |
2300 | Or does she exert a choice, and prefer certain males? |
2300 | We are naturally led to enquire, where was the birthplace of man at that stage of descent when our progenitors diverged from the Catarrhine stock? |
2300 | What ancient nation, as the same author asks, can be named that was originally monogamous? |
2300 | What is this but energy and perseverance?) |
2300 | What kind of a person would she be without the pelele? |
2300 | What then are we to conclude from these facts and considerations? |
2300 | What, then, are we to conclude in regard to the many fishes, both sexes of which are splendidly coloured? |
2300 | When I say to my terrier, in an eager voice( and I have made the trial many times),"Hi, hi, where is it?" |
2300 | Who can doubt that the refusal to fight a duel through fear has caused many men an agony of shame? |
2300 | Why do not such spare birds immediately pair together? |
2300 | Why should a man feel that he ought to obey one instinctive desire rather than another? |
2300 | or why does he regret having stolen food from hunger? |
2300 | who after asking, does man originate in a different way from a dog, bird, frog or fish? |
743 | And wherefore not? |
743 | Is the sun the principal cause of the temperature of the earth? 743 What went ye out into the wilderness to see"said Jesus Christ:"a reed shaken with the wind?" |
743 | Who enquires of an enemy, whether it is by fraud or heroic enterprise that he has gained the day? |
743 | --Yet-- so capricious is fame-- a century has nearly elapsed, since Pope said, Who now reads Cowley? |
743 | A primary enquiry under this head is as to the duration of life: Is it long, or short? |
743 | Am not I therefore( the person engaged in reading the present Essay) the only being in existence, an entire universe to myself?" |
743 | And is this mysterious and concealed way of proceeding one of the forms through which we are to pass in the school of liberty? |
743 | And is this the proud attitude of liberty, to which we are so eager to aspire? |
743 | And shall we teach men to discharge this debt in the dark? |
743 | And to whom, said the king, wilt thou appeal? |
743 | And who does not feel that every thing depends upon the creed we embrace, and the discipline we exercise over our own souls? |
743 | And, if he did, where was the gold to be found, to satisfy his demand? |
743 | Are the virtues of the best men, the noblest philosophers, and the most disinterested patriots of antiquity, nothing? |
743 | But does any one, for himself or his posterity, expect to see this realised? |
743 | But does it record nothing else? |
743 | But how does the case really stand? |
743 | But how does the matter really stand? |
743 | But how shall I most effectually conceal the truth from him? |
743 | But is it always so? |
743 | But what I want to ascertain is, why the bare thought of doing so takes a momentary hold of the mind of the person addressed? |
743 | But what are all these, when compared with those that fill the whole expanse, the boundless field of aether? |
743 | But what has this to do with the world in which we live? |
743 | Could I?" |
743 | Did ever any one put out his penny to interest in this fashion for eighteen hundred years? |
743 | Does not all this strongly argue the solidity of the science to which they belong? |
743 | From what disposition in human nature is it that all this accommodation and concurrence proceed? |
743 | He considers, Will this man submit to my summons without resistance, or in what manner will he repel my trespass? |
743 | He might be ready to exclaim, with Hazael in the Scriptures,"Is thy servant more than man, that he should do this great thing?" |
743 | He says, What am I, that I should be the object of this? |
743 | How are we sure that they do then? |
743 | How comes it then that our nature labours under so bitter an aspersion? |
743 | How does this correspond with the goodness of God, which will suffer no mass of matter in his creation to remain unoccupied? |
743 | How is all this to be done by me? |
743 | How is this to be reconciled with the want of constancy which his organisation plainly indicates? |
743 | How many men are there, that have examined the evidences of their religious belief, and can give a sound"reason of the faith that is in them?" |
743 | How many men now exist on the face of the earth? |
743 | How then does the question stand with relation to mind? |
743 | I have here instanced in the case of the peripatetic: but of how many classes and occupations of human life may not the same thing be affirmed? |
743 | I say, that one of the thoughts that will occur to many of the persons who should be so invited, will be,"Shall I take him at his word?" |
743 | I should still say, Whatever I may do, whether it be right or wrong, I can not help it; wherefore then should I trouble the master- spirit within me? |
743 | In what manner then shall these deputies be elected? |
743 | Is it characteristic of a free state or a tyranny? |
743 | Is it not enough? |
743 | Is it not the first ejaculation of the miserable,"Oh, that I could fly from myself? |
743 | Is its cause something of absolute and substantive existence without me, or is it not? |
743 | Is not the Iliad a thing new, and that will for ever remain new? |
743 | Is this the picture we desire to see of genuine liberty, philanthropic, desirous of good to all, and overflowing with all generous emotions? |
743 | May I be allowed to tell it to my wife or my child? |
743 | May not lines which have reached to so amazing a length without meeting, be in reality parallel lines? |
743 | Must there not be in this subtle distribution much of what is arbitrary and sciolistic? |
743 | Of these hours how many belong to the province of intellect? |
743 | The experience we have had as to the truth of the smaller, does it authorise us to consider the larger as unquestionable? |
743 | The instant this question is proposed, I hear myself replied to from all quarters: What is there so well known as the brevity of human life? |
743 | The preceptor may occasionally perhaps prescribe to the pupil a severe task; and the young adventurer may say, Can I be expected to accomplish this? |
743 | Then what may I not have to fear? |
743 | Then what may be chance to say? |
743 | Then what would not omnipotence effect? |
743 | These new planets also we are told are fragments of a larger planet: how came this larger planet never to have been discovered? |
743 | This brings us back to the question:"Is there indeed nothing new under the sun?" |
743 | This certainly is a fearful judgment awarded upon our species: but is it true? |
743 | What can be expected from the buds of the most auspicious infancy, if encountered in their earliest stage with the rigorous blasts of a polar climate? |
743 | What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? |
743 | What can be more different than the gentry of the west end of this metropolis, and the money- making dwellers in the east? |
743 | What did this answer imply as to the political government of the country where it was given? |
743 | What has not man effected by the boldness of his conceptions and the adventurousness of his spirit? |
743 | What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? |
743 | What is it, that presents to every eye the image of liberty, and compels every heart to confess, This is the temple where she resides? |
743 | What is the true explanation of these determinations of the human will? |
743 | What looks of reproach may he cast upon me? |
743 | What more unlike than a soldier and a sailor? |
743 | What solution so natural, as that they are produced by beings like myself, the duplicates, with certain variations, of what I feel within me? |
743 | What then were the obstacles, that should in any degree counteract my smooth and rapid progress in the studies suggested to me? |
743 | When all these demands have been supplied, how many hours will be left for intellectual occupation? |
743 | When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? |
743 | Where is the man who can say that no unconscious bias has influenced him in the progress of his investigation? |
743 | Which of us is happy? |
743 | Who can behold the human eye, suddenly suffused with moisture, or gushing with tears unbid, and the quivering lip, without unspeakable emotion? |
743 | Who is it that says,"There is no love but among equals?" |
743 | Who shall pronounce that, under very different circumstances, his conclusions would not have been essentially other than they are? |
743 | Who shall set bounds to the everlasting variety of nature, as she has recorded her creations in the heart of man? |
743 | Why did the liberal- minded man perform his first act of benevolence? |
743 | Why do these men take so different courses? |
743 | Why is it then that disbelief or doubt should still subsist in a question so fully decided? |
743 | Yet how many motives are there, constraining him to abide in an affirmative conclusion? |
743 | Yet may not the mean temperature of the Georgium Sidus be nearly the same as that of the earth? |
743 | Yet what is human speech for the most part but mere imitation? |
743 | and whence comes it? |
743 | every thing is very good?" |
40257 | And the second is: How has it been perpetuated? |
40257 | And what has made this difference? |
40257 | Are natural causes competent to play the part of selection in perpetuating varieties? |
40257 | Are these truths ultimate and irresolvable facts, or are their complexities and perplexities the mere expressions of a higher law? |
40257 | But I imagine I hear the question, how is all this to be tested? |
40257 | But can we go no further than that? |
40257 | But has this been done? |
40257 | But how does this classification differ from that of the scientific Zoologist? |
40257 | But how is this remarkable propulsive machine made to perform its functions? |
40257 | But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomena of organic nature? |
40257 | But is it not possible to apply a test whereby a true species may be known from a mere variety? |
40257 | But is the like true of the physiological characteristics of animals? |
40257 | But is this really so? |
40257 | But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of nature? |
40257 | But the question now is:--Does selection take place in nature? |
40257 | But to how much has man really access? |
40257 | But what does this attempt to construct a universal history of the globe imply? |
40257 | But what more have we to guide us in nine- tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, and often very ill- based ones? |
40257 | But what proportion is there between the structural alteration and the functional result? |
40257 | But where does the grass, or the oat, or any other plant, obtain this nourishing food- producing material? |
40257 | But whither does all this tend? |
40257 | But why does a muscle contract at one time and not at another? |
40257 | Can either be shown to fill up or diminish, to any appreciable extent, the structural interval which exists between Man and the man- like Apes? |
40257 | Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock? |
40257 | Could not a sensible child confute, by obvious arguments, the shallow rhetoricians who would force this conclusion upon us? |
40257 | Did either of these original specimens, on which Von Wurmb''s descriptions are based, ever reach Europe? |
40257 | Do the physiological differences of varieties amount in degree to those observed between forms which naturalists call distinct species? |
40257 | Does Nature acknowledge in any deeper way this unity of plan we seem to trace? |
40257 | Has not his Paley told him that that seemingly useless organ, the spleen, is beautifully adjusted as so much packing between the other organs? |
40257 | How and when are we justified in making our next step-- a_ deduction_ from it? |
40257 | How could that operation of selection, which is his essential function, be carried out by mere natural agencies? |
40257 | How did Harvey determine the nature of the circulation, except by experiment? |
40257 | How did Sir Charles Bell determine the functions of the roots of the spinal nerves, save by experiment? |
40257 | How do we know the use of a nerve at all, except by experiment? |
40257 | How do you know that the laws of Nature are not suspended during the night? |
40257 | How do you know that the man who really made the marks took the spoons? |
40257 | How does the meaning of the scientific class- name of"Mammalia"differ from the unscientific of"Beasts"? |
40257 | How then has this notion of the inexactness of Biological science come about? |
40257 | How, then, is mud formed? |
40257 | If you find any record of changes taking place at_ b_, did they occur before any events which took place while_ a_ was being deposited? |
40257 | In the first place, do these supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature? |
40257 | In the first place, what is a species? |
40257 | Is he something apart? |
40257 | Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter? |
40257 | Is it not probable that teachers, in pursuing such studies, will be led astray from the acquirement of more important but less attractive knowledge? |
40257 | Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection? |
40257 | Is it then the_ results_ of Biological science which are"inexact"? |
40257 | Is mother- love vile because a hen shows it, or fidelity base because dogs possess it? |
40257 | Is there among the plants the same primitive form of organization, and is that identical with that of the animal kingdom? |
40257 | Is there any test of a physiological species? |
40257 | Is there no criterion of species? |
40257 | Is this sound reasoning? |
40257 | It is the question why should training masters be encouraged to acquire a knowledge of this, or any other branch, of physical science? |
40257 | No doubt it is a pretty and ingenious way of looking at the structure of any animal, but is it anything more? |
40257 | Now, how many of those are absolutely extinct? |
40257 | Now, the next problem that lies before us-- and it is an extremely important one-- is this: Does this selective breeding occur in nature? |
40257 | Now, what is the effect of this oscillation? |
40257 | Now, what is the result of all this? |
40257 | Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them? |
40257 | Or suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we? |
40257 | Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences? |
40257 | So what is the use of what you have done?" |
40257 | That is to say, how many of these orders of animals have lived at a former period of the world''s history, but have at present no representatives? |
40257 | The first is: How has organic or living matter commenced its existence? |
40257 | The first question of course is, Do they thus return to the primitive stock? |
40257 | The great new question would be"How does all this take place?" |
40257 | Was the oldest_ Homo sapiens_ pliocene or miocene, or yet more ancient? |
40257 | What are those inductions and deductions, and how have you got at this hypothesis? |
40257 | What books shall I read? |
40257 | What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? |
40257 | What is Mr. Darwin''s hypothesis? |
40257 | What is he doing? |
40257 | What is it originates, directs and controls, the motive power? |
40257 | What is it that constitutes and makes man what he is? |
40257 | What is the cause of this wonderful difference between the dead particle and the living particle of matter appearing in other respects identical? |
40257 | What is the purpose of primary intellectual education? |
40257 | What is the use, it is said, of attempting to make physical science a branch of primary education? |
40257 | What is this very speech that we are talking about? |
40257 | What meaning has this fact upon any other hypothesis or supposition than one of successive modification? |
40257 | What will be the result, then? |
40257 | What will come of a variation when you breed from it, when Atavism comes, if I may say so, to intersect variation? |
40257 | What, then, takes place? |
40257 | When I examine it, what appears to be the most striking character it presents? |
40257 | Where in nature was the analogue of the breeder to be found? |
40257 | Where, then, must we look for primæval Man? |
40257 | Why does one whole group of muscles contract when the lobster wishes to extend his tail, and another group, when he desires to bend it? |
40257 | Why, there is not a function of a single organ in the body which has not been determined wholly and solely by experiment? |
40257 | Your friend says to you,"But how do you know that?" |
40257 | is there anything like the operation of man in exercising selective breeding, taking place in nature? |
40257 | or may I not rather ask is it possible for you to discharge your functions properly, without these aids? |
40257 | or what is really the state of the case? |
40257 | said his opponents,"but what do you know you may be doing when you heat the air over the water in this way? |
40257 | that difference to which we give the name of Life? |
40257 | that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way? |
40257 | that there is such a thing as natural selection? |
40257 | what does the explanation explain? |
40257 | what if species should offer residual phenomena here and there, not explicable by natural selection? |
40257 | what is the range and position of Physiological Science as a branch of knowledge, and what is its value as a means of mental discipline? |
53261 | 101_ Paradox_ What is paradox? |
53261 | 10_ The Sex Novel_ How did the vogue of the sex novel arise? |
53261 | 129_ A New Valuation_ But why do ideals of Man decay-- why_ did_ the ideal of Man decay? |
53261 | 146_ A Criterion_ To find out whether a thing is decadent or no, let us henceforth put this question, Does it spring from creative Love? |
53261 | 147_ Love at the Renaissance_ How may a great creative age like the Renaissance be interpreted on the hypothesis of Love? |
53261 | 181_ Love and the Fall_ Has the fable of the Fall still another interpretation for us? |
53261 | 18_ The Modern Reader_ What is it that the modern reader demands from those who write for him? |
53261 | 202_ The Hidden Faculty_ When we speak hopefully of the discovery of still undiscovered faculties in Man, to what do we look forward? |
53261 | 205_ Nietzsche_ What was Nietzsche, that subtlest of modern riddles? |
53261 | 30_ Decadence Again_ How is the dissolution of the tradition of artistic discipline to be explained? |
53261 | 41_ Equality_ Is equality, in truth, a generous dogma? |
53261 | 47_ Beyond Original Sin_ How far is Man still from his goal? |
53261 | 62_ The Good Conscience_ What a revolution for mankind it would be to get back"the good conscience"? |
53261 | 66_ The"Restoration"of Christianity_ Will Christianity ever be established again? |
53261 | 94_ Domination of the Present_ To be modern in the accepted, intellectually fashionable sense: what is that? |
53261 | 9_ Wanted: A History of Hurry_ Is there a critic who wishes to be at once edifying and entertaining? |
53261 | A coterie of shop- keepers? |
53261 | A friend of his wondered, Is he going downhill because he is tired? |
53261 | A nightmare? |
53261 | A vision? |
53261 | And are decadents those who, if they had submitted to an artistic discipline of sincerity, would never have written at all? |
53261 | And are not the believers in the future, then, the creators of the future, and the true priests of progress? |
53261 | And has hurry now become finally triumphant so that our critics and even our artists and savants are nothing more than journalists? |
53261 | And himself, a Romantic? |
53261 | And his Redeemer would be, therefore-- whom? |
53261 | And his love of Love is then something pathetic, founded on"unselfishness"? |
53261 | And how can one who has not idealized be an artist? |
53261 | And how much Art, therefore, has lost? |
53261 | And how, then, is Man to be redeemed? |
53261 | And is"objectivity"the antidote? |
53261 | And morality was then the original sin? |
53261 | And not Original Sin, but Original Innocence is the true reading of the fable? |
53261 | And on the heels of his remedy does there tread the old disease over again? |
53261 | And should we not, therefore, feel grateful to them? |
53261 | And so on eternally? |
53261 | And stagnant values? |
53261 | And that misunderstanding is perhaps attributable to a lack of leisure? |
53261 | And that to modern hurry? |
53261 | And that to the industrial system? |
53261 | And that you are Realists-- does it not prove that you have not Love? |
53261 | And therefore in something antagonistic to Love? |
53261 | And through_ it_ Man lost his innocence? |
53261 | And what, indeed, is the problem? |
53261 | And what, then, is equality but the infinitely consoling consciousness of tainted creatures that every one on this earth is tainted? |
53261 | And would not that defeat the purpose? |
53261 | And, after all, does Man desire Happiness? |
53261 | And, therefore, one should praise humility, and practise it? |
53261 | And, therefore, whether religion is subjective, or objective? |
53261 | Are modern artists as bourgeois as this? |
53261 | Are not all sincere ideals involuntary auguries? |
53261 | Are these the bad thoughts of God? |
53261 | Are you not simply superfluous-- and vilely smelling at that? |
53261 | As a sort of Epicureanism, for instance? |
53261 | As for the current conception, is conflict an ingredient in it, or rest? |
53261 | But a man the muscles of whose body and mind are weak can not do_ anything;_ how can he be free? |
53261 | But creation and pain go hand in hand; for what is creation? |
53261 | But did Dostoieffsky do well to lay bare that world previously so reverently hidden, and to bring the reader behind the scenes of tragedy? |
53261 | But have things a meaning in themselves? |
53261 | But have you not sometimes tried to do that? |
53261 | But how renounce it? |
53261 | But if the devil is corruption, can not the devil be abolished? |
53261 | But is it possible by preaching to increase Love? |
53261 | But is not a thing incomplete without its interpretation? |
53261 | But is the question, indeed, worth the asking? |
53261 | But is there any other which grants modernity more than the status of an accident of time and fashion? |
53261 | But is this so? |
53261 | But the eternal question always returns again, Why does literature exist? |
53261 | But this state being created, the problem arose, How did Man fall from it? |
53261 | But what can one do? |
53261 | But what is Happiness? |
53261 | But, allowing for these, may there not be_ something_ due to the fact that people are no longer interested, as they used to be, in the future? |
53261 | But, as well, is not pride at times laughable and absurd? |
53261 | But, without the bait of the strange and the new to lure it on, must not humanity halt on its way? |
53261 | By a standard outside of literature, by their consonance with that which is the_ raison d''être_ of literature? |
53261 | Can a society in which rights are affixed to functions serve for that? |
53261 | Can it be willed into power? |
53261 | Can not Man renounce a metaphor? |
53261 | Conceived in darkness, born for destruction? |
53261 | Did Nietzsche, perhaps, create his Superman, and give him his hardness and lightness for no other purpose than to carry out that task? |
53261 | Did not Christ arise_ because_ He was foretold? |
53261 | Did not the old prophecies"come true"_ because_ they were prophesied? |
53261 | Do they mean a sort of synthesis or hotchpotch of the virtues in which they believe? |
53261 | Does X believe in a Christian and Y in a Nietzschean perfection? |
53261 | Does he desire Life to continue so that controversy might continue? |
53261 | Does it express, as every one assumes, the solidarity of men in their higher attributes? |
53261 | Does such a tradition of modernity exist? |
53261 | Even if it is Love that drives us on? |
53261 | For does not belief in absolute values necessarily imply belief in a Utopia? |
53261 | For how can mystery be retained when the very realm of mystery, the subconscious, is surveyed and mapped? |
53261 | For how can one who has not loved idealize? |
53261 | For how without them could she suffer to create, and endure the pain of Becoming? |
53261 | For if one become the servant and proclaim himself the least of all, how can he still fall? |
53261 | For what if goods be to society what happiness is said to be to men-- things to be attained only by striving for something else? |
53261 | For what was the confession underlying it? |
53261 | From fear of a decision? |
53261 | From what does it arise? |
53261 | From whence do they come? |
53261 | H. G. Wells_ How much has Mr. Wells''s scientific training had to do with his conception of Love? |
53261 | Had he lived in that pre- Christian world, would he have believed in the God in whom he now believes? |
53261 | Has he also possessed this truth? |
53261 | Has he in despair grown"artistic"simply because he is not an artist? |
53261 | Has literature decayed as hurry has intensified? |
53261 | Have standards of balance, repose and leisured grace gradually shrunk since, say, the Industrial Revolution? |
53261 | Have we here got to the foundation, or shall we find that underlying the Will to Power there is something more fundamental still? |
53261 | He himself lacks Love:--Can it be that he praises it for the same reason for which the Christian praises what he is not but would fain be? |
53261 | His heart then exults within him; but, why? |
53261 | How did Christianity find relief from this fundamental pessimism? |
53261 | How did this convention arise? |
53261 | How does it look, sound, move?" |
53261 | How else, if he had not deceived Man, could he have peopled the heavens with Man''s deities? |
53261 | How is it possible for an interesting man to have an uninteresting philosophy? |
53261 | How much of it, for instance, is simple prudence? |
53261 | How was Man to avoid now the almost inevitable bourne of Nihilism? |
53261 | How was the earth to recapture its love again, and drink back into itself its rapture and creativeness? |
53261 | How would the fable arise? |
53261 | How, else, could He have created the Universe? |
53261 | How, then, are they to be valued? |
53261 | III WHAT IS MODERN? |
53261 | If the individual can not by taking thought capture Happiness, is it conceivable that a community can, or the human race, in toto? |
53261 | If you would create an ideal Art, must you not, then, learn to love? |
53261 | In a society which has not surpassed the phase of slavery does every addition to man''s power over nature simply intensify the slavery? |
53261 | In bringing about Happiness? |
53261 | In plain terms, how do we expect this faculty to be of use to us? |
53261 | In them a far greater problem than any literary problem faces us, the problem, Why does literature exist? |
53261 | In what consists the passion of the moral fanatic? |
53261 | Into what hells?" |
53261 | Is Decadence the most subtle disguise of impotence? |
53261 | Is Happiness, then, the end of morality? |
53261 | Is Man, then, the mediocre animal par excellence? |
53261 | Is Original Sin, then, a theological dogma or a political device? |
53261 | Is decadence nothing more than the symptom of a self- conscious age? |
53261 | Is it an ideal of Life, or a thing impossible, self- contradictory, static, an eternal stick with which to chastise existence? |
53261 | Is it because Love is indifferent to Happiness that Happiness flutters around it, and caresses it with its wings? |
53261 | Is it because he is incapable of becoming anything else? |
53261 | Is it because the lovers have by a divine chance found their true path, have become a pulse in the very heart of Life? |
53261 | Is it because there is within the exceptional man greater compass, and, therefore, greater danger? |
53261 | Is it in order that people might still converse wittily, and the epigram might not die? |
53261 | Is it not Man that forever interprets and interprets? |
53261 | Is it not the future rather than the prophecy which"comes true"? |
53261 | Is it possible to know Life? |
53261 | Is it that the sentiment of the eternal was already beginning to weaken in Goethe and Ibsen? |
53261 | Is it, indeed, power that they desire in their striving, power for the sake of power? |
53261 | Is not its interpretation a part of it? |
53261 | Is not soothsaying implicit in every deliberate act? |
53261 | Is not this, indeed, its chief_ utility,_ that it saves men from the dangers which accompany pride? |
53261 | Is salvation, like sin, common to all men? |
53261 | Is the Will to suffering incarnate in it, or the will to alleviate suffering? |
53261 | Is the problem a moral one, and shall we say that a conquest of nature which is not preceded by a conquest of human nature is bound to be bad? |
53261 | Is there a"modern spirit"not dependent upon time and place, and in all ages modern? |
53261 | Is this simply the last paradox of a master of paradox? |
53261 | Is this what happened at the Renaissance? |
53261 | It is not sufficient that movements should be new-- if they are ever new; the question is, To what end are they? |
53261 | Its_ raison d''être_ is the Garden of Eden, not the Fall? |
53261 | Love, indeed, is known to him in all but its illusions; but who knows Love that knows not Love''s illusions? |
53261 | Must not things be_ foreseen_ before they can be accomplished? |
53261 | Neither of them copies existence in its external details: wherein do they differ? |
53261 | Or an effect of Love? |
53261 | Or does their strength not go just so far? |
53261 | Or from love of freedom? |
53261 | Or is he tired because he is going downhill? |
53261 | Or is it humility to boast of one''s high ancestry, and if the ancestry does not exist, to invent it? |
53261 | Or is it still, as it has always been, a crime to substitute one metaphor for another? |
53261 | Or is the problem intellectual? |
53261 | Or is your soul afraid to go as far as your will? |
53261 | Or not praise it and practise it? |
53261 | Or praise it and not practise it? |
53261 | Or to take another guess, granted we read Original Sin in the Fall, must we not read there, also, the way to get rid of it? |
53261 | Or will they look back upon Christianity as a creed too indulgent and not noble enough? |
53261 | Progress conceived as a discovery of the unknown instead of as a pursuit of Perfection-- might not that take us a long way? |
53261 | Shall it yet be found that the mainspring of the Renaissance was a newly discovered love of Life and, therefore, of Man? |
53261 | Should we then oppose the addition of one more divine power to the imprisoned? |
53261 | Should we who nurse a mission deplore the spirit in which these disinterested observers enter into their task? |
53261 | The Greeks would have demanded of realism, Why do you exist? |
53261 | The Superman is a goal, but what is the Superman''s goal? |
53261 | The history of humanity, that is, as distinct from the history of communities? |
53261 | The maddest of dreams? |
53261 | The morality might be judged by the criterion, Does it aid us in our quest? |
53261 | The profoundest of intuitions? |
53261 | The"bull"raised to a form of literary art? |
53261 | This notion may appear to us absurd, or merely ingenious, but will it appear so to future generations? |
53261 | This was the task of Nietzsche: in how far he succeeded how can we yet say? |
53261 | Through what perils? |
53261 | To live sparely and conserve strength? |
53261 | To make Life beautiful, then, would be to make it tragic? |
53261 | To make discipline more rigid? |
53261 | To observe vigilantly the signs of today-- and not only of today? |
53261 | To preserve and fortify the tradition of culture? |
53261 | To render more accessible the sources from which creative literature draws its life, so that the_ next_ generation may be better placed? |
53261 | To what cause is it to be traced? |
53261 | To what is due the decay of the art of soothsaying? |
53261 | To what is due this conspicuous absence of nobility in modern writers? |
53261 | To what was the change of attitude due? |
53261 | True, this hatred may not be of individuals but of things; but does that make it any more harmless? |
53261 | WHAT IS MODERN? |
53261 | Was it Love, who wished to shape a weapon for itself, the better to fashion things? |
53261 | Was it not fitting that he should aim his main indictment of Life against it, seeing that it is the trick whereby the blunder of Life is perpetuated? |
53261 | Was it not necessarily so? |
53261 | Was not this the necessary corollary of his æsthetic evaluation of Life? |
53261 | Was that pride the necessary condition of that productiveness? |
53261 | Was the Fall of Man the fall from Love? |
53261 | Was this the explanation of Nietzsche''s downfall? |
53261 | We ask, rather, Is our Love creative or barren? |
53261 | Well, are we to assent, then, to the old philosophic prejudice against style and refuse to believe any philosopher who does not write badly? |
53261 | Well, does not the moral become clearer and clearer? |
53261 | Well, how is it possible, if it_ is_ possible, to regain"the good conscience"? |
53261 | Well, in which of these forms, Tragedy or Comedy, may our hopes and visions of the Future best be expressed? |
53261 | Well, what does that prove, except that comedy as well as tragedy has been occasioned by it? |
53261 | Well, what is the remedy for this? |
53261 | Well, why not? |
53261 | Were they overburdened by their own age? |
53261 | What are we to think, then? |
53261 | What can be his reason for doing so? |
53261 | What course is left? |
53261 | What has been the history of humanity during the last two thousand years? |
53261 | What if the conflict between spirit and"life"is and must forever be an implacable and destructive one? |
53261 | What if, like the vampire, it_ can_ live only by drinking blood? |
53261 | What is it that makes the average man more sane and happy than the modern man? |
53261 | What is its meaning? |
53261 | What is the meaning of literature? |
53261 | What noble end is served by the reproduction of ordinary existence? |
53261 | What quality or combination of qualities is it which makes a writer a stylist? |
53261 | What satisfaction does it bring to those, by no means few in number, its"followers"? |
53261 | What was its meaning to the rulers of Israel? |
53261 | What, then, are the tasks of a writer in an unproductive age? |
53261 | What, then, does modern sensualism mean? |
53261 | When it has been written, and the new discipline has been hailed and submitted to by the artists, who can say if greatness may not again be possible? |
53261 | Where may not this resolution lead you? |
53261 | Where would philosophical opponents of Bolshevism be without Nietzsche? |
53261 | Whether God is within us, or outside us? |
53261 | Whither do they go? |
53261 | Who created it? |
53261 | Who would devise arguments for them, eloquence for them, phrases for them? |
53261 | Who, then, but them should extol him? |
53261 | Why should he wish Life to persist if he does not love Life? |
53261 | Will timidity, conformity, mediocrity, judicious blindness, unwillingness to offend, be synonymous, to them also, with morality? |
53261 | Would he, perchance, have said that to John the Baptist, the great modern of his time? |
53261 | Would the poets, the thinkers and the discoverers have attempted what they did attempt, had they been humble men? |
53261 | Would you deprive us of all the charming, serious, whimsical, and divinely frivolous works which are human- all- too- human? |
53261 | Would you erase from the book of literature all that is not idealization and myth, you neo- moderns? |
53261 | Yet what could harm it? |
53261 | Yet, for our better amusement, will not some one write his one and only novel, giving the true history of the novelist? |
53261 | Yet, in doing so, did they not rob æstheticism of its seductiveness? |
53261 | Yet, what ground had he to conclude that because the sensual intoxicates Man, therefore Man is more sensual than spiritual? |
53261 | You have been unsuccessful in trivial things? |
53261 | _ Can_ man act at all without believing in the future in some fashion? |
53261 | _ Why_ do all living things strive for power? |
53261 | are propaganda, reform, and even revolution, perchance, with many of them simply their escape from their problem? |
53261 | has Mr. Chesterton, then, postponed the solution of the problem? |
53261 | is Nietzsche, then, the great moralist, and are the Christians the great immoralists? |
5173 | Do the inanimate preach the Doctrine? |
5173 | How art thou going to encounter it? |
5173 | How can you turn Self into the phenomenal universe? |
5173 | How do you display your supernatural powers? |
5173 | How do you, sir,questioned the monk,"teach about that?" |
5173 | I have been reciting the sacred Canon, why do you not see? 5173 Is there not anything good in the worshipping of the Buddha?" |
5173 | Let go of that, I say,the Muni commanded again; but the Brahmin, having nothing to let go of, asked:"What shall I let go of, Reverend Sir? |
5173 | Obak said:''How dares this lunatic come into my presence and play with a tiger''s whiskers?'' 5173 Then who is that confronts us?" |
5173 | What doctrine do the masters of the South teach? |
5173 | What has brought you here? |
5173 | What have I to do when death takes the place of life? |
5173 | What is the best way of living for us monks? |
5173 | What is the spiritual body of Buddha who is immortal and divine? |
5173 | What is, reverend sir,asked a man of Chao Cheu( Jo- shu),"the holy temple( of Buddha)?" |
5173 | What is, sir,asked a monk to Yen Kwan( Yen- kan),"the original body of Buddha Vairocana? |
5173 | Who are you,demanded the Fifth Patriarch,"and whence have you come?" |
5173 | Who can hear them? |
5173 | Who is the master of the temple? |
5173 | Why, then, do I not hear them? |
5173 | [ FN#262] Who could cheer him up who abandons himself to self- created misery? 5173 [ FN#37]"I know, your reverence,"said the man,"that you belong to Samgha; but what are Buddha and Dharma?" |
5173 | ''Are these sages alive?'' |
5173 | ''How should you, a wheelwright, have anything to say about the book which I am reading? |
5173 | ''O monk,''demanded the man, as Boku- den was clad like a Zen monk,''what school of swordsmanship do you belong to?'' |
5173 | ''There are nettles everywhere, but are not smooth, green grasses more common still?'' |
5173 | ''What is life and death?'' |
5173 | ''What is the real nature of mind?'' |
5173 | ''What is the spirit of Bodhidharma?'' |
5173 | ''Where is my visitor, where my dear monk?'' |
5173 | ''Why not,''he might have thought within himself,''why all this is futile? |
5173 | ''Why, you might go to the master and ask him what is the essence of Buddhism?'' |
5173 | ''Why,''said the teacher,''art thou so late?'' |
5173 | A man asked Chang Sha( Cho- sha):"How can you turn the phenomenal universe into Self?" |
5173 | A man asked Poh Chang( Hyaku- jo):"How shall I learn the Law?" |
5173 | A monk, Hwui Chao( E- cha) by name, asked Pao Yen( Ho- gen):"What is Buddha?" |
5173 | Again, if there be nothing real in the universe, what is it that causes unreal objects to appear? |
5173 | Again, if there be nothing real in the universe, what is it that causes unreal objects to appear? |
5173 | Are the stars too distant? |
5173 | Are there not holy men, Holy Truths, Holy Paths stated in the scriptures? |
5173 | Are there not many who are rich without any virtues, while some are poor in spite of their virtues? |
5173 | Are there not the humane, who die young, while the inhuman enjoy long lives? |
5173 | Are there not the unjust who are fortunate, while the just are unfortunate? |
5173 | Are we doomed to be victims for the jaws of the environment? |
5173 | Are we not endowed with inner force to fight successfully against obstacles and difficulties, and to wrest trophies of glory from hardships? |
5173 | Are we to be slaves to the vicissitudes of fortune? |
5173 | But are your beliefs, we should ask, based on historical fact? |
5173 | But as soon as they withdraw into themselves and ask themselves,''Am I now happy?'' |
5173 | But is there inner life expressed, or possible to be expressed, in any other form save physical organism? |
5173 | By what authority does he declare all this meritless? |
5173 | Can a superior man be without the feeling of shame to such an extent as this?'' |
5173 | Can you assert that those traditions which deify Mohammed and Shakya are the statements of bare facts? |
5173 | Can you cause things to fall off the earth against the law of gravitation? |
5173 | Can you not recognize something undisturbed and peaceful among disturbance and trouble? |
5173 | Can you realize that death, which you have yet no immediate experience of, is the greatest of evil? |
5173 | Can you recognize something awe- inspiring in the rise and fall of nations? |
5173 | Can you say that such traditional and self- contradictory records as the four gospels are history in the strict sense of the term? |
5173 | Can you thus prove that you- in- yourself exist beyond or behind you? |
5173 | Confucius replied:''What words are these? |
5173 | Could there be any meat that is not fresh in my shop?'' |
5173 | Do n''t you see?" |
5173 | Do they denote or connote anything? |
5173 | Do you bear the trumpet call? |
5173 | Do you feel the earth tremble? |
5173 | Do you not need to mitigate the struggle for existence more sanguine than the war of weapons? |
5173 | Do you not shed tears over those hunger- bitten children who cower in the dark lanes of a great city? |
5173 | Do you not sympathize with poverty- stricken millions living side by side with millionaires saturated with wealth? |
5173 | Do you not want to do away with the so- called armoured peace among nations? |
5173 | Do you not wish to put down the stupendous oppressor-- Might- is- right? |
5173 | Does He not give new forms to His design? |
5173 | Does He not show us new materials for His building? |
5173 | Does He not surprise us with novelties, extraordinaries, and mysteries? |
5173 | Does not even a stone tell the mystery of Life? |
5173 | Does this not amount to your stealing the annual salary from your lord?" |
5173 | Does, then, Zen use no scripture? |
5173 | For what purpose is your question? |
5173 | For whose sake should he take life,[FN#350] or commit theft, or give alms, or keep precepts? |
5173 | For whose sake, then, should he be lustful or angry? |
5173 | Has it a form? |
5173 | Has not art found that she is beautiful? |
5173 | Has not each of us a light within him, whatever degrees of lustre there may be? |
5173 | Has not even grass some meaning? |
5173 | Has not philosophy announced that she is spiritual? |
5173 | Has not religion proclaimed that she is good? |
5173 | Has not science proved that she is truthful? |
5173 | Has there been any paramour who disgraced himself that lie might help his neighbours? |
5173 | Has there been any traitor who performed the ignoble conduct to promote the welfare of his own country or society at large? |
5173 | Has there been anyone who committed theft that he might further the interests of his villagers? |
5173 | Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been completely and exhaustively revealed in our Enlightened Consciousness? |
5173 | Have we not hundreds of thousands of life- long slaves to gold among us? |
5173 | Have we not myriads of lifelong slaves to vanity among us? |
5173 | Have we not thousands of life- long slaves to spirits among us? |
5173 | Have we not, nevertheless, hundreds of life- long slaves to cigars among us? |
5173 | He replied:''What profession is there which has not its principles? |
5173 | How can he be so? |
5173 | How can it, by coming quickly into the eyes and ears, distinguish the pleasing from the disgusting in external objects? |
5173 | How can such a person be the master of things? |
5173 | How can the divine law of causality be so unreasonable? |
5173 | How can the spirits of the past always live in a crowd? |
5173 | How can there be reward for the good( as it is taught in your sacred books),[FN#315] that Heaven blesses the good and shows grace to the humble? |
5173 | How can this one put the others in motion, or communicate with them, in order to co- operate in producing Karma? |
5173 | How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put at the mercy of petty troubles, or intended to be crushed by obstacles? |
5173 | How can you be saved when you are at the verge of death? |
5173 | How can you single out angels from among devils? |
5173 | How could I understand all human affairs, ancient and modern, in the world? |
5173 | How could he be reluctant to give his halo?" |
5173 | How could he, however, succeed in his task unless he has two or three lives, as some animals are believed to have? |
5173 | How could it be called a noble( path)? |
5173 | How could it be possible to make the unmoral being moral or immoral? |
5173 | How could man, the most spiritual of the Three Powers[FN#284] exist without an origin? |
5173 | How could one extirpate man''s bad nature implanted within him at his origin? |
5173 | How could such a dull fellow as I grasp its spirit?" |
5173 | How could we save the dying by persuading them that death is a bare privation of life? |
5173 | How could you establish the authority of morality? |
5173 | How could you know Him to be a Divine man different from other criminals who were crucified with Him? |
5173 | How could you say that its relation to a knower is the only and fundamental relation for the existence of the tree? |
5173 | How could you think anything purely spiritual and formless existing without blending together with other things? |
5173 | How did he come to consider that he ought to be good and ought not to be bad? |
5173 | How do kings differ from beggars in the eye of Transience? |
5173 | How do you know the causes of one are more numerous than the causes of the other? |
5173 | How does it differ from soul? |
5173 | How was it possible for man to do good before these sages''appearance on earth? |
5173 | How, then, can the heart within freely pass to the organs of sense without? |
5173 | How, then, did philosophers come to consider reality to be unknowable and hidden behind or beyond appearances? |
5173 | How, then, do you distinguish the real cause of pain from that of pleasure? |
5173 | How, then, does Alaya give rise to them through transformation? |
5173 | How, then, is life sustained there and kept up in continuous birth after birth? |
5173 | Hwui Chung( Ye- chu), a famous disciple of the Sixth Patriarch in China, to quote an example, one day asked a monk:"Where did you come from?" |
5173 | If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma( I ask), what is the mind? |
5173 | If it be the will of Heaven to bless so limited a number of persons at all, and to curse so many, why is Heaven so partial? |
5173 | If man be double- natured, how did he come to set good over evil? |
5173 | If mind as well as external objects be unreal, who is it that knows they are so? |
5173 | If morality be merely subjective, and there be no objective standard, how can you distinguish evil from good? |
5173 | If the dream is not the same as the things dreamed, in what other form does it appear to you? |
5173 | If the external objects which are transformed are unreal, how can the Vijnyana, the transformer, be real? |
5173 | If there be no distinction between the pleasing and the disgusting, why does it accept the one or reject the other? |
5173 | If there be no individual soul either in mind or body, where does personality lie? |
5173 | If there be no life in earth, how could life come out of it? |
5173 | If there be no life similar to ours in animals, how could we sustain our life by subsisting on them? |
5173 | If there be no life, the same as the animal''s life in the vegetables, how could animals sustain their lives feeding on vegetables? |
5173 | If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, bow can there be the various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it? |
5173 | If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, how can there be various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it? |
5173 | If there be no water of unchanging fluidity, how can there be the unreal and temporary forms of waves? |
5173 | If there be no water of unchanging fluidity,[FN#373] how can there be the unreal and temporary forms of waves? |
5173 | If there be no way of escape, why do you trouble yourself about it? |
5173 | If this assertion be true, is it not a useless task to educate man with the purpose of making him better and nobler? |
5173 | If vices be congenial and true to man''s nature, but virtues be alien and untrue to him, why are virtues honoured by him? |
5173 | If vices be genuine and virtue a deception, as you think, why do you call the inventors of that deceiving art sages? |
5173 | If you contend that good is man''s primary nature and evil the secondary one, why is be so often overpowered by the secondary nature? |
5173 | If you could conquer the enemy without fighting, what then is your sword for?'' |
5173 | If, again, man''s nature is essentially bad, as Siun Tsz holds, how can he cultivate virtue? |
5173 | In short, why are so many destined to be unlucky and so few to be lucky? |
5173 | In such a world as this, what is the use of the enjoyment of pleasures, if he who has fed on them is to return to this world again and again? |
5173 | Is he himself not one of the holy men?'' |
5173 | Is it bright? |
5173 | Is it conscious? |
5173 | Is it empty? |
5173 | Is it intelligent? |
5173 | Is it non- intelligent? |
5173 | Is it not a fact that the more virtuous one grows the more sinful he feels himself? |
5173 | Is it not best for it to do so? |
5173 | Is it not just one moment from the nuptial song to the funeral- dirge? |
5173 | Is it not just one step from rosy childhood to snowy age? |
5173 | Is it not mere tautology? |
5173 | Is the doomsday coming instead? |
5173 | Is there any example of an individual object that escaped the government of that law in the whole history of the world? |
5173 | Is there any instance of an individual who escaped it in the whole history of mankind? |
5173 | Is there any merit, Reverend Sir, in our conduct?" |
5173 | Is this not contrary to fact? |
5173 | Laying aside his hammer and chisel, Phien went up the steps and said:''I venture to ask your Grace what words you are reading?'' |
5173 | Let us ask you: Are you satisfied with the present state of things? |
5173 | Li Ngao( Ri- ko) one day asked Yoh Shan( Yaku- san):"What is the way to truth?" |
5173 | Might I ask you, sir, to pacify my mind?" |
5173 | Nothing exists from the first What can be dimmed by dust and dirt?" |
5173 | Now ask yourself what is you- in- yourself? |
5173 | Now if I, being born among men, know not whence I came( into this life), how could I know whither I am going in the after- life? |
5173 | Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with Buddha- nature, why have they not come naturally to be Enlightened? |
5173 | Now, then, what is the use of our life, if it stand still? |
5173 | Now, then, who can point out any sinless person in the present world? |
5173 | Of what use( then) are the teachings of Lao Tsz and Chwang Tsz? |
5173 | One day she instructed a young girl to embrace and ask him:"How do you feel now?" |
5173 | Or did you do so, in the service of a perishing state, by the punishment of an axe? |
5173 | Or was it that you had completed your term of life?'' |
5173 | Or was it through your evil conduct, reflecting disgrace on your parents and on your wife and children? |
5173 | Or was it through your hard endurances of cold and hunger? |
5173 | Ordinary people know not even the phenomena actually occurring before them; how could they understand the unseen? |
5173 | Pao Chi( Ho- shi), a Buddhist tutor to the Emperor, asked the perplexed monarch:"Does your Lordship understand him?" |
5173 | Perhaps he might have thought:''Why is nothing holy? |
5173 | Providence, salvation, and divine grace-- what are they? |
5173 | Say, one and all, how do you understand the Law?" |
5173 | Shall we perish in the darkness of scepticism, shutting our eyes to the light of Tathagata? |
5173 | Shall we say, then, that the shape of the nail gave the shape of the coat, or in any way corresponds to it? |
5173 | Shall we starve ourselves refusing to accept the rich bounty which the Blessed Life offers to us? |
5173 | Shall we suffer from innumerable pains in the self- created hell where remorse, jealousy, and hatred feed the fire of anger? |
5173 | So why do they not see and hear and thus produce Karma? |
5173 | Such is the clearness of still water, and how much greater is that of the human spirit? |
5173 | Tapping it with his horse- switch, he asked it saying:''Did you, sir, in your greed of life, fail in the lessons of reason and come to this? |
5173 | The elder said:''Have you ever approached the master and asked his instruction in Buddhism?'' |
5173 | Then Tung Shan went round the chair, taking the officer with him, and making a bow again to the officer, asked:"Do you see what I mean?" |
5173 | Then an attendant of his asked"What is the matter?" |
5173 | Then the monk bowed politely to the teacher, who questioned:"How did you understand me?" |
5173 | Then, turning to another monk, inquired:"How did you understand me?" |
5173 | Thus thinking, he inquired:"What is the holy truth, or the first principle?" |
5173 | To the question,"What and who is Buddha?" |
5173 | Tung Shan( To- Zan) was on one occasion attending on his teacher Yun Yen( Un- gan), who asked:"What are your supernatural powers?" |
5173 | Was it not typical of a so- called great man of the world? |
5173 | Was not Jesus also a criminal? |
5173 | Was not Socrates a criminal? |
5173 | Was the golden age of man, then, over in the remote past? |
5173 | We have to ask, in what respects does the interrelation between mind and body resemble the relation between a coat and a nail? |
5173 | Were we born eyeless, should we not be happy, as we are in no danger of suffering from eye disease? |
5173 | Were we born headless, should we not be happy, as we have to suffer from no headache? |
5173 | What business have you, a Samurai, with a thing of that sort? |
5173 | What can I do for you?" |
5173 | What does he hold as the first principle of Buddhism?'' |
5173 | What does his Absolute, or One, or Substance mean? |
5173 | What does his Reality or Truth imply? |
5173 | What holy text can be quoted to justify his assertion? |
5173 | What is Real Self? |
5173 | What is his view in reference to the different doctrines taught by Shakya Muni? |
5173 | What is morality, then? |
5173 | What is our sin, after all? |
5173 | What is self?'' |
5173 | What is the difference between eternal life, fixed and constant, and eternal death? |
5173 | What is the difference between everlasting bliss, changeless and monotonous, and everlasting suffering? |
5173 | What is the reason of all this? |
5173 | What is the use of your endeavour in the reformation of society, which does not endure any longer than the castle in the air? |
5173 | What is the use of your exertion, they would say, in accumulating wealth, which is doomed to melt away in the twinkling of an eye? |
5173 | What is the use of your striving after power, which is more short- lived than a bubble? |
5173 | What you hold as duty may I not condemn as sin? |
5173 | What you honour may I not denounce as disgrace? |
5173 | What, then, are the spirits of the dead( which they believe in)? |
5173 | What, then, is the chief agent that produces Karma? |
5173 | What, then, is the use of your worship?" |
5173 | When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked:''Where art thou from? |
5173 | Where do you go when your body is reduced to elements? |
5173 | Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie? |
5173 | Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie? |
5173 | Where does the real nature of mind exist? |
5173 | Where, then, does the Error Lie? |
5173 | Where, then, does the Error Lie? |
5173 | Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible propositions respecting man''s nature? |
5173 | Who can deny furthermore that Wang''s philosophy is Zen in the Confucian terminology? |
5173 | Who can deny that one''s physical conditions determine one''s character or personality? |
5173 | Who can draw a strict line of demarcation between mind and body? |
5173 | Who can live the same moment twice? |
5173 | Who can overlook the fact that one''s bodily conditions positively act upon one''s personal life? |
5173 | Who can say that Zen is nihilistic?" |
5173 | Who can tell whether another sanguinary affair will not break out before the Bulgarian bloodshed comes to an end? |
5173 | Who could blind your spiritual eyes, unless you yourself shut them up? |
5173 | Who could chain your will but your own will? |
5173 | Who could prevent you from enjoying moral food, unless you yourself refuse to eat? |
5173 | Who could put fetters on your mind but your mind itself? |
5173 | Who could save him who denies his own salvation? |
5173 | Who is that other person?" |
5173 | Who, then, after the destruction of body by death, would receive the retribution( in the form) of pain or of pleasure? |
5173 | Why are trees and grass which were also formed of the same Gas unconscious? |
5173 | Why did Lao Tsz, Chwang Tsz, Cheu Kung[FN#304] and Confucius do such a useless task as to found their doctrines and lay down the precepts for men? |
5173 | Why do the sun and the earth seem changeless and constant to you? |
5173 | Why do we prefer an animal life, which passes away in a few scores of years, to a vegetable life, which can exist thousands of years? |
5173 | Why do we prize changing organism more than inorganic matter, unchanging and constant? |
5173 | Why do we value the morning glory, which fades in a few hours, more than an artificial glass flower, which endures hundreds of years? |
5173 | Why do you bother yourself about such an idle question? |
5173 | Why do you not preach?" |
5173 | Why do you waste your energy in the construction of the Three Worlds? |
5173 | Why does it wait for some direct or indirect causes( to gain its knowledge), and to acquire them through study and instruction? |
5173 | Why not, then, these trees, grass, etc., the alphabets of Nature when they compose the Volume of the Universe? |
5173 | Why so many to be low and so few to be high? |
5173 | Why, then, do you trouble yourself about it? |
5173 | Why, we must ask, do you trouble yourself so much about death? |
5173 | Would you know where He is? |
5173 | Would you like to hear me, sir, tell you about death?'' |
5173 | Yoh Shan, pointing to the sky and then to the pitcher beside him, said:"You see?" |
5173 | [ FN#261]"Who ties you up?" |
5173 | [ FN#407] Ratnakuta- sutra(? |
5173 | what does it avail you to come and go all the time like this?'' |
12699 | And why do such as behold the stars look through a trunk with one eye? |
12699 | And why doth a basilisk kill a man with his sight? |
12699 | Are the menses which are expelled, and those by which the child is engendered, all one? |
12699 | Are they one or two? |
12699 | But does physiognomy give the same judgment on her, as it does of a man that is like unto her? |
12699 | By what means doth the milk of the paps come to the matrix or womb? |
12699 | For what reason do the menses not come down in females before the age of thirteen? |
12699 | For what reason do they leave off at about fifty? |
12699 | For what reason doth a man laugh sooner when touched in the armpits than in any other part of the body? |
12699 | For what reason doth the stomach join the liver? |
12699 | For what reason is the stomach large and wide? |
12699 | For what use hath a man hands, and an ape also, like unto a man? |
12699 | From whence do nails proceed? |
12699 | From whence proceeds the spittle of a man? |
12699 | How are hermaphrodites begotten? |
12699 | How come females to have monthly courses? |
12699 | How come hairy people to be more lustful than any other? |
12699 | How come living creatures to have a gall? |
12699 | How come steel glasses to be better for the sight than any other kind? |
12699 | How come the hair and nails of dead people to grow? |
12699 | How come those to have most mercy who have the thickest blood? |
12699 | How come women to be prone to venery in the summer time and men in the winter? |
12699 | How come women''s bodies to be looser, softer and less than man''s; and why do they want hair? |
12699 | How comes a man to sneeze oftener and more vehemently than a beast? |
12699 | How comes it that birds do not piss? |
12699 | How comes it that old men remember well what they have seen and done in their youth, and forget such things as they see and do in their old age? |
12699 | How comes it that such as have the hiccups do ease themselves by holding their breath? |
12699 | How comes it that the flesh of the heart is so compact and knit together? |
12699 | How comes it that the stomach is round? |
12699 | How comes marsh and pond water to be bad? |
12699 | How comes much labour and fatigue to be bad for the sight? |
12699 | How comes sleep to strengthen the stomach and the digestive faculty? |
12699 | How comes the blood chiefly to be in the heart? |
12699 | How comes the blood to all parts of the body through the liver, and by what means? |
12699 | How comes the heart to be the hottest part of all living creatures? |
12699 | How comes the jaundice to proceed from the gall? |
12699 | How comes the spleen to be black? |
12699 | How comes the stomach to be full of sinews? |
12699 | How comes the stomach to digest? |
12699 | How cometh the stomach slowly to digest meat? |
12699 | How doth love show its greater force by making the fool to become wise, or the wise to become a fool? |
12699 | How doth the urine come into the bladder, seeing the bladder is shut? |
12699 | How happens it that some creatures want a heart? |
12699 | How is it that the heart is continually moving? |
12699 | How is the child engendered in the womb? |
12699 | How is women''s blood thicker than men''s? |
12699 | How many humours are there in a man''s body? |
12699 | How many ways is the brain purged and other hidden places of the body? |
12699 | How much, and from what cause do we suffer hunger better than thirst? |
12699 | How, and of what cometh the seed of man? |
12699 | If water do not nourish, why do men drink it? |
12699 | Is an hermaphrodite accounted a man or a woman? |
12699 | May a man procure a dream by an external cause? |
12699 | Q. Doth the child in the womb void excrements or make water? |
12699 | Q. Wherefore do those men who have eyes far out in their head not see far distant? |
12699 | Q. Wherefore doth vinegar so readily staunch blood? |
12699 | Q. Wherefore should virtue be painted girded? |
12699 | Q. Whereof doth it proceed that want of sleep doth weaken the brain and body? |
12699 | Q. Whereof proceedeth gaping? |
12699 | Should he be baptized in the name of a man or a woman? |
12699 | Some have asked, what is the reason that women bring forth their children with so much pain? |
12699 | What are the properties of a choleric man? |
12699 | What causes men to yawn or gape? |
12699 | What condition and quality hath a man of a sanguine complexion? |
12699 | What dreams do follow these complexions? |
12699 | What is carnal copulation? |
12699 | What is the cause that some men die joyful, and some in extreme grief? |
12699 | What is the reason that if you cover an egg over with salt, and let it lie in it a few days, all the meat within is consumed? |
12699 | What is the reason that old men sneeze with great difficulty? |
12699 | What is the reason that some flowers do open with the sun rising, and shut with the sun setting? |
12699 | What is the reason that some men, if they see others dance, do the like with their hands and feet, or by other gestures of the body? |
12699 | What is the reason that such as are very fat in their youth, are in danger of dying on a sudden? |
12699 | What is the reason that those that have long yards can not beget children? |
12699 | What is the reason that when we think upon a horrible thing, we are stricken with fear? |
12699 | What is the reason, that if a spear be stricken on the end, the sound cometh sooner to one who standeth near, than to him who striketh? |
12699 | What kind of covetousness is best? |
12699 | What properties do follow those of a phlegmatic complexion? |
12699 | Whether are great, small or middle- sized paps best for children to suck? |
12699 | Whether is meat or drink best for the stomach? |
12699 | Whether it is hardest, to obtain a person''s love, or to keep it when obtained? |
12699 | Why are all the senses in the head? |
12699 | Why are beasts bold that have little hearts? |
12699 | Why are beasts when going together for generation very full of froth and foam? |
12699 | Why are boys apt to change their voices about fourteen years of age? |
12699 | Why are children oftener like the father than the mother? |
12699 | Why are colts''teeth yellow, and of the colour of saffron, when they are young, and become white when they grow up? |
12699 | Why are creatures with a large heart timorous, as the hare? |
12699 | Why are fruits, before they are ripe, of a bitter and sour relish, and afterward sweet? |
12699 | Why are gelded beasts weaker than such as are not gelded? |
12699 | Why are lepers hoarse? |
12699 | Why are men judged to be good or evil complexioned by the colour of the nails? |
12699 | Why are men that have but one eye, good archers? |
12699 | Why are men''s eyes of diverse colours? |
12699 | Why are not blind men naturally bald? |
12699 | Why are not old men so subject to the plague as young men and children? |
12699 | Why are not women bald? |
12699 | Why are nuts good after cheese, as the proverb is,"After fish nuts, and after flesh cheese?" |
12699 | Why are round ulcers hard to be cured? |
12699 | Why are sheep and pigeons mild? |
12699 | Why are some children like their father, some like their mother, some to both and some to neither? |
12699 | Why are some creatures brought forth with teeth, as kids and lambs; and some without, as men? |
12699 | Why are some men ambo- dexter, that is, they use the left hand as the right? |
12699 | Why are some women barren and do not conceive? |
12699 | Why are studious and learned men soonest bald? |
12699 | Why are such as are deaf by nature, dumb? |
12699 | Why are such as sleep much, evil disposed and ill- coloured? |
12699 | Why are the Jews much subject to this disease? |
12699 | Why are the arms round? |
12699 | Why are the arms thick? |
12699 | Why are the fingers full of joints? |
12699 | Why are the fingers of the right hand nimbler than the fingers of the left? |
12699 | Why are the heads of men hairy? |
12699 | Why are the lips moveable? |
12699 | Why are the lungs light, spongy and full of holes? |
12699 | Why are the paps below the breasts in beasts, and above the breast in women? |
12699 | Why are the paps placed upon the breasts? |
12699 | Why are the thighs and calves of the legs of men flesh, seeing the legs of beasts are not so? |
12699 | Why are the tongues of serpents and mad dogs venomous? |
12699 | Why are the white- meats made of a newly milked cow good? |
12699 | Why are they termed_ menstrua_, from the word_ mensis_, a month? |
12699 | Why are those waters best and most delicate which run towards the rising sun? |
12699 | Why are twins but half men, and not so strong as others? |
12699 | Why are water and oil frozen in cold weather, and wine and vinegar not? |
12699 | Why are we better delighted with sweet tastes than with bitter or any other? |
12699 | Why are we commonly cold after dinner? |
12699 | Why are whores never with child? |
12699 | Why are women smooth and fairer than men? |
12699 | Why are women''s paps hard when they be with child, and soft at other times? |
12699 | Why are young men sooner hungry than old men? |
12699 | Why can not a person escape death if the brain or heart be hurt? |
12699 | Why can not drunken men judge of taste as well as sober men? |
12699 | Why did nature give living creatures teeth? |
12699 | Why did nature make the nostrils? |
12699 | Why did the Romans call Fabius Maximus the target of the people, and Marcellus the sword? |
12699 | Why did the ancients say it was better to fall into the hands of a raven than a flatterer? |
12699 | Why do beasts move their ears, and not men? |
12699 | Why do bees, wasps, locusts and many other such like insects, make a noise, seeing they have no lungs, nor instruments of music? |
12699 | Why do cats''and wolves''eyes shine in the night, and not in the day? |
12699 | Why do chaff and straw keep water hot, but make snow cold? |
12699 | Why do children born in the eighth month for the most part die quickly, and why are they called the children of the moon? |
12699 | Why do contrary things in quality bring forth the same effect? |
12699 | Why do dolphins, when they appear above the water, denote a storm or tempest approaching? |
12699 | Why do fat women seldom conceive? |
12699 | Why do fish die after their back bones are broken? |
12699 | Why do garlic and onions grow after they are gathered? |
12699 | Why do grief and vexation bring grey hairs? |
12699 | Why do hard dens, hollow and high places, send back the likeness and sound of the voice? |
12699 | Why do hares sleep with their eyes open? |
12699 | Why do horned beasts want their upper teeth? |
12699 | Why do horses grow grisly and gray? |
12699 | Why do lettuces make a man sleep? |
12699 | Why do living creatures use carnal copulation? |
12699 | Why do many beasts when they see their friends, and a lion and a bull beat their sides when they are angry? |
12699 | Why do men and beasts who have their eyes deep in their head best see far off? |
12699 | Why do men feel cold sooner than women? |
12699 | Why do men get bald, and trees let fall their leaves in winter? |
12699 | Why do men incline to sleep after labour? |
12699 | Why do men live longer in hot regions than in cold? |
12699 | Why do men sleep better and more at ease on the right side than on the left? |
12699 | Why do men sneeze? |
12699 | Why do men wink in the act of copulation, and find a little alteration in all other senses? |
12699 | Why do not crows feed their young till they be nine days old? |
12699 | Why do not fish make a sound? |
12699 | Why do not swine cry when they are carried with their snouts upwards? |
12699 | Why do nurses rock and move their children when they would rock them to sleep? |
12699 | Why do persons become hoarse? |
12699 | Why do physicians forbid the eating of fish and milk at the same time? |
12699 | Why do physicians forbid us to labour presently after dinner? |
12699 | Why do physicians prescribe that men should eat when they have an appetite? |
12699 | Why do physicians prescribe that we should not eat too much at a time, but little by little? |
12699 | Why do serpents shun the herb rue? |
12699 | Why do small birds sing more and louder than great ones, as appears in the lark and nightingale? |
12699 | Why do some abound in spittle more than others? |
12699 | Why do some creatures want necks, as serpents and fishes? |
12699 | Why do some imagine in their sleep that they eat and drink sweet things? |
12699 | Why do some persons stammer and lisp? |
12699 | Why do some that have clear eyes see nothing? |
12699 | Why do some women love white men and some black men? |
12699 | Why do steel glasses shine so clearly? |
12699 | Why do such as are apoplectic sneeze, that is, such as are subject easily to bleed? |
12699 | Why do such as are corpulent cast forth but little seed in the act of copulation, and are often barren? |
12699 | Why do such as cleave wood, cleave it easier in the length than athwart? |
12699 | Why do such as use it often take less delight in it than those who come to it seldom? |
12699 | Why do such as weep much, urine but little? |
12699 | Why do such creatures as have no lungs want a bladder? |
12699 | Why do swine delight in dirt? |
12699 | Why do the arms become small and slender in some diseases, as in mad men, and such as are sick of the dropsy? |
12699 | Why do the dregs of wine and oil go to the bottom, and those of honey swim uppermost? |
12699 | Why do the eyes of a woman that hath her flowers, stain new glass? |
12699 | Why do the fore- teeth fall in youth, and grow again, and not the cheek teeth? |
12699 | Why do the fore- teeth grow soonest? |
12699 | Why do the hardness of the paps betoken the health of the child in the womb? |
12699 | Why do the nails of old men grow black and pale? |
12699 | Why do the paps of young women begin to grow about thirteen or fifteen years of age? |
12699 | Why do the teeth grow black in human creatures in their old age? |
12699 | Why do the teeth grow to the end of our life, and not the other bones? |
12699 | Why do the teeth only come again when they fall, or be taken out, and other bones being taken away, grow no more? |
12699 | Why do the teeth only, amongst all ether bones, experience the sense of feeling? |
12699 | Why do the tongues of such as are sick of agues judge all things bitter? |
12699 | Why do they at that time abhor their meat? |
12699 | Why do they continue longer with some than others, as with some six or seven, but commonly with all three days? |
12699 | Why do those of a hot constitution seldom conceive? |
12699 | Why do those that drink and laugh much, shed most tears? |
12699 | Why do we cast water in a man''s face when he swooneth? |
12699 | Why do we desire change of meals according to the change of times; as in winter, beef, mutton; in summer light meats, as veal, lamb, etc.? |
12699 | Why do we draw in more air than we breathe out? |
12699 | Why do we hear better in the night than by day? |
12699 | Why do we see ourselves in glasses and clear water? |
12699 | Why do white spots appear in the nails? |
12699 | Why do wolves grow grisly? |
12699 | Why do women conceive twins? |
12699 | Why do women easily conceive after their menses? |
12699 | Why do women easily miscarry when they are first with child, viz., the first, second or third month? |
12699 | Why do women look pale when they first have their menses upon them? |
12699 | Why do women show ripeness by hair in their privy parts, and not elsewhere, but men in their breasts? |
12699 | Why do women that eat unwholesome meats, easily miscarry? |
12699 | Why does hair burn so quickly? |
12699 | Why does hot water freeze sooner than cold? |
12699 | Why does much sleep cause some to grow fat and some lean? |
12699 | Why does not the hair of the feet soon grow grey? |
12699 | Why does the blueish grey eye see badly in the day- time and well in the night? |
12699 | Why does the heart beat in some creatures after the head is cut off, as in birds and hens? |
12699 | Why does the heat of the sun provoke sneezing, and not the heat of the fire? |
12699 | Why doth a child cry as soon as it is born? |
12699 | Why doth a cow give milk more abundantly than other beasts? |
12699 | Why doth a drunken man think that all things about him do turn round? |
12699 | Why doth a man die soon after the marrow is hurt or perished? |
12699 | Why doth a man gape when he seeth another do the same? |
12699 | Why doth a man lift up his head towards the heavens when he doth imagine? |
12699 | Why doth a man, when he museth or thinketh of things past, look towards the earth? |
12699 | Why doth a radish root help digestion and yet itself remaineth undigested? |
12699 | Why doth a sharp taste, as that of vinegar, provoke appetite rather than any other? |
12699 | Why doth an egg break if roasted, and not if boiled? |
12699 | Why doth carnal copulation injure melancholic or choleric men, especially thin men? |
12699 | Why doth grief cause men to grow old and grey? |
12699 | Why doth immoderate copulation do more hurt than immoderate letting of blood? |
12699 | Why doth it show weakness of the child, when the milk doth drop out of the paps before the woman is delivered? |
12699 | Why doth itching arise when an ulcer doth wax whole and phlegm ceases? |
12699 | Why doth man, above all other creatures, wax hoary and gray? |
12699 | Why doth much joy cause a woman to miscarry? |
12699 | Why doth much watching make the brain feeble? |
12699 | Why doth not oil mingle with moist things? |
12699 | Why doth oil, being drunk, cause one to vomit, and especially yellow choler? |
12699 | Why doth red hair grow white sooner than hair of any other colour? |
12699 | Why doth the air seem to be expelled and put forth, seeing the air is invisible, by reason of its variety and thinness? |
12699 | Why doth the child put its fingers into its mouth as soon as it cometh into the world? |
12699 | Why doth the hair fall after a great sickness? |
12699 | Why doth the hair grow on those that are hanged? |
12699 | Why doth the hair never grow on an ulcer or bile? |
12699 | Why doth the hair of the eyebrows grow long in old men? |
12699 | Why doth the hair stand on end when men are afraid? |
12699 | Why doth the hair take deeper root in man''s skin than in that of any other living creatures? |
12699 | Why doth the heat of the heart sometimes fail of a sudden, and in those who have the falling sickness? |
12699 | Why doth the shining of the moon hurt the head? |
12699 | Why doth the spittle of one that is fasting heal an imposthume? |
12699 | Why doth the sun make a man black and dirt white, wax soft and dirt hard? |
12699 | Why doth the tongue sometimes lose the use of speaking? |
12699 | Why doth the tongue water when we hear sour and sharp things spoken of? |
12699 | Why doth the voice change in men at fourteen, and in women at twelve; in men they begin to yield seed, in women when their breasts begin to grow? |
12699 | Why doth the woman love the man best who has got her maidenhead? |
12699 | Why doth water cast on serpents, cause them to fly? |
12699 | Why doth wrestling and leaping cause the casting of the child, as some subtle women do on purpose? |
12699 | Why has a man two eyes and but one mouth? |
12699 | Why has not a man a tail like a beast? |
12699 | Why hath a horse, mule, ass or cow a gall? |
12699 | Why hath a living creature a neck? |
12699 | Why hath a man a mouth? |
12699 | Why hath a man shoulders and arms? |
12699 | Why hath a man so much hair on his head? |
12699 | Why hath a man the worst smell of all creatures? |
12699 | Why hath a woman who is with child of a boy, the right pap harder than the left? |
12699 | Why hath every finger three joints, and the thumb but two? |
12699 | Why hath nature given all living creatures ears? |
12699 | Why hath the back bone so many joints or knots, called_ spondyli_? |
12699 | Why hath the mouth lips to compass it? |
12699 | Why have bats ears, although of the bird kind? |
12699 | Why have beasts a back? |
12699 | Why have beasts their hearts in the middle of their breasts, and man his inclining to the left? |
12699 | Why have birds their stones inward? |
12699 | Why have brute beasts no arms? |
12699 | Why have children gravel breeding in their bladders, and old men in their kidneys and veins? |
12699 | Why have children great eyes in their youth, which become small as they grow up? |
12699 | Why have choleric men beards before others? |
12699 | Why have melancholy beasts long ears? |
12699 | Why have men longer hair on their heads than any other living creature? |
12699 | Why have men more teeth than women? |
12699 | Why have men only round ears? |
12699 | Why have not birds and fish milk and paps? |
12699 | Why have not birds spittle? |
12699 | Why have not breeding women the menses? |
12699 | Why have not men as great paps and breasts as women? |
12699 | Why have not women beards? |
12699 | Why have not women their menses all one and the same time, but some in the new moon, some in the full, and others at the wane? |
12699 | Why have some animals no ears? |
12699 | Why have some commended flattery? |
12699 | Why have some creatures long necks, as cranes, storks and such like? |
12699 | Why have some men curled hair, and some smooth? |
12699 | Why have some men the piles? |
12699 | Why have some persons stinking breath? |
12699 | Why have some women soft hair and some hard? |
12699 | Why have the females of all living creatures the shrillest voices, the crow only excepted, and a woman a shriller and smaller voice than a man? |
12699 | Why have those beasts only lungs that have hearts? |
12699 | Why have vultures and cormorants a keen smell? |
12699 | Why have we oftentimes a pain in making water? |
12699 | Why have women longer hair than men? |
12699 | Why have women such weak and small voices? |
12699 | Why have women the headache oftener than men? |
12699 | Why have you one nose and two eyes? |
12699 | Why is Fortune painted with a double forehead, the one side bald and the other hairy? |
12699 | Why is a capon better to eat than a cock? |
12699 | Why is a dog''s tongue good for medicine, and a horse''s tongue pestiferous? |
12699 | Why is a man''s head round? |
12699 | Why is a man''s seed white, and a woman''s red? |
12699 | Why is a man, though endowed with reason, the most unjust of all living creatures? |
12699 | Why is all the body wrong when the stomach is uneasy? |
12699 | Why is every living creature dull after copulation? |
12699 | Why is goat''s milk reckoned best for the stomach? |
12699 | Why is he lean who hath a large spleen? |
12699 | Why is honey sweet to all men, but to such as have jaundice? |
12699 | Why is hot water lighter than cold? |
12699 | Why is immoderate carnal copulation hurtful? |
12699 | Why is it a good custom to eat cheese after dinner, and pears after all meat? |
12699 | Why is it esteemed, in the judgment of the most wise, the hardest thing to know a man''s self? |
12699 | Why is it good to drink after dinner? |
12699 | Why is it good to forbear a late supper? |
12699 | Why is it good to walk after dinner? |
12699 | Why is it hard to miscarry in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth month? |
12699 | Why is it hurtful to drink much cold water? |
12699 | Why is it hurtful to study soon after dinner? |
12699 | Why is it necessary that every living creature that hath blood have also a liver? |
12699 | Why is it not good soon after a bath? |
12699 | Why is it not proper after vomiting or looseness? |
12699 | Why is it unwholesome to drink new wine? |
12699 | Why is it unwholesome to wait long for one dish after another, and to eat of divers kinds of meat? |
12699 | Why is it wholesome to vomit? |
12699 | Why is love compared to a labyrinth? |
12699 | Why is man the proudest of all living creatures? |
12699 | Why is milk bad for such as have the headache? |
12699 | Why is milk fit nutriment for infants? |
12699 | Why is not milk wholesome? |
12699 | Why is not new bread good for the stomach? |
12699 | Why is not the head fleshy, like other parts of the body? |
12699 | Why is our life compared to a play? |
12699 | Why is our smell less in winter than in summer? |
12699 | Why is rain prognosticated by the pricking up of asses''ears? |
12699 | Why is sea- water salter in summer than in winter? |
12699 | Why is sneezing good? |
12699 | Why is spittle unsavoury and without taste? |
12699 | Why is spittle white? |
12699 | Why is the artery made with rings and circle? |
12699 | Why is the blood red? |
12699 | Why is the brain cold? |
12699 | Why is the brain moist? |
12699 | Why is the brain white? |
12699 | Why is the curing of an ulcer or bile in the kidneys or bladder very hard? |
12699 | Why is the eye clear and smooth like glass? |
12699 | Why is the flesh of the lungs white? |
12699 | Why is the hair of the beard thicker and grosser than elsewhere; and the more men are shaven, the harder and thicker it groweth? |
12699 | Why is the head not absolutely long but somewhat round? |
12699 | Why is the head subject to aches and griefs? |
12699 | Why is the heart first engendered; for the heart doth live first and die last? |
12699 | Why is the heart in the midst of the body? |
12699 | Why is the heart long and sharp like a pyramid? |
12699 | Why is the heart the beginning of life? |
12699 | Why is the melancholic complexion the worst? |
12699 | Why is the milk naught for the child, if the woman giving suck uses carnal copulation? |
12699 | Why is the milk white, seeing the flowers are red, of which it is engendered? |
12699 | Why is the neck full of bones and joints? |
12699 | Why is the neck hollow, and especially before, about the tongue? |
12699 | Why is the sight recreated and refreshed by a green colour? |
12699 | Why is the sparkling in cats''eyes and wolves''eyes seen in the dark and not in the light? |
12699 | Why is the spittle of a man that is fasting more subtle than of one that is full? |
12699 | Why is the tongue full of pores? |
12699 | Why is there such delight in the act of venery? |
12699 | Why is this action good in those that use it lawfully and moderately? |
12699 | Why is well- water seldom or ever good? |
12699 | Why only in men is the heart on the left side? |
12699 | Why should not the act be used when the body is full? |
12699 | Why should not the meat we eat be as hot as pepper and ginger? |
12699 | Why, if you put hot burnt barley upon a horse''s sore, is the hair which grows upon the sore not white, but like the other hair? |
12699 | _ Of Monsters._ Q. Doth nature make any monsters? |
12699 | and why do good archers commonly shut one? |