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16964 | If we say,"A bar 81/2 feet long is to be cut into five pieces of equal length; how long should each piece be? |
16964 | The boy was unable to lay out the work, although when asked by the foreman,"Do n''t you know how to divide 81/2 by 5? |
16964 | What can I do to improve it?" |
21660 | If the employer and the employee were both satisfied with the conditions of their labor, why should the government interfere? |
21660 | If there was to be no external control, what incentive would actuate men in their industrial existence? |
21660 | This is the argument of Mrs. Browning''s_ Cry of the Children_:--"Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? |
21660 | What force would hold economic society together? |
3037 | Can these machines be made in Germany? |
3037 | Mr. Stetson,Ryan is said to have remarked,"do you know what you did when you drew up the papers of the Metropolitan Traction Company? |
3037 | What was that? |
3037 | Hain''t I got the power?" |
3037 | How many Americans realize that steel was used even less in 1865 than aluminum is used today? |
3037 | How many New Yorkers of today would look upon a man with$ 100,000 as"wealthy"? |
3037 | There were 6,000,000 farmers; what more receptive market could one ask? |
3037 | What explained this drop in price? |
3037 | What is the explanation of such insane finance? |
3037 | What suddenly made him turn his back upon his past, join his former enemies in Tammany Hall, and engage in these great speculative enterprises? |
3037 | What were the forces, personal and economic, that had produced this new phenomenon in our business life? |
3037 | Why not do it every week?" |
3037 | Why not give every poor man a Fifth Avenue house? |
3037 | he once roared on a similar occasion,"What do I care about law? |
3037 | said the Commodore,"you do n''t suppose you can run a railroad in accordance with the statutes of the State of New York, do you?" |
33741 | May I not do what I like with my own? |
33741 | Unhappy man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
33741 | Why,they ask,"should we not reap in old age the advantage of energy and thrift in youth?" |
33741 | And how can the worker secure these conditions, if as a consumer, he demands cheap goods? |
33741 | And what do they show? |
33741 | But when these{ 135} workers and their sympathizers are deducted, what is"the community"which remains? |
33741 | Do men love peace? |
33741 | Do they desire greater industrial efficiency? |
33741 | Do they value equality? |
33741 | Food, clothing, house- room, art, knowledge? |
33741 | For how can the consumer be supplied with cheap goods, if, as a worker, he insists on higher wages and shorter hours? |
33741 | How are these psychological obstacles to efficiency to be counteracted? |
33741 | How do royalties differ from_ quintaines_ and_ lods et ventes_? |
33741 | How do urban ground- rents differ from the payments which were made to English sinecurists before the Reform Bill of 1832? |
33741 | Is not_ less_ production of futilities as important as, indeed a condition of,_ more_ production of things of moment? |
33741 | May not the"owner"whose rights they are designed to protect not unreasonably reply to their authors,"Thank you for nothing"? |
33741 | The provision of capital? |
33741 | Why is the service supplied by the industry ineffective? |
33741 | Will they have as much freedom, initiative and authority in the service of the community as under private ownership? |
33741 | Would not"Spend less on private luxuries"be as wise a cry as"produce more"? |
33741 | but"What service does it perform?" |
33741 | one simple question may be addressed:--"Produce what?" |
33741 | { 107} Why do they not give their best energies? |
33741 | { 123} VIII THE"VICIOUS CIRCLE"What form of management should replace the administration of industry by the agents of shareholders? |
38367 | Which is the cheapest,said the committee to Joseph Foster,"a piece of goods made by a power- loom, or a piece of goods made by a hand- loom?" |
38367 | _ Q._ Do you consider, therefore, that the introduction of machinery is objectionable? 38367 And does not all this machinery, and this economy of labour, it may still be said, deprive many workmen of employment? 38367 And how did Arkwright effect this great revolution? 38367 And how did we learn these modes? 38367 And how does the Englishman obtain his knife upon such easy terms? 38367 And what has quadrupled the population? 38367 And what is to set them to that work? 38367 And who can doubt, that the nearer we approach to this state, the better will it be for the general condition of mankind? 38367 And why did he die of grief and penury? 38367 And why not? 38367 And why? 38367 Are there fewer servants now employed than in those times of barbarous state? 38367 Boulton? |
38367 | But how would the fact turn out? |
38367 | But suppose that the man knows the particular ore or stone that contains the iron, how is he to get it out? |
38367 | But what had he to exchange? |
38367 | But what has made us free? |
38367 | But what has this, it may be said, to do with the price of clothing? |
38367 | But what was the consequence in a year or two? |
38367 | But without machinery how could that most beautiful article, a_ fine_ needle, be sold at the rate of six for a penny? |
38367 | Can we correct these evils by saying that the profits of the itinerant traders ought to be raised? |
38367 | Does any one ask if society was in a worse state in consequence? |
38367 | Does any one ever think of_ manufacturing_ water? |
38367 | How have we obtained this great superiority over these poor savages? |
38367 | How is such a class to be dealt with? |
38367 | How is that to be done? |
38367 | How is this? |
38367 | How much more difficult would it be to make a perfect cylinder the size of a pin? |
38367 | How then would the case have stood as to the amount of labour engaged in the supply of water? |
38367 | How were they, without the accustomed aid from the traders, to subsist themselves and their families during the ensuing winter? |
38367 | How would the sorter of the wool, for example, know how to perform the business of the scourer, or of the dyer, or of the carder? |
38367 | Is this terrible evil incapable of remedy? |
38367 | Should we not laugh at the gardener who went to hoe his potatoes with a stick having a short crook at the end? |
38367 | The charcoal, or coke, answers for one purpose; but we have still the clay or other earth mixed with our iron, and how are we to get rid of that? |
38367 | The old cry was,"_ Any milk here_?" |
38367 | There is a grocer''s shop at every turn; and who therefore needs him who salutes us with"_ Lily- white vinegar_?" |
38367 | Walking by a wheelwright''s shop in some quiet village, did our readers ever see the operation of"tiring"a wheel? |
38367 | We ask with confidence, had the terror of the stocking- frame any real foundation? |
38367 | Were any people thrown out of employment by the stocking- frame? |
38367 | What gave him this power to labour profitably?--to maintain existence in tolerable comfort? |
38367 | What has created this enormous manufacture of one of the most improved articles of domestic utility? |
38367 | What has given the hat- makers four times as much work? |
38367 | What has given their industry its chief impulse? |
38367 | What is the consequence of this? |
38367 | What is the effect upon the condition of pressmen generally by the introduction of the printing- machine to do the heaviest labour of printing? |
38367 | What then? |
38367 | What then? |
38367 | What was the effect upon the condition of this very population? |
38367 | Whence comes it that the labour of between four hundred and five hundred years is reduced to a single day? |
38367 | Whence should the difference proceed? |
38367 | Where do the cows abide? |
38367 | Where, then, would all this madness end? |
38367 | Who made this great change in the condition of the people of England, and, indeed, of the people of almost all civilized countries? |
38367 | Who thinks of burying treasure now in England? |
38367 | Who would have thought that this contrivance would have led to no large results till a hundred and fifty years had passed away? |
38367 | Why deliberate about a horse- churn, when they were resolved against a winnowing- machine? |
38367 | Why did he not attempt to make blankets? |
38367 | Why is money not hidden and not sought for now? |
38367 | Why is this? |
38367 | Why leave a machine which separates the clods of the earth, and break one which puts seed into it? |
38367 | Why should the labourers of Aylesbury not have destroyed the harrows as well as the drills? |
38367 | Would the destruction of all the bells therefore add one- fourth to the demand for servants? |
38367 | and that which, independently of the carriage, would have cost ten thousand pounds, is got for eighteen pence? |
38367 | are you turning effeminate?" |
38367 | or the carder that of the spinner or the weaver? |
38367 | or the weaver that of the miller, or boiler, or dyer, or brusher, or cutter, or presser? |
38367 | or"_ A brass pot or an iron pot to mend_?" |
1349 | * On being asked for their opinion, they replied vaguely,How should we know? |
1349 | An inn? |
1349 | And does harmony generally reign in peasant households? |
1349 | And what did we Russians do all this time? 1349 And what is a Feldsher?" |
1349 | And what is the effect of an inhibition? |
1349 | And what kind of faith have they? |
1349 | And when will there be some? |
1349 | And why do you wish to know? |
1349 | And why has he not been taken there? |
1349 | And you always bring home a big pile of money with you? |
1349 | Are our brothers dying, and do your wives and children remain without a bit of bread? |
1349 | Are the Molokanye, then, very bad people? |
1349 | Are you, too, a Nihilist? |
1349 | Do we require Manchuria? |
1349 | Do you hear that, ye orthodox? 1349 Hot, very hot?" |
1349 | How can that be? 1349 How could he be taken? |
1349 | How shall I tell you? |
1349 | Is it better than the faith of the Molokanye? |
1349 | Is it not rather dangerous,I inquired,"to take the law thus into your own hands? |
1349 | Is it to the east, or the west? |
1349 | Is it very far away? |
1349 | Ivanofka? |
1349 | Now? |
1349 | So you have an assistant, have you? |
1349 | The Zemstvo is the new local administration, is it not? |
1349 | The town,he was wo nt to say on such occasions,"has been entrusted to me by his Majesty, and you dare to talk to me of the law? |
1349 | Then you must expose yourself to all kinds of extortion? |
1349 | Very well, you shall have four,says the leading spirit to Ivan; and then, turning to the crowd, inquires,"Shall it be so?" |
1349 | We listened to these words with deep reverence, and gave a tacit consent; and what was the result? 1349 What do you say, little father?" |
1349 | What have you done with the Son of God? 1349 What is that? |
1349 | What is the use of applying to the justices? 1349 What preparations have we made,"they asked,"for the struggle with civilisation, which now sends its forces against us? |
1349 | What''s this? |
1349 | What, pray, could they work at? |
1349 | Where have you taken us to? |
1349 | Where is that country? |
1349 | Who knows if they will marry? |
1349 | Who knows? |
1349 | Who pays for the war? |
1349 | Why, then, do you think their faith is so much worse than that of the Mahometans? |
1349 | ''* Are not the Russians a religious people?" |
1349 | ''What need we care,''we said,''for the reproaches of foreign nations? |
1349 | ( Who knows what sort of a fellow he is?) |
1349 | ("Kak vam skazat''? |
1349 | ("There is not enough land"); and one notices that those who look a little ahead ask anxiously:"What is to become of our children? |
1349 | ("What is to be Done? |
1349 | * Where were our millions of soldiers? |
1349 | A very ingenious defence of all kinds of rascality, is n''t it?" |
1349 | And how did Napoleon get to Wilhelmshohe? |
1349 | And is not the proprietor of a few hundred morgen in Germany often richer than the Russian noble who has thousands of dessyatins? |
1349 | And supposing they succeeded in starting the new system, where was the working capital to come from? |
1349 | And then, who knows what they do with people in the hospital?" |
1349 | And then? |
1349 | And to these reproaches what could they reply? |
1349 | And what have you done? |
1349 | And what is done with all the money that is taken from them? |
1349 | And what is the nature of the process? |
1349 | And what then will the hungry Proletariat do? |
1349 | And why do the people not respect the clergy? |
1349 | And why was the railway constructed in this extraordinary fashion? |
1349 | Arbiter:"If the Tsar can make as much money as he likes, why does he make you pay the poll- tax every year?" |
1349 | Arbiter:"Who, then, receives them?" |
1349 | Are not the landed proprietors of England-- the country in which serfage was first abolished-- the richest in the world? |
1349 | But does not the Commune, as it exists, prevent good cultivation according to the mode of agriculture actually in use? |
1349 | But is there any reasonable chance of these sanguine expectations being realised? |
1349 | But perhaps''all men''does not include publicans and sinners?" |
1349 | But the Emperor? |
1349 | But what does it prove? |
1349 | But what does the word"retreat"mean in this case? |
1349 | But what has all this to do, it may be asked, with the aforementioned Volkerwanderung, or migration of peoples, during the Dark Ages? |
1349 | But what kind of service? |
1349 | But what of their Panslavist aspirations? |
1349 | But what, it may be asked, has social reform to do with natural science? |
1349 | But where is there a man of original genius? |
1349 | But where were the Conservatives all this time? |
1349 | But why, it may be said, should the widow not accept provisionally the five shares, and let to others the part which she does not require? |
1349 | But would they be able to accomplish it? |
1349 | Could you get an Englishman to work at that rate?" |
1349 | Did ye never hear tell o''John Abercrombie, the famous Edinburgh doctor?" |
1349 | Do you agree?" |
1349 | Do you think he''s a baby? |
1349 | Does the reader suspect that I have here chosen an extremely exceptional case? |
1349 | Does, then, the existence of the Mir prevent the peasants from manuring their fields well? |
1349 | Has the material and moral condition of the peasantry improved since the Emancipation? |
1349 | Have they been indirectly indemnified for the loss of serf labour by subsequent economic changes? |
1349 | Have you any Aborigines Protection Society in this part of the world?" |
1349 | He knows that the contract is unfair to him, but what is he to do? |
1349 | He would introduce the gold currency as recommended; but how was the requisite capital to be obtained? |
1349 | Here he wrote and published, with the permission of the authorities and the imprimatur of the Press censure, a novel called"Shto delat''?" |
1349 | How are our little horses to drag these big ploughs? |
1349 | How are we to economise? |
1349 | How came it that for two or three years no voice was raised and no protest made even against the rhetorical exaggerations of the new- born liberalism? |
1349 | How can she remain in the place after her husband was killed in a duel by a brother officer? |
1349 | How could agricultural or industrial progress be made without free labour? |
1349 | How could the Government take active measures for the spread of national education when it had no direct control over one- half of the peasantry? |
1349 | How could this be explained except by the radical defects of that system which had been long practised with such inflexible perseverance? |
1349 | How did this important change take place, and how is it to be explained? |
1349 | How far have they succeeded in making the transition from serfage to free labour, and what revenues do they now derive from their estates? |
1349 | How have they acted, for instance, towards the Zemstvo? |
1349 | How many?" |
1349 | How was that possible? |
1349 | How, it may be asked, did a work of this sort find its way to such a place? |
1349 | How, then, does the Commune distribute the land? |
1349 | How, then, the reader may ask, is an issue to be found out of the present imbroglio? |
1349 | I enquire of him when my case is likely to come on, and receive the laconic answer,''How should I know?'' |
1349 | If it took three years for the preparatory investigation of a district and a half, how many years will be required for eleven districts? |
1349 | If the peasant was indolent and careless even under strict supervision, what would he become when no longer under the authority of a master? |
1349 | If the profits from farming were already small, what would they be when no one would work without wages? |
1349 | In answer to the question, Who effected this gigantic reform? |
1349 | In reply to his question,"Well, children, what do you want?" |
1349 | In spite of his efforts, Ivan could not get much further than the"Kak vam skazat''?" |
1349 | In such cases what is the jury to do? |
1349 | Instead of adopting this simple procedure, what does the Zemstvo do? |
1349 | Is annexation followed by assimilation, or do the new acquisitions retain their old character? |
1349 | Is history about to repeat itself, or are we on the eve of a cataclysm? |
1349 | Is it a mere barbarous lust of territorial aggrandisement, or is it some more reasonable motive? |
1349 | It is only too true, but who is to blame? |
1349 | Many a proprietor who had formerly vegetated in apathetic ease had to ask himself the question: How am I to gain a living? |
1349 | Might not such a class be created in Russia? |
1349 | Of the latter they would probably say,"Kto ikh znact?" |
1349 | On such occasions he may stand back a little from the crowd and say,"Well, orthodox, have you decided so?" |
1349 | Or will it impinge on our Indian frontier, directed by those who desire to avenge themselves on Japan''s ally for the reverses sustained in Manchuria? |
1349 | Other countries, it is said, have existed and thriven under free political institutions, and why not Russia? |
1349 | That field belongs to the landlord?" |
1349 | That the Russian people are morally inferior to the German? |
1349 | The important question for the general public is: How do the institutions work in the local conditions in which they are placed? |
1349 | The welfare of the agriculturists, who constitute nine- tenths of the whole population, was being ruthlessly sacrificed, and for what? |
1349 | Then arose, all along the line of the defeated, decimated revolutionists, the cry,"What is to be done?" |
1349 | Then why not take covered sledges on such occasions? |
1349 | Thereupon a more experienced orator comes forward and a characteristic conversation takes place:"Have we much land of our own, my friends?" |
1349 | Very soon English goods will no longer find foreign markets, and how will the hungry Proletariat then be fed? |
1349 | Was it not you who got drunk and beat your wife till she roused the whole village with her shrieking? |
1349 | Was it obtained from some other race, or is it indigenous? |
1349 | Was such a thing ever heard of? |
1349 | Was the movement, then, merely an outburst of childish petulance? |
1349 | What better opening could be desired? |
1349 | What do they expect from us in return? |
1349 | What emperor was this? |
1349 | What has it done for Russia in the past, and what is it doing in the present? |
1349 | What is Gogol?" |
1349 | What is Lermontoff? |
1349 | What is Pushkin? |
1349 | What is a Nihilist?" |
1349 | What is his relation to the Synod and to the Church in general? |
1349 | What is our famous poet Zhukofski? |
1349 | What is the secret of this expansive power? |
1349 | What is this Feldsher?" |
1349 | What is your opinion?" |
1349 | What then could they seek to defend? |
1349 | What will his first step be? |
1349 | What will it be in the future?" |
1349 | What would they become when this guidance and salutary restraint should be removed? |
1349 | What, then, are the relations between Church and State? |
1349 | What, then, was Emancipation? |
1349 | When a parish priest dies, what is to become of his wife and daughters?" |
1349 | When any great enterprise is projected, the first question is--"How will this new scheme affect the interests of the State?" |
1349 | Whence, then, was it derived? |
1349 | Where am I to get the money to pay a labourer?" |
1349 | Where could he get that money? |
1349 | Where was the well- considered plan of defence? |
1349 | Where were the representatives of the old regime, who had been so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Nicholas? |
1349 | Who is to carry him? |
1349 | Who knows but my children may be very glad some day to have a share of the Commune land?" |
1349 | Who, then, are the Terrorists, who have assassinated so many great personages, including the Grand Duke Serge? |
1349 | Whom shall we choose?" |
1349 | Why are they bearing hardships and taking so much trouble? |
1349 | Why should he trouble himself with these new schemes, when he might live comfortably as he was? |
1349 | Why should his Reverence meddle with things that do n''t concern him?" |
1349 | Why should not Russia follow the example of England and Tuscany? |
1349 | Why should she be a pariah among the nations? |
1349 | Why, then, did the peasant often prefer the northern forests to the fertile Steppe where the land was already prepared for him? |
1349 | Will he not, if he have merely an ordinary moral character, consider himself justified in inventing a few falsehoods in order to effect his escape? |
1349 | Will it confine itself for some years to a process of infiltration in Mongolia and Northern Thibet, the line of least resistance? |
1349 | You are not in a hurry, I hope?" |
1349 | You can?" |
1349 | You have been on the Sheksna?" |
1349 | You know what these words mean?" |
1349 | retorts the woman, wandering from the subject in hand;"what did YOU do last parish fete? |
1349 | that is to say,"How am I to tell you?" |