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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?"