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| 38373 | Shall America,he asked,"be only an echo of what is thought and written in the aristocracies beyond the ocean?" |
| 38373 | Why should I give up my thought, because I can not answer an objection to it?... |
| 38373 | Ample provision was made for conventions in behalf of education and reform; but what was to be done for religion? |
| 38373 | An opponent who feared that this would destroy private property was answered thus:"Has he ever heard of Pennsylvania?" |
| 38373 | As Phillips was returning from this meeting, Theodore Parker said to him,"Wendell, why do you make a fool of yourself?" |
| 38373 | But what becomes of people who have no parlours? |
| 38373 | For instance, of servant- girls who have no place where they can sing or even laugh? |
| 38373 | He finds an opportunity to introduce an enthusiastic panegyric on the victories of Napoleon, closing with the question:"What could be more grand?" |
| 38373 | He went on to ask,"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" |
| 38373 | His contributors spoke often of the right of slaves to resist, and asked,"In God''s name, why should they not cut their masters''throats?" |
| 38373 | How does anyone know which of his instincts and impulses to control and which to cultivate? |
| 38373 | If my cup wo n''t hold but a pint, and yourn holds a quart, would n''t ye be mean not to let me have my little half- measure full?" |
| 38373 | In protesting against subordinating reason to faith, Ingersoll says:"Ought the sailor to throw away his compass and depend entirely on the fog?" |
| 38373 | Intuition is plainly not an infallible oracle; but is it merely a misleading prejudice? |
| 38373 | Is there no need of them on the day when there is more drinking, gambling, and other gross vice than on any other? |
| 38373 | Libraries and museums are blessed places of refuge; but"What are they among so many?" |
| 38373 | Need I say what day keeps our policemen and criminal courts most busy, or crowds our hospitals with sufferers from riotous brawls? |
| 38373 | Nothing could be more complete for the working- classes; but what will become of us?" |
| 38373 | One man could make as much cotton cloth in a day as two hundred could have done before; but what was to become of the one hundred and ninety- nine? |
| 38373 | Should those who wish to rest as much as possible on Sunday sleep in church? |
| 38373 | Their action called out the spirited poem in which Whittier said:"What marvel if the people learn To claim the right of free opinion? |
| 38373 | Then an illiterate old woman who had been a slave arose and said:"What''s dat got to do with women''s rights, or niggers''rights either? |
| 38373 | Was he the greatest of architects, every one of whose colossal structures fell under their own weight before they could be used? |
| 38373 | What better light has he than is given either by his own experience or by that of his parents and other teachers? |
| 38373 | What marvel if at times they spurn The ancient yoke of your dominion?" |
| 38373 | Who can say whether unbelief, orthodoxy, or liberal Christianity is the legitimate outcome of this ubiquitous philosophy? |
| 38373 | Why should every week in a democratic country begin with an aristocratic Sunday, a day whose pleasures are mainly for the rich? |
| 34890 | Are we prepared to deal with a government in one country and a people in another? |
| 34890 | But did we know what we_ were_ fighting for? |
| 34890 | CHAPTER III United...? |
| 34890 | Can we say these men created the true, the original America; and everything since then has been a corruption of its 100% goodness and purity? |
| 34890 | Contents PAGE CHAPTER I TOTAL VICTORY 13 CHAPTER II STRATEGY FOR THE CITIZEN 29 CHAPTER III UNITED...? |
| 34890 | Did England shrink in 1914? |
| 34890 | Have we a source of unity which can oppose this totality? |
| 34890 | If the Nazi argument is not valid, why did we first thank Japan for unity, and then discover that we had no unity? |
| 34890 | If we unite, and we are dominant, do we not accept the responsibility of domination? |
| 34890 | Or France under Napoleon? |
| 34890 | Or Rome under Augustus? |
| 34890 | Or Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus? |
| 34890 | Something in us shies away from the pomp of the old diplomacy-- what is that something? |
| 34890 | We all know, indifferently, that people( somewhere-- where was it?--wasn''t there a movie about them?) |
| 34890 | We may quarrel over the blame for the impotence of the League; did France invade the Ruhr because, without us in the League, she needed"protection"? |
| 34890 | We used to like revolutionaries and never understood colonial exploitation-- how do these things affect us now? |
| 34890 | What can the Norwegian or the Bulgar or the Rumanian believe, except that there is a superior race-- and it is not his own? |
| 34890 | What does it do? |
| 34890 | What had happened to the constant American liberal tradition? |
| 34890 | What had rendered sterile the ancient fruitful heritage of American radicalism? |
| 34890 | Why are Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo insecure if we survive? |
| 34890 | Why did America suddenly break with its progressive tradition-- and what was the result? |
| 34890 | Why were we in danger so long as they were victorious? |
| 34890 | Why were we pulling against one another, so that in the first year of the war we were distracted and ineffective, as France had been? |
| 34890 | Why? |
| 34890 | _ Are We Anglo- Saxon?_ At this point the direct political implications of"becoming American"become evident. |
| 34890 | _ Q._ Can the U.S. fight the war successfully without accepting the active principles of the Totalitarian States? |
| 34890 | _ Q._ Can the U.S. join a world federation regulating specific economic problems, such as access to raw materials, tariffs, etc.? |
| 34890 | _ Q._ Can the U.S. unite permanently with any single nation or any exclusive group of nations? |
| 34890 | _ Q._ Should the U.S. try to democratize the Germans or accept the view that the Germans are a race incapable of self- government? |
| 34890 | _ What Is Morale''s Pulse?_ This is, of course, another way of saying that morale is affected by propaganda. |
| 34890 | _ Who Asked Them to Come?_ The next image in our minds is a bad one for us to hold because it makes us feel smug and benevolent. |
| 34890 | _ Who Can Do It?_ An effective use of the instruments is now possible. |
| 34890 | or did we stay out of the League because we knew France would go into the Ruhr? |
| 13132 | Were you ever in love, Davis? |
| 13132 | What better can he do than inquire, if he is in doubt? |
| 13132 | And what purpose does it serve now? |
| 13132 | And what should be our reply? |
| 13132 | But on what ground, then, shall we find agreement, the recognition of which Irish Citizenship implies? |
| 13132 | But what is the secret of strength? |
| 13132 | But who can hope for this final peace while any part of our independence is denied? |
| 13132 | Can anyone doubt from this sign of the times alone that the hour points to freedom, and we are on the road to victory? |
| 13132 | Certain things are obvious, but how many see what is below the surface? |
| 13132 | Do we not have set debates with speakers appointed on each side? |
| 13132 | Does anyone suppose we can start a fight for freedom without making that danger a grimmer reality? |
| 13132 | Had revenge in this instance any other effect than to increase, instead of diminishing, the mass of malice and evil already existing in the world? |
| 13132 | Has he ever realised the promise of his proposals? |
| 13132 | How is the woman training for to- morrow? |
| 13132 | How is this? |
| 13132 | How, then, will the man stand by that very binding relationship? |
| 13132 | How? |
| 13132 | II The ubiquitous pseudo- practical man, petulant and critical, will at once arise:"What is the use of discussing arms in Ireland? |
| 13132 | In the crisis how does his wife act? |
| 13132 | Is it not strange, that it has become necessary to ask and answer this question? |
| 13132 | Is not the attitude on both sides evidence of the danger? |
| 13132 | Let the enemy count his dreadnoughts and number off his legions-- where are now the legions of Rome and Carthage? |
| 13132 | Mr. Angell writes:"What in the name of common sense is the advantage of conquering them if the only policy is to let them do as they like?" |
| 13132 | Shall we honour the flag we bear by a mean, apologetic front? |
| 13132 | Some may say with irritation: Why raise this matter? |
| 13132 | THE BEARNA BAOGHAIL-- CONCLUSION+ PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM+ CHAPTER I THE BASIS OF FREEDOM I Why should we fight for freedom? |
| 13132 | Then there is the irreconcilable-- how is he regarded in the common cry? |
| 13132 | These social missiles are flying in all directions, always gracious and flattering, never challenging and rude-- who can withstand them? |
| 13132 | V If we so understand intellectual freedom, in what does its denial consist? |
| 13132 | Was not the pretext for this latter system of spoliation derived immediately from the former? |
| 13132 | What ensues? |
| 13132 | What in a political assembly is often the first thing to note? |
| 13132 | What is his attitude? |
| 13132 | What is its value as a force? |
| 13132 | What is the weakness? |
| 13132 | What prevents ye going out to begin?" |
| 13132 | What surly man would resent sympathy? |
| 13132 | What then of the places where men of diverging views meet; do we abjure the flag? |
| 13132 | What, then, is the true basis to our claim to freedom? |
| 13132 | What, then, will uplift him if he has been a waverer in principle as well as in fact? |
| 13132 | When the need is greatest, should the practice be less urgent? |
| 13132 | Where are now the empires of antiquity? |
| 13132 | Who can claim it a wise policy merely for the moment to dodge it? |
| 13132 | Who, then, can hope for peace where into the strife is imported a race difference, where the division is not of party but of people? |
| 13132 | Why avail of all the Local Government machinery?" |
| 13132 | Why is he found wanting? |
| 13132 | Why then recognise the County Councils created by Bill at Westminster? |
| 13132 | Why then use English coins and stamps? |
| 13132 | Will clinging arms hold him back or proud ones wave him on? |
| 13132 | Would she not ignore us if it were quite safe so to do? |
| 13132 | XI What, then, to conclude, must be our decision? |
| 13132 | Yes, but cries an objector,"Why plead for friendship with England, who will have peace only on condition of her supremacy?" |
| 13132 | Yet, we must take our flag everywhere? |
| 34901 | ( it may be asked) Is the absence of unanimity an indispensable condition of true knowledge? |
| 34901 | A people, it appears, may be progressive for a certain length of time, and then stop: when does it stop? |
| 34901 | As soon as mankind have unanimously accepted a truth, does the truth perish within them? |
| 34901 | Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? |
| 34901 | But what will be his comparative worth as a human being? |
| 34901 | But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? |
| 34901 | Do the fruits of conquest perish by the very completeness of the victory? |
| 34901 | Fornication, for example, must be tolerated, and so must gambling; but should a person be free to be a pimp, or to keep a gambling- house? |
| 34901 | How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society? |
| 34901 | How( it may be asked) can any part of the conduct of a member of society be a matter of indifference to the other members? |
| 34901 | If there were nothing new to be done, would human intellect cease to be necessary? |
| 34901 | In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? |
| 34901 | Is it necessary that some part of mankind should persist in error, to enable any to realise the truth? |
| 34901 | Is the belief in a God one of the opinions, to feel sure of which, you hold to be assuming infallibility? |
| 34901 | Not only in what concerns others, but in what concerns only themselves, the individual, or the family, do not ask themselves-- what do I prefer? |
| 34901 | Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? |
| 34901 | Ought this to be interfered with, or not? |
| 34901 | Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars? |
| 34901 | They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position? |
| 34901 | They can not see what it is to do for them: how should they? |
| 34901 | What are they now? |
| 34901 | What do Protestants think of these perfectly sincere feelings, and of the attempt to enforce them against non- Catholics? |
| 34901 | What has made the European family of nations an improving, instead of a stationary portion of mankind? |
| 34901 | What is it that has hitherto preserved Europe from this lot? |
| 34901 | What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? |
| 34901 | Where does the authority of society begin? |
| 34901 | Who, after this imbecile display, can indulge the illusion that religious persecution has passed away, never to return? |
| 34901 | Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? |
| 34901 | Would it be a reason why those who do the old things should forget why they are done, and do them like cattle, not like human beings? |
| 34901 | Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? |
| 34901 | Yet who is there that is not afraid to recognise and assert this truth? |
| 34901 | [ 14] Would it be a legitimate exercise of the moral authority of public opinion? |
| 34901 | and if not, why not? |
| 34901 | or how can the answer be known to be satisfactory, if the objectors have no opportunity of showing that it is unsatisfactory? |
| 34901 | or what worse can be said of any obstruction to good, than that it prevents this? |
| 34901 | or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience? |
| 34901 | or who can blame people for desiring to suppress what they regard as a scandal in the sight of God and man? |
| 34901 | or( worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? |
| 34901 | or, what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair- play, and enable it to grow and thrive? |
| 34901 | or, what would suit my character and disposition? |
| 34901 | what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances? |
| 31278 | And who will deny,adds a Protestant classic,"that the fault was partly owing to them?" |
| 31278 | What boots it,he exclaimed,"to condemn errors that have been long condemned, and tempt no Catholic? |
| 31278 | What remains of Christianity,exclaimed Beza,"if we silently admit what this man has expectorated in his preface?... |
| 31278 | [ 313] Two generations later Salvianus exclaims:Quid est aliud paene omnis coetus Christianorum quam sentina vitiorum? |
| 31278 | 6):"Miramur si terrae... nostrorum omnium a Deo barbaris datae sunt, cum eas quae Romani polluerant fornicatione, nunc mundent barbari castitate? |
| 31278 | And for all this, what have they gained? |
| 31278 | But how can a view of policy constitute a philosophy? |
| 31278 | Connaissez- vous un roi qui mérite d''être libre, dans le sens implicite du mot?... |
| 31278 | Darf ich andre verurtheilen_ in eodem luto mecum haerentes_?" |
| 31278 | Depuis la révolution il semble que ces sortes de différences s''évanouissent.... Les Bostoniens ne sont- ils pas fort dévots?... |
| 31278 | Dr. Martineau attributes this doctrine to Mill:"Do we ask what determines the moral quality of actions? |
| 31278 | Et George IV., croyez- vous que je serais son ministre, s''il avait été libre de choisir?... |
| 31278 | Et non è questo peggio che heretica dottrina? |
| 31278 | For what is the Holy See in its relation to the masses of Catholics, and where does its strength lie? |
| 31278 | Has God gone to sleep and let the house be destroyed, or let in the enemy through want of watchfulness? |
| 31278 | How can the stranger understand where the children of the kingdom are deceived? |
| 31278 | How could these principles be favourable to them? |
| 31278 | If the end be not religion, is it morality, humanity, civilisation, knowledge? |
| 31278 | Is it a process of renovation or a process of dissolution in which European society is plunged? |
| 31278 | Is she therefore to deny or smother it? |
| 31278 | Is she therefore to say that his right is no right, or that all intolerance is necessarily wrong? |
| 31278 | Me déclarer contre l''Italie parce que ses chaînes tombent mal à propos? |
| 31278 | Numquid( Dominus) dormitando aedificium suum perdidit, aut non custodiendo hostes admisit?... |
| 31278 | Oubliez- vous que les rois ne doivent pas donner des institutions, mais que les institutions seules doivent donner des rois?... |
| 31278 | People used to know how often, or how seldom, Washington laughed during the war; but who has numbered the jokes of Lincoln? |
| 31278 | Quand un roi dénie au peuple les institutions do nt le peuple a besoin, quel est le procédé de l''Angleterre? |
| 31278 | Qui aurait pu même songer à un développement dogmatique?" |
| 31278 | Quid expavescis quia pereunt regna terrena? |
| 31278 | St. Augustine, after quoting Seneca, exclaims:"What more could a Christian say than this Pagan has said?" |
| 31278 | The question was not, what crimes has the prisoner committed? |
| 31278 | The religious world has been long divided upon this great question: Do we find principles in politics and in science? |
| 31278 | To a friend describing Herder as the one unprofitable classic, he replied,"Did you ever learn anything from Schleiermacher?" |
| 31278 | Was Rome herself tainted with Gallicanism, and in league with those who had conspired for her destruction? |
| 31278 | Welcher Entschluss, ich möchte sagen, welche Unverschämtheit ist es, nach Ihnen und bei Ihren Lebzeiten, Kirchengeschichte in München zu doziren? |
| 31278 | What but a schism could ensue from this inexplicable apathy? |
| 31278 | What is matter? |
| 31278 | Where was their liberality in one case, or their catholicity in the other? |
| 31278 | Why fearest thou when earthly kingdoms fall? |
| 31278 | [ Footnote 181: Crudelitatisne tu esse ac non clementiae potius, pietatisque putas? |
| 31278 | [ Footnote 189: Quo demum res evaderent, si Regibus non esset integrum, in rebelles, subditos, quietisque publicae turbatores animadvertere? |
| 31278 | [ Footnote 204:"Quid hoc ad me? |
| 31278 | [ Footnote 314:"What is well- nigh all Christendom but a sink of iniquity?" |
| 31278 | [ Footnote 387: Quid enim expedit damnare quae damnata jam sunt, quidve juvat errores proscribere quos novimus jam esse proscriptos?... |
| 31278 | but, does he belong to one of those classes whose existence the Republic can not tolerate? |
| 31278 | was in the hands of the Whigs? |
| 31278 | why wait for five months? |
| 7370 | And is it not rather their fault, who put things into such a posture, that they would not have them thought to be as they are? |
| 7370 | And what will become of this paternal power in that part of the world, where one woman hath more than one husband at a time? |
| 7370 | And why then hath not his son, by the same reason, the same liberty, though he be born any where else? |
| 7370 | And will any one say, he had no right to those acorns or apples, he thus appropriated, because he had not the consent of all mankind to make them his? |
| 7370 | Are the people to be blamed, if they have the sense of rational creatures, and can think of things no otherwise than as they find and feel them? |
| 7370 | But farther, this question,( Who shall be judge?) |
| 7370 | But how far has he given it us? |
| 7370 | But if any one should ask, Must the people then always lay themselves open to the cruelty and rage of tyranny? |
| 7370 | For what appearance would there be of any compact? |
| 7370 | Here, it is like, the common question will be made, Who shall be judge, whether the prince or legislative act contrary to their trust? |
| 7370 | I ask then, when did they begin to be his? |
| 7370 | If a subject of England have a child, by an English woman in France, whose subject is he? |
| 7370 | If any body should ask me, when my son is of age to be free? |
| 7370 | If this argument be good; I ask, how came so many lawful monarchies into the world? |
| 7370 | Is a man under the law of England? |
| 7370 | Is a man under the law of nature? |
| 7370 | It is often asked as a mighty objection, where are, or ever were there any men in such a state of nature? |
| 7370 | It will perhaps be demanded, with death? |
| 7370 | May the commands then of a prince be opposed? |
| 7370 | Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicae crudelitati& furori jugulum semper praebebit? |
| 7370 | Should a robber break into my house, and with a dagger at my throat make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? |
| 7370 | This may give one reason to ask, whether this might not be more properly called parental power? |
| 7370 | Though the water running in the fountain be every one''s, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out? |
| 7370 | Was it a robbery thus to assume to himself what belonged to all in common? |
| 7370 | What is my remedy against a robber, that so broke into my house? |
| 7370 | What made him free of that law? |
| 7370 | What made him free of that law? |
| 7370 | What must be done in the case? |
| 7370 | Who can help it, if they, who might avoid it, bring themselves into this suspicion? |
| 7370 | and in whatsoever he doth, whether led by reason, mistake or passion, must be submitted to? |
| 7370 | and where else could this be so well placed as in his hands, who was intrusted with the execution of the laws for the same end? |
| 7370 | and will any one say, that the mother hath a legislative power over her children? |
| 7370 | has not the one of these a right to his thousand acres for ever, and the other, during his life, paying the said rent? |
| 7370 | may he be resisted as often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not right done him? |
| 7370 | or can he take away from either the goods or money they have got upon the said land, at his pleasure? |
| 7370 | or can she inforce the observation of them with capital punishments? |
| 7370 | or when he boiled? |
| 7370 | or when he brought them home? |
| 7370 | or when he eat? |
| 7370 | or when he picked them up? |
| 7370 | that is, to have the liberty to dispose of his actions and possessions according to his own will, within the permission of that law? |
| 7370 | vim vi repellant, seseq; ab injuria, tueantur? |
| 7370 | what condition can he perform? |
| 7370 | what gave him a free disposing of his property, according to his own will, within the compass of that law? |
| 7370 | what new engagement if he were no farther tied by any decrees of the society, than he himself thought fit, and did actually consent to? |
| 7370 | when he digested? |
| 7370 | why will he give up this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and controul of any other power? |