Questions

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

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37109	Are n''t there things{ 18} called umbrellas, which you pampered civilians carry about in showers?"
37109	We can not avoid forming habits and the question is, shall we form good or bad habits?
37109	When a physician asks a patient, especially if the patient is over forty years of age,"Have you ever suffered from rheumatism?"
31747	Are they as fully and distinctly recollected?
31747	Have the dwellings of the beaver, and the construction of the honey- comb, their solution in the geometrical attainments of the fabricators?
31747	Thus truncated, how would the fleet have been constructed which reaped the laurel at the Nile, at Copenhagen, and Trafalgar?
31747	We might next inquire, if the odours we perceive are as strongly impressed on the olfactory organ, as the subjects of visual perception on the eye?
31747	and are they capable by themselves of affording the materials for thought or reflection?
22108	And must they bear the crash of steel on stone, the infernal clatter of traffic?
22108	But do we want great conceptions all the time?
22108	Cruel, bloodthirsty?
22108	Did he produce the complex animal chemistry that makes this cure possible?
22108	Did man make the horse, or the laws that control the physiology and pathology of that animal?
22108	Do the long columns of figures, the impressive statistics, wake men to activity?
22108	Does any one suppose that Beethoven attained his whole heart''s desire in his music?
22108	Does it not mean that man is tapping sources of power far beyond his understanding?
22108	Has the healing of Christ again become possible on earth?
22108	How are we to live the larger life?
22108	Is man responsible save as the agent?
22108	Many men will say,"Why mix the two?
22108	What is it but the revelations of a God in the world?
22108	What is that view from your window as you lie in your bed?
22108	What is the discovery that the serum of a horse will under certain circumstances cure diphtheria?
22108	What is this final justification?
22108	What is this knowledge that the world is seeking, but can never find?
22108	What of that refinement of hearing that detects the least departure from the rhythm and pitch in complex orchestral music?
22108	What of those fine ears tuned to the most exquisite appreciation of sweet sound?
22108	What will such people do in our clanging streets?
22108	Why not let the preachers and the philosophers preach and the doctors follow their own ways?"
22108	Why should we act as though everything depended upon our efforts, even the changing seasons and the blowing winds?
4338	But where is the guest? 4338 Drop it?
4338	Now, Margaret, could you worry about your Latin if you tried?
4338	Where is the guest whose birthday it is?
4338	And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother''s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4338	At this suggestion the speaker looked up with surprise and said:"Why, is that in the New Testament?
4338	But the reader will say,"How can I make myself willing when I am not willing?"
4338	How can you expect me to think of dropping it with pain like this?
4338	How could I do differently?"
4338	How could we free ourselves from it without knowing that it was there?
4338	If I can not look at my selfish motives, how am I going to get free from them?
4338	Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
4338	So many people prefer a difficult problem in geometry to an easy one, then why not in life?
4338	The reader will say:"How can I be willing that the noise should go on when I am not willing?"
4338	Where is the man whose birthday it is?"
4338	Where, in what part of it?"
4338	Why do n''t you ask me to burn myself, on a piece of ice, or freeze myself with a red- hot poker?"
4338	Why should I resist the idea of catching a train, when at the same time I am most anxious to do so?
4338	Why should my muscles reflect that resistance by contracting, so that they directly impede my progress?
4338	a mother may say,"should I want my child to be naughty?
4385	But,it may be objected,"why make all this fuss, why take so much thought about what I eat or what I do not eat?"
4385	But,it will be objected,"how can I say I am willing when I am not?"
4385	But,some one will say,"how are we to know what is real and what is not?
4385	What makes him stand like that?
4385	And if, in the excitement of feeling, the mistake was exaggerated, what is that to us?
4385	And, yet, is not the want of a true sense of proportion in the circumstances and relations of life quite as extreme with many of us?
4385	Are we not quite as bad in hitting back?
4385	But did he?
4385	But who ever saved a soul through an ungracious intolerance of that soul''s chosen way of believing or living?
4385	Did no one ever take into account the possibility of our eyes being blinded just because they had been exposed to the dust longer?
4385	How can we ever gain freedom whilst we are entangled in the contractions of intolerance?
4385	How do we know what roused him?
4385	If a man loses his temper and rouses us to a return attack, how can we blame him?
4385	Then why do you not take every means to get well, instead of indulging first in the very process that will most tend to keep you ill?"
4385	What shall we call the man who is constantly analyzing his moral state?
4385	Which would be the more broadening process on the whole, or the more delightful?
4385	Who wants to carry about a mass of personal prejudices when he can replace them by the warm, healthy feeling of sympathetic friendship?
4385	Why have we been so long in realizing the practical, I might say the physiological, truth of this great philosophy?
4385	Why should we hold the brain- impression of his mistake, so that every time we look at him we make it stronger?
4385	Yet, to begin at the beginning, who ever feels the necessity of treating a baby with respect?
4337	Again the nervous movement began, but this time the child exclaimed,"Why, is n''t it funny?
4337	And must he not be already surprised and shocked at the precocious growth of the infant monster which he found and named?
4337	As well might we ask of the wisest clergyman in the land, Do his truths_ never_ fail him?
4337	But will not the discovery of all this superfluous tension make one self- conscious?
4337	But-- it will be objected-- is not the very effort of the brain to relax the tension a nervous strain?
4337	Can we not open our throats and become as these little children?
4337	Can we wonder that the German doctor thought he had discovered a new disease?
4337	Could a power of control sufficient to apply to its every detail be fully acquired at once, or even in a life- time?
4337	Could anything be more free, more like the song of a bird in its obedience to natural laws?
4337	Do they not say, not there has been a great_ effort_ here, but there has been a great power here?"
4337	First, let us consider, When should the body be completely at rest?
4337	Has man the privilege of disobeying natural laws, only in the use of his own individual powers?
4337	How can we expect repose of mind when we have not even repose of muscle?
4337	Is he_ always_ held in harmony and nobility by their power?
4337	Is not the economy of our vital forces of much greater importance than mechanical or business economy?
4337	OTHER FORMS OF REST DO you hold yourself on the chair, or does the chair hold you?
4337	REST IN SLEEP HOW do we misuse our nervous force?
4337	Ruskin tells the story with his own expressive power when he says,"Are not the elements of ease on the face of all the greatest works of creation?
4337	TRAINING FOR REST BUT how shall we gain a natural repose?
4337	The remark when the extended limb is brought to the attention of its owner is,"Well, what did you want me to do?
4337	Then are students and teachers of these laws never ill, never run down,"nervous,"or prostrated?
4337	When shall I have finished learning?"
4337	Where is the good of an exquisitely formed machine, if it is to be shattered for want of control of the motive power?
4337	Where is the use of all the quieting medicines, if we only quiet our nerves in order that we may continue to misuse them without their crying out?
4337	Who knows the new perception and strength, the increased power for use that is open to us if we will but cease to be an obstruction?
4337	Why does it tire you?
4337	Why should we know, unless through knowing we can give you some relief?
36849	Answer this question,"Am I pleasant to live with?"
36849	Are YOU pleasant to live with?
36849	Are you getting the best out of yourself?
36849	Are you growing, or are you standing still?
36849	Can you face disagreeable facts without wavering?
36849	Can you meet adversity with courage in your heart and a smile on your lips?
36849	Come on, Dad, what do you say?
36849	Did you lie to, steal from, cheat or defraud any one?
36849	Do n''t you know that there is no one in the world who can take the place of Dad?
36849	Do n''t you see how we love you and how we appreciate you?
36849	Do you sing on Sunday,"We shall know each other there,"or do you make it a point to know and love your brother here, seven days a week?
36849	Does it show profit or loss?
36849	Have you drawn the employees closer, or have you driven them further from you?
36849	How do you stand in your treatment of them?
36849	How have you dealt with your family and children?
36849	How many stars are there?
36849	How much cash profit did you make?
36849	How much less a man did the act make you?
36849	How often have you been convinced in an argument?
36849	How often have you convinced another in an argument?
36849	I am often asked:"Are you happy ALL the time?"
36849	If the Protestant religion be all truth, what became of our religious ancestors who died before Martin Luther found the truth?
36849	Is n''t it reasonable then to conclude that if a man should fail to eat enough lime for his body- building, his bones would suffer?
36849	Is n''t it reasonable to suppose that this is because they work hard?
36849	Is your religious belief a sham or a conviction?
36849	It wo n''t hurt you to keep the personal question alive for a few days,--"Am I pleasant to live with?"
36849	Or are you plodding along aimlessly, scattering your energy in a haphazard, hit- or- miss fashion that benefits nobody?
36849	Well, then, where''s the moral?
36849	What about the people who have gone hence before Christian Science was ever heard of?
36849	What do you think about it?
36849	What has your stewardship shown?
36849	What''s that?
36849	What''s the benefit from this little study of the street car passengers?
36849	Why, then, such a change in two hours?
36849	You have never heard of Verbomania?
36849	You''ve heard that, have n''t you?
14196	''Tis folly to fight, we both lose by battle; whose is the gain?
14196	How about her fitness for marriage?
14196	How do people get along who get less than we do?
14196	Is it the best I can do?
14196	Should I rest now; have I the right to rest?
14196	What right has a poor woman anyway to desires above her station, and why does not she resign herself to her lot?
14196	Where does it all go?
14196	And who sets the pace for her, for all of her group; who establishes the standard of expenditure?
14196	But we are concerned with these questions:"What happens to her in marriage?"
14196	Can one purge a woman of futile longings and strivings, rid her of natural fears and even of absurd fears?
14196	Can the home be altered to bring in more of the social spirit and yet maintain its great virtues, its extraordinary attraction for the human heart?
14196	Did the housewife of a past generation go through the same stage?
14196	Discreditable to those women who use it?
14196	Discreditable to women?
14196	Does a strenuous existence make against easy motherhood?
14196	Here the question arises: Is there room in our society for matrimony and a business career?
14196	How avert such a thing?
14196	How does this apply to the nervous housewife?
14196	How often is it closely approximated?
14196	Is the average man''s impression the correct one?
14196	Is the increasing incidence of divorce a revolt against domesticity?
14196	Is the maternal instinct waning in intensity in this period of feminization?
14196	Is the modern woman more susceptible to the effects of pregnancy,--less resistant to the strain of childbearing and childbirth?
14196	Is there a subconsciousness, and what is it?
14196	Men in comfortable places cry"Why worry?"
14196	Of what use is it to raise taste when this is injured at the very outset of life by giving bad taste a fascinating attraction?
14196	Of what use is it to teach children good English when the newspaper deliberately teaches them the cheapest slang?
14196	Of what use is it to teach them manners and kindliness when the newspaper constantly spreads boorishness and"rough house"conduct?
14196	Or are we dealing with the incorrigible disposition of man to glorify the past?
14196	Repair of the parts immediately is indicated, but in what percentage of cases is this done?
14196	Second-- Is it labor saving?
14196	Shall it be the nowadays emphasized moral suasion, the appeal to conscience and reason?
14196	Shall it be the old- fashioned corporal punishment of a past generation, the appeal to pain and blame?
14196	She came out of her dereliction dazed; could it be she who had done this, who had descended into the vilest degradation?
14196	She was no longer dissatisfied, no longer eager for romance; but could she live with him if she had been unfaithful?
14196	Should a man knowingly marry such a woman?
14196	The first question asked about a woman is,"Is she pretty?"
14196	The tests by which the good household device ought to be judged are these: First-- Is it efficient?
14196	The woman wonders whether her husband will long be able to keep up,--and then"what will become of us?"
14196	There have always been some bad, careless, selfish mothers; has their number increased?
14196	Third-- Is it time saving?
14196	This has been done so often and so effectively(?)
14196	What are the causes of the change?
14196	What are the chief sources of conflict?
14196	What are the difficulties confronting the partners which impede happiness and especially which bring the neurosis of the housewife?
14196	What are these phases that are attended with difficulty?
14196	What can emotion produce that is pathological, detrimental to well- being?
14196	What part does a subconscious personality take in all this and in further symptoms?
14196	What system will do that?
14196	What will she do with her time; what will the better- to- do woman do?
14196	Why is this?
14196	is his cry;"Must we spend as much as we do?"
4339	And waited twenty minutes for your dessert?
4339	And you have had your first course?
4339	But,I hear a hundred women say,"it gets on our nerves; how can we help its getting on our nerves?"
4339	But,again I hear,"if I think about my work, why is n''t that using my brain in the same direction?"
4339	But,some one says,"may I not feel pressed for time when I have more to do than I can possibly put into the time before me?"
4339	But,some one will say,"why should I stop and do nothing when I am as busy as I can be all day long, and have my time very happily full?"
4339	But,you will say,"can every one eat everything?"
4339	Did you feel comfortable after it?
4339	Did you want to get over the anger?
4339	How can I be well,they say,"when I suffer just as I did while I was ill?"
4339	How can I ever amount to anything with such inheritances? 4339 How can that be when you came in at twelve o''clock, and it is now only ten minutes past?"
4339	I do not want to suffer like this,I hear an invalid say;"if it were merely a habit do n''t you think I would throw it off in a minute?"
4339	If he does not like it why does he do it?
4339	It is nothing but drudge, drudge for your bread and butter-- and what does your bread and butter amount to when you get it?
4339	WHY DOES MRS. SMITH GET ON MY NERVES?
4339	WHY FUSS SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT I EAT?
4339	Well, why should he be annoyed? 4339 What time did you come in?"
4339	Why do n''t you take a vacation today?
4339	Why does n''t my husband like to stay with me when he comes home? 4339 Yes,"the answer was;"what under the sun is she doing that for?
4339	( 2)"Do I drop my work at meals and eat quietly?"
4339	( 3)"Do I take every opportunity that I can to get fresh air, and take good, full breaths of it?"
4339	( 4)"Do I feel hurried and pushed in my work?
4339	( 5)"How much superfluous strain do I use in my work?
4339	Add dust of her own by scolding and fretting and fuming over the noise that the children are making?
4339	After breakfast the mother with a little roguish twinkle, said:"Well, what do you think you will do to amuse yourself to- day, Alice?"
4339	Almost the moment the doctor entered the sick room, he was accosted with:"Doctor, do you know what made me ill?
4339	And do n''t you remember the result?"
4339	And how''The Maltese Cat''scouted the silly ponies who held their heads up and kicked and looked alert while they waited?
4339	And what does such"rest"amount to?
4339	And what sense is there in that?
4339	And when you answer,"How can any one love you when you are always whining and complaining?
4339	Bobby, do you remember how you snapped at your brother yesterday, when he accidentally knocked your house over?"
4339	But her friend answered:"Why, of course you could not expect them to agree right away, could you?
4339	But what if she discover to her surprise and chagrin that she is a nervous talker?
4339	But what is one to do when a friend can only be reached by the"contrary method"?
4339	But where could you find greater and more abject childishness than in a woman''s ungoverned emotions?
4339	But why not let Mrs. So- and- so rock?
4339	But you say:"Wo n''t you allow for difference of tastes?"
4339	CHAPTER XVI_"Why Fuss so Much About What I Eat?
4339	CHAPTER XXIII_ Do not Hurry_ HOW can any one do anything well while in a constant state of rush?
4339	CHAPTER XXVII_ Positive and Negative Effort_ DID you ever have the grip?
4339	CHAPTER X_ Is Physical Culture good for Girls?_ A NUMBER of women were watching a game of basket- ball played by some high- school girls.
4339	Did she go to gymnasium, or did she scorn it?
4339	Did you ever see a tired, hungry baby fight his food?
4339	Did you ever try to clench your fist so tight that it could not be opened?
4339	Do I realize that no matter how much of a hurry there may be, I can hurry more effectively if I drop the strain of the hurry?"
4339	Do I work with a feeling of strain?
4339	Do you suppose I like Uncle James''s irritability any better than you do?"
4339	For instance, it is only a fact of plain common sense that we should keep rested, and yet how many of us do?
4339	How are our contrary- minded friends to be met if we can not pretend we do not want what we do want in order to get their cooperation and consent?
4339	How can I observe better in order to become conscious of the strain and drop it?"
4339	How can any one be kind to you when you resent and resist every friendly attention because it does not suit your especial taste?
4339	How can any one expect to keep healthy and strong while in a constant state of rush?
4339	How can any one see anything clearly while in a constant state of rush?
4339	How could she do otherwise with that strain in her?
4339	How is it possible for us to get any clear, all- round view of life so long as the dust stirring habit is on us?
4339	How is it possible with all I have to do?
4339	How many of us, I wonder, have what might be called a quiet working brain?
4339	How much shall I eat?
4339	How often in hearing it we make the mental question,"Do you understand yourself?"
4339	How often shall I eat?
4339	How shall I eat?"
4339	I answer:"Why should she be annoyed?
4339	I wonder how long it will be before mamma, too, is in the ditch?"
4339	IS PHYSICAL CULTURE GOOD FOR GIRLS?
4339	In the first place,_ do not fret._"But how can I help fretting?"
4339	In the interim for rest one woman said to her neighbor:"Do you see that girl flat on her back, looking like a very heavy bag of sand?"
4339	In the morning the mother felt a little anxious and asked timidly:"Do you believe you can make it work again today, just as well as yesterday?"
4339	Indeed, how can you expect anything from any one when you are giving nothing yourself?"
4339	Is not that true?
4339	Now that is just the point-- the answer to that question,"How is it possible?"
4339	Now, could there be anything more absurd than that?
4339	Oh, why am I so nervous?"
4339	Or some one else may say,"How can I stop and do nothing when I am nearly crazy with work and must feel that it is being accomplished?"
4339	Or that"Nature abhors a vacuum, and how is it possible to do nothing?
4339	Or would it not be even funnier if we made the pinch merely a reminder to go on with the habit?
4339	That being the case, what can you expect of a woman who is a nervous talker?
4339	The daughter got a little irritated and snapped out:---"Why do you say such a foolish thing as that, Mother?
4339	The over- emphasis of"What shall I eat?
4339	Then she said:"Now look here, boys, do you suppose that Uncle James likes his snapping any better than we do?"
4339	Think about it, madam?
4339	This, then, is the first answer to any woman''s question,"Why am I so nervous?"
4339	WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES ME SO NERVOUS?
4339	Was she well developed and evenly trained in her muscles?
4339	We may think we believe all sorts of beautiful truths, but how can any truth be really ours unless we have proved it by living?
4339	What does the wise mother do?
4339	What enlightenment do we get from it?
4339	What is one to do when if, for instance, you want a friend to read a book, you know that the way to prevent his reading it is to mention your desire?
4339	What is the remedy for that?
4339	What shall I do to get all I can out of it?
4339	What strength does it bring us?
4339	When a woman disobeys all the laws of nervous health how can she expect not to have her nerves rebel?
4339	When shall I eat?
4339	When this woman told me later what it was that had taken away her appetite she added:"And is n''t it absurd?
4339	Who cares for a game that is simple and easy?
4339	Who cares for a game when you beat as a matter of course, and without any effort on your part at all?
4339	Who could be expected to believe it?
4339	Why ca n''t we have nice, cozy times together?"
4339	Why could n''t she have taken care of herself?"
4339	Why do n''t they sympathize?"
4339	Why does not some kind soul start concerts for the people where, for a nominal admission, the best music can be heard?
4339	Why need it touch us at all?
4339	Why not wake up, and realize that same interest and courage in this biggest game of all-- this game of life?
4339	Why should n''t Mrs. Smith eat sugar on baked beans?
4339	Why should n''t she be annoyed?"
4339	Why should we not be willing to have them different?
4339	Will her annoyance stop Mrs. Smith''s eating sugar on baked beans?
4339	Will it ever come?
4339	Will she in any way-- selfish or otherwise-- be the gainer for her annoyance?
4339	Would you not perhaps feel a little sore that he seemed to expect all from you and to give nothing in return?
4339	or with all I have to worry me?"
4339	or with all the care I have?
4339	someone will say,"when I am losing money every day, and do not know how many more days I may be laid up?"