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31369	ARE CELTS AND SAXONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL STOCKS?
31369	ARE THE JEWS A SEPARATE RACE?
31369	But how do new races arise?
31369	Is it a racial antagonism which is elicited when Celt and Saxon are in conflict?
31369	Was it because the Iberian did not possess-- was not influenced by-- a sense of race- caste such as we have seen to dominate the Nordic colonist?
31369	What is the physical difference between a Celt and a Saxon?
31369	What then is a British statesman to do?
31369	Which is Nature''s method?
31369	Why did the racial barrier between Iberian and Indian break down?
20446	Are we a nation of foreign drunkards?
20446	I ask myself, Who drinks this rum?
20446	Native Americans?
20446	Now the question, and a serious one, is, Who are those that come?
20446	Recognized how far?
20446	What are the two great declarations of which England is proud?
20446	What is the term now?
20446	What is there in this charmed circle, in this favored zone, that brings national power?
19597	And do we not, as a nation, contribute something for the physical well- being of every nation in turn?
19597	And whose rights are invaded by this observance of the Christian religion?
19597	Are they not all hastening on the wings of the wind, with their precious burdens, to do the ministries of nations one toward another?
19597	But of society founded upon what basis, working by what agencies, involving what interests, proposing what ends?
19597	Can we, my hearers, conceive of a higher and more horrid contradiction of the whole spirit of our religion than a national war?
19597	Has God so conspicuously favored us that he can not but continue to bless?
19597	Is it a collection of the biographies of individual men?
19597	Is it by self- effort only, put forth from a stimulus self- begotten?
19597	Is it the culture of the national life?
19597	Is not this peculiar beginning prophetic of a glorious consummation?
19597	Is our destiny, then, manifest?
19597	Is our glory inevitable?
19597	Must there not be an outward contact, and a stimulus provoked by such contact?
19597	Must"the sword devour forever?"
19597	Need I, my hearers, deduce and enforce the exhortations of this subject?
19597	O when shall war be recognized in its brutality and fiendishness and hellish horrors?
19597	Or do they not lie upon its surface, and do they not make their own appeal to every patriot''s and Christian''s heart?
19597	Or is not civilization, like the education of the individual, in some measure dependent on the efforts of others?
19597	The Jew''s?
19597	The infidel''s?
19597	What is civilization?
19597	What is history?
19597	What is needed to make our destiny glorious, but just to go on in the way that we have come?
19597	What mean these thousand ships, at all times and in all directions traversing the main?
19597	What now, to begin at the beginning, is the proper idea of a nation?
19597	What shall prevent the flood of population from pouring westward and overflowing these territories?
19597	What shall prevent their utmost and magnificent development?
19597	When shall Christian nations become capable of a Christian transaction?
19597	When shall patriotism separate itself from a proud ambition and a cruel revenge, and become the loving handmaid of a pure philanthropy?
19597	Where is his self- culture?
19597	Who has the right to compel the judge to violate the Sabbath by trying his cause, or the mail- carrier or post master by delivering his letters?
19597	Who would dispense with the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament history, or with Macaulay''s picture of England in 1685 in his English history?]
19597	Yet how is national life cultivated?
4350	Admis enfin, aurai- jo alors, Pour tout esprit, l''esprit de corps?
4350	Again, if there had been an excellent aboriginal civilisation in Australia and America, where, botanists and zoologists, ask, are its vestiges?
4350	Again, in art, who is to settle what is advance and what decline?
4350	And who is to reckon up how much these words mean?
4350	But how do these principles change the philosophy of our politics?
4350	But how far are the strongest nations really the best nations?
4350	But it will be said, What has government by discussion to do with these things?
4350	But now comes the farther question: If fixity is an invariable ingredient in early civilisations, how then did any civilisation become unfixed?
4350	But there is a preliminary difficulty: What is progress, and what is decline?
4350	But what ARE nations?
4350	But what is the problem?
4350	But what then is that solution, or what are the principles which tend towards it?
4350	But what was his mind; how are we to describe that?
4350	But where could the first ages find Romans or a conqueror?
4350	But why is one nation stronger than another?
4350	But-- for that is the present point-- why is there this variable?
4350	Carlyle said, in his graphic way,''The ultimate question between every two human beings is,"Can I kill thee, or canst thou kill me?"''
4350	Do I look like that?
4350	Granted that it is in excess, how can you say, how on earth can anyone say, that government by discussion can in any way cure or diminish, it?
4350	How, then, if it was so beneficial, could they ever lose it?
4350	If these savages did care to cultivate wheat, where is the wild wheat gone which their abandoned culture must have left?
4350	No doubt the deductions may be right; in most writers they are so; but where did the premises come from?
4350	The problem, is, why do men progress?
4350	Unless some kind of abstraction like this is made in the subject the great problem''What causes progress?''
4350	What breaks the human race up into fragments so unlike one another, and yet each in its interior so monotonous?
4350	What can be worse than a life regulated by that sort of obedience, and that sort of imitation?
4350	What is the making of a successful merchant?
4350	Where then, so to say, are the rats and horses of the primitive civilisation?
4350	Who is sure that they are the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, of the matter in hand?
4350	Why have the real fortunes of mankind been so different from the fortunes which we should expect?
4350	Why then is this great contrast?
4350	Why, then, have not the obvious and natural causes of progress( as we should call them) produced those obvious and natural effects?
4350	Will it prevent them, or even mitigate them?
4350	how far is excellence in war a criterion of other excellence?
40766	And I feel tempted to put the same question to our American critics with a slight modification,"What have you done with the Red Indian and the Negro?"
40766	And can a civilization ignore the law of moral health and go on in its endless process of inflation by gorging upon material things?
40766	And can we ever hope that these moral barriers against our race amalgamation will not stand in the way of our political unity?
40766	And now that it_ has_ come into existence, why do you not feel in your heart of hearts a pure feeling of gladness and say that it is good?
40766	And who knows if that day has not already dawned, and the sun not risen, in the Easternmost horizon of Asia?
40766	But can this go on indefinitely?
40766	But has this lust for wealth and power no bounds beyond which is death''s dominion?
40766	But is not this order merely a negative good?
40766	But is this the ideal of man which we can look up to with pride?
40766	But is this the true advice?
40766	But will this federation of steam- boilers supply you with a soul, a soul which has her conscience and her God?
40766	But will you never be called to answer for organizing the instincts of self- aggrandizement of whole peoples into perfection and calling it good?
40766	Can it escape its nemesis for ever?
40766	Can our minds be free from doubt when we rush to the Western market to buy this foreign product in exchange for our own inheritance?
40766	Do we not see signs of this even now?
40766	Has it not been one of the causes that raise the cry on these shores for preparedness to meet one more power of evil with a greater power of injury?
40766	Has not this truth already come home to you now, when this cruel war has driven its claws into the vitals of Europe?
40766	I ask him,"How do you know it?
40766	Is it not for giving people''s life greater opportunities for the freedom of development?
40766	Is the instinct of the West right, where she builds her national welfare behind the barricade of a universal distrust of humanity?"
40766	Is the mere name of freedom so valuable that we should be willing to sacrifice for its sake our moral freedom?
40766	Now let us from our own experience answer the question, What is this Nation?
40766	What is the Nation?
40766	What is to happen to that larger part of the world where fear will have no hand in restraining you?
40766	What should we do if, for any reason, England was driven away?
40766	Why should this be a necessity?
40766	You ask in amazement what has she done to deserve this?
40766	continually producing barrenness of moral insensibility upon a large tract of our living nature?
40766	that machine must be pitted against machine, and nation against nation, in an endless bull- fight of politics?
40766	that of a man to a man?
40766	when her hoard of wealth is bursting into smoke and her humanity is shattered into bits on her battlefields?
10668	Are we fighting in a just cause?
10668	What can you do?
10668	What have you learnt?
10668	What is a nation?
10668	What is the war about?
10668	Again, what is to be the fate of German shipping and German colonies?
10668	And what of our third test of nationhood?
10668	And where will you find him except in Prussia?
10668	And why should there be any difficulty in maintaining a harmonious spirit between Prussia and non- Prussian Germany?
10668	Are we fighting in a just cause?
10668	But can the Khalifate survive such a loss of prestige on the part of the Ottoman dynasty?
10668	But the question at once arises, what are the credentials of these British members?
10668	But what right, it may be asked, has Great Britain to this naval supremacy?
10668	But will the Ottoman Empire be able to survive when shorn of its European possessions, of its Armenian and Arab populations?
10668	By whom will she be superseded?
10668	CAN THE DUAL MONARCHY BE REPLACED?
10668	Can we guarantee to them this freedom?
10668	Can we hope for its revival on a basis of modern democracy, modern nationality, and modern educated public opinion?
10668	Can we not curtail Germany''s war navy, while respecting her mercantile marine?
10668	Can we wonder that there have been wars in the nineteenth century?
10668	Democracy means peace;--can we accept this assumption?
10668	Do you not see the rainbow and the bridge to the Overman?"
10668	Does Britain stand for an Idea?
10668	Does the State, of which it forms a part, exist by its consent, or has it been imposed upon it by some alien authority or nationality?
10668	Does the nationality inhabiting a given country regard the government under which it lives as a true expression of its peculiar genius and will?
10668	For Britain the central problem must inevitably be: What is to be the position of the German Navy if we are successful in this war?
10668	Germany asks,"What do you know?"
10668	Has labour reached its maximum efficiency?
10668	Has n''t it ever struck you what a close parallel there is between Germany and Rome?"
10668	Has not Germany some reason to be jealous?
10668	He is not asked,''What are you?''
10668	How are they to weigh foreign affairs and internal affairs against each other?
10668	How are we to gain these things?
10668	How can Great Britain best use her influence in the cause of human progress and for the welfare of the peoples involved in the war?
10668	How can this be explained?
10668	How can we be sure that the Foreign Office will carry out a policy corresponding to the considered convictions which we as a people have formed?
10668	How is it possible that in a modern, largely industrial community, the representatives of working- class opinion should be regarded as public enemies?
10668	How is this extraordinary position maintained?
10668	IS THERE AN IDEA BEHIND THE WAR?
10668	If so, will she share this with the French in Syria, and will Lebanon be able to preserve its autonomy?
10668	Is Germany, if defeated, to lose territory_ in Europe_?
10668	Is Palestine to become a Jewish land?
10668	Is anything even remotely resembling disarmament to be attained unless that Navy is rendered innocuous?
10668	Is it a territorial unity, or has it been split up into sections by artificial frontiers?
10668	Is it either expedient or necessary to exact the uttermost farthing in the colonial sphere in the event of victory?
10668	Is it not true, in spite of Treitschke, that the great things of earth have been the product of small peoples?
10668	Is it true that we are fighting in the main for the cause of Liberty and Democracy, for progress in Europe and the world at large?
10668	Is it, then, possible, when considering the lines of settlement, to lay down any general principles?
10668	Is there to be an independent Arab power?
10668	J. DOVER WILSON ALFRED E. ZIMMERN and ARTHUR GREENWOOD 1915***** TO The Workers''Educational Association***** When wilt Thou save the people?
10668	Keynes(_ Economic Journal_, September 1914); and articles in the_ New Statesman_ on"Why a Moratorium?"
10668	Lastly, what is to be the fate of Asia Minor?
10668	Might it not have been averted if the peoples of Europe had had more control over the way in which foreign policy was carried on?
10668	O God of mercy, when?
10668	Of what real value were ideals of democratic reform to the peoples dwelling in Italy, Germany, or the Austrian Empire?
10668	Of whom will the outvoted minority consist?
10668	Or was it caused by the ambitions and foolishness of statesmen?
10668	Or will Britain, as the chief Mahommedan power, be obliged to assume a loose protectorate over Arabia and Mesopotamia?
10668	Rapid economic development and a colonial empire-- what was there in these to cause hostility between Germany and Great Britain?
10668	Should we not rather wonder that those wars have not been greater and more numerous?
10668	The first and most urgent is a matter of present decision: What is my duty here and now?
10668	The only real question is, Who is to replace her?
10668	The same paper published two suggestive articles on"Relief or Maintenance?"
10668	The second involves a judgment of past events: Why is it that we are at war?
10668	There is one fairly safe test for a system of education: What do its victims think of it?
10668	To the question,"What right have you to call yourselves a civilised country?"
10668	To whom are they responsible?
10668	Was it to the interest of the world as a whole that Athens and Florence should be crushed?
10668	Was the outbreak of war last August in part occasioned by the desire on the side of the German Government to win over the workers of Germany?
10668	Was this war necessary?
10668	We ask,"What have you done?"
10668	What Law is there but force that can decide the issue between nation and nation?
10668	What are they to do if they approve the internal policy of a Government, but disapprove of its foreign policy, or_ vice versa_?
10668	What are to be our future relations with Germany after the war?
10668	What do German thinkers regard as Germany''s contribution to human progress?
10668	What effect, it will be asked, is the war of 1914 likely to have on the German working- class movement?
10668	What have we, on the British side, to set up against his arguments?
10668	What is that?
10668	What is the conclusion to be drawn from this history?
10668	What is the nature of the responsibility cast upon us at this crisis?
10668	What is there then in the German admiration for culture which involves her in a conflict with British ideals?
10668	What is to be the fate of the German provinces of Austria?
10668	What should be the principles of a just settlement?
10668	What then are the forces which have held Austria- Hungary together under Francis Joseph?
10668	What then is nationality?
10668	What was the purpose of the building of the German Navy?
10668	When those facts are realised, is it for us to cast the first stone?
10668	When will Law take its next extension?
10668	When, for example, the American said,"What about the Jews?"
10668	Who is to decide which is the"more civilised,"which is the fitter to survive?
10668	Whom do they represent?
10668	Why did Bismarck annex Alsace- Lorraine?
10668	Why should Germany and Austria arm against France and Russia when Canada does not arm against the United States?
10668	Why should it be necessary to retain the loyalty of nearly half Germany by what practically amounts to terrorisation?
10668	Why should not the process be carried farther still and Germany become in Europe, nay, in the world, what Prussia is in Germany?
10668	Why should the government of Germany be such an"art"?
10668	Why should we not allow her, together with ourselves,"a place on the Ocean"?
10668	Why should we, more than any other Power, claim one of the elements for our own?
10668	Why was it that, while Italy could not and would not do without Rome, Germany was compelled to surrender Vienna and to exclude Austria?
10668	Why, it is asked, should we trouble ourselves about the preservation of small nationalities at all?
10668	Will it be possible to arrest the process of disintegration even at this stage?
10668	Will it be practicable to create a central authority amid the virtual anarchy of so vast and primitive a country?
10668	Will not Greece attempt to annex Smyrna and at least a portion of its hinterland, or has she not at least as good a title as any other competitor?
10668	Will she continue to maintain this attitude?
10668	Will they repudiate him and restore the Khalifate to some more authentic descendant of the Prophet?
10668	Will this new State have the other attributes of Government-- a Common Legislature and a Common Executive-- as well as a Common Judiciary?
10668	[ 1] But if Italy was not to be a republic, she must be a monarchy, and where could she find a prince to put at the head of her united State?
10668	_ Culture_.--What is the German ideal?
10668	_ The Future of Civilisation_.--What hopes dare we cherish, in this hour of conflict, for the future of civilisation?
10668	and he parried the further question,"What about_ pogroms_?"
10668	and if so, would it be either possible or expedient to compensate her in other directions for such a loss?
10668	but only,''What have you?
10668	the other answered,"Well, what about the negroes?"
10668	what attainments, what knowledge, what capacities, what fortune?''
10668	with another of his own,"What about lynching?"
40461	What is Art?
40461	22 V The Condition of England 26 VI Civilization 30 VII Why was India Lost?
40461	63 XIV How can India become Free?
40461	Am I to blame the English for it or myself?
40461	Am I to dislike a Mahomedan because there are passages in the Koran I do not understand or like?
40461	Am I to kill him, or to fall down at his feet and implore him?
40461	Am I, then, to fight with or kill a Mahomedan in order to save a cow?
40461	And how can those who want to serve only have a party?
40461	And what has been the result?
40461	And what is our condition?
40461	And, if a particular retailer is driven away, will not another take his place?
40461	And, if it has remained a baby after an existence of seven hundred years, when will it outgrow its babyhood?
40461	And, if they have done anything for the country for the sake of money, how shall it be counted as good?
40461	And, where everybody wants rights, who shall give them and to whom?
40461	Are not quacks then, whom we know, better than the doctors who put on an air of humaneness?
40461	Are those who do good entitled to greater payment?
40461	Are we, on that account, wiser than he?
40461	But does every Hindu believe in Ahimsa?
40461	But for the lawyers, who would have shown us the road to independence?
40461	But let us assume that we have to drive away the English by fighting; how is that to be done?
40461	By blaming the seller shall I be able to avoid the habit?
40461	CHAPTER III DISCONTENT AND UNREST READER: Then you consider Partition to be a cause of the awakening?
40461	CHAPTER IV WHAT IS SWARAJ?
40461	CHAPTER VII WHY WAS INDIA LOST?
40461	CHAPTER XIII WHAT IS TRUE CIVILIZATION?
40461	CHAPTER XIV HOW CAN INDIA BECOME FREE?
40461	CHAPTER XVII PASSIVE RESISTANCE READER: Is there any historical evidence as to the success of what you have called soul- force or truth- force?
40461	Did they, by using brute- force, better appreciate their duty?
40461	Do people become enemies because they change their religion?
40461	Do you believe that a coward can ever disobey a law that he dislikes?
40461	Do you consider these also symbols of the civilization that you have described?
40461	Do you not tremble to think of freeing India by assassination?
40461	Do you think that it is necessary to drive away the English, if we get all we want?
40461	Do you think that it would be possible for the English to carry on their government without law- courts?
40461	Do you welcome the unrest which has resulted from it?
40461	Do you wish to make him discontented with his cottage or his lot?
40461	Doctors 60 XIII What is True Civilization?
40461	EDITOR: If they do not take our money away, become gentle, and give us responsible posts, would you still consider their presence to be harmful?
40461	EDITOR: Supposing we get self- government similar to what the Canadians and the South Africans have, will it be good enough?
40461	EDITOR: Who is the nation?
40461	Has the introduction of Mahomedanism not unmade the nation?
40461	Have cannons never been used in India?
40461	Have you ever visited our fields?
40461	How can India be one nation?
40461	How can Manchester be blamed?
40461	How can the English people tolerate Home Rule for us?
40461	How can the same be said of Professor Gokhale?
40461	How can they be one nation?
40461	How do these diseases arise?
40461	How shall a third party distribute justice amongst them?
40461	How, then, can it be considered only a weapon of the weak?
40461	How, then, can there be any inborn enmity?
40461	If I am in the habit of drinking Bhang and a seller thereof sells it to me, am I to blame him or myself?
40461	If among a band of robbers, a knowledge of robbing is obligatory, is a pious man to accept the obligation?
40461	If civilization is a disease, and if it has attacked England why has she been able to take India, and why is she able to retain it?
40461	If that be so, we have to consider only one thing: how can the millions obtain self- rule?
40461	If the government were to ask us to go about without any clothing, should we do so?
40461	If two brothers want to live in peace is it possible for a third party to separate them?
40461	If you had not received higher education, how would you have been able to explain to me the things that you have?
40461	In what way are they more profitable to the country than the labourers?
40461	In what way have I benefitted myself or those around me?
40461	Is Dadabhai less to be honoured because, in the exuberance of youth, we are prepared to go a step further?
40461	Is all this effort then of no use?
40461	Is it any the less so if I ask a third party to decide between you and me?
40461	Is it not a sad commentary that we should have to speak of Home Rule in a foreign tongue?
40461	Is it not a sign of slavery?
40461	Is it not then useless to blame the English for what we did at that time?
40461	Is not this absolutely absurd?
40461	Is the God of the Mahomedan different from the God of the Hindu?
40461	Lastly, if it be true that the Hindus believe in the doctrine of non- killing and the Mahomedans do not, what, I pray, is the duty of the former?
40461	Moreover, how many Indians were there like Professor Gokhale, when he gave himself to Indian education?
40461	PAGE I The Congress and Its Officials 11 II The Partition of Bengal 18 III The Discontent and Unrest 21 IV What is Swaraj?
40461	READER: Are the mills, then, to be closed down?
40461	READER: Are we, then, to follow him in every respect?
40461	READER: But what about the inborn enmity between Hindus and Mahomedans?
40461	READER: But will the English ever allow the two bodies to join hands?
40461	READER: Do I then understand that you do not consider English education necessary for obtaining Home Rule?
40461	READER: Do you suggest any other striking result?
40461	READER: Do you then consider that a desire for Home Rule has been created among us?
40461	READER: How can you say that?
40461	READER: How so?
40461	READER: If Indian civilization is, as you say, the best of all, how do you account for India''s slavery?
40461	READER: It is a good point or a bad one that all you are saying will be printed through machinery?
40461	READER: Then what education shall we give?
40461	READER: Then you are really attacking the very men whom we have hitherto considered to be patriotic and honest?
40461	READER: Then you will contend that the Pax Britannica is a useless encumbrance?
40461	READER: Then you will say that it is not at all necessary for us to train the body?
40461	READER: To what do you ascribe this state of England?
40461	READER: What is the other form of unrest?
40461	READER: What may that be?
40461	READER: What will you say to the nation?
40461	READER: What, in your opinion, are the results of Partition?
40461	READER: What, then, of the tram- cars and electricity?
40461	READER: What, then, would you say to both the parties?
40461	READER: What, then, would you say to the English?
40461	READER: Why do we not know this generally?
40461	READER: Will you not admit that you are arguing against yourself?
40461	READER: Will you now tell me how they are able to retain India?
40461	Several questions arise: How is one to carry one''s wife with one?
40461	Shall I think of the means when I have to deal with a thief in the house?
40461	Should we not remember that many Hindus and Mahomedans own the same ancestors, and the same blood runs through their veins?
40461	Surely, what is given will not be withdrawn?
40461	What am I to do when a blood- brother is on the point of killing a cow?
40461	What are her rights, and such other questions?
40461	What are you to do?
40461	What did India do before these articles were introduced?
40461	What do you propose to do by giving him a knowledge of letters?
40461	What do you really do to the child?
40461	What do you think?
40461	What does it matter if he can not run with us?
40461	What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal?
40461	What does it matter that, to- day, his trust is still in the English nation?
40461	What does it matter what means they adopted?
40461	What enables you to tell all these things to me?
40461	What has he whom you consider to be the father of the nation done for it?
40461	What is the meaning of education?
40461	What more need I say?
40461	What must be the condition of the people whose newspapers are of this type?
40461	What need, then, to speak of matches, pins, and glassware?
40461	What of that?
40461	What substantial gain did Italy obtain after the withdrawal of the Austrian troops?
40461	What will you do then?
40461	What, then, holding the views you do, would you suggest for freeing India?
40461	What, then, is civilization?
40461	When and how did the awakening take place?
40461	When will all carry it out?
40461	Wherein is courage required-- in blowing others to pieces from behind a cannon or with a smiling face to approach a cannon and to be blown to pieces?
40461	Wherein is the cause for quarrelling?
40461	Who assisted the Company''s officers?
40461	Who bought their goods?
40461	Who is the true warrior-- he who keeps death always as a bosom- friend or he who controls the death of others?
40461	Who made it Bahadur?
40461	Who protects the cow from destruction by Hindus when they cruelly ill- treat her?
40461	Who was tempted at the sight of their silver?
40461	Who would have protected the poor?
40461	Who would have secured justice?
40461	Whoever reasons with the Hindus when they mercilessly belabour the progeny of the cow with their sticks?
40461	Whom do you suppose to free by assassination?
40461	Why are their requirements greater?
40461	Why do they not take the fullest advantage of the railways?
40461	Why do they want more fees than common labourers?
40461	Why do they, then, talk about obeying laws?
40461	Why do you forget that our adoption of their civilization makes their presence in India at all possible?
40461	Why do you want to drive away the English?
40461	Why have I learned these things?
40461	Why should the Hindus oppose this?
40461	Why should we not obtain our goal which is good, by any means whatsoever even by using violence?
40461	Why, then, may we not do so by using brute- force?
40461	Why, then, should I listen to your discourse on such people?
40461	Will you add an inch to his happiness?
40461	Will you explain your views in this matter?
40461	Will you now explain the epithet"prostitute"?
40461	Will you still say that means do not matter?
40461	Yet what awaits them on their return to the hovels which they call home?
40461	You will not find fault with a continuance of force to prevent a child from thrusting its foot into fire?
40461	You, however, drag in these doctors also, how is that?