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38148	Does the valley find the stream or the stream the valley?
38148	How are they acquired?
18562	The question now arises, What becomes of the matter which has been broken up by the wave action?
18562	Why does the sun not behave in the same manner as the moon?
6019	Are the birds thus attracted by new lights, flocks in migration?
6019	Is this drought due to the destruction of ancient forests or to some other cause?
3066	Why?
3066	But where did man make the change from a four- handed, tree- dwelling little ape to a much larger, upright creature with two hands and two feet?
3066	Is there one chance in a thousand that even his indomitable spirit could have kept his craft headed steadily into the west?
3066	River and plain and mighty peak-- and who could stand unawed?
3066	Was there once a bridge of land from Asia to America in this region?
3066	What''s the matter?"
3066	Why does the American Indian differ from the Negro, and the European from both?
3066	Why were not the most advanced Indian tribes found in the same places where white civilization is today most advanced?
3066	Why, then, did the energizing effect of climate apparently have less effect upon them than upon the other great races?
22302	Are there any upon the Atlantic coast or neighboring highlands?
22302	But what becomes of all this mud?
22302	Does the Grand Cañon look as you thought it would?
22302	How could a river cut a channel for itself so far below the ocean level?
22302	How is the water to be sent over the land?
22302	How many of us living at the present time have ever seen one of these animals in its native haunts?
22302	What do you think would happen if such an underground stream of water came in contact with hot or molten rocks far below the surface?
22302	What excuse is there for the wanton destruction of a noble tree like this one?
22302	What is the use of all this work?
22302	Where are the springs and running streams which usually abound in mountainous regions?
22302	Where shall we go to find these volcanoes?
22302	Why did not Astoria or Fort Vancouver develop into the metropolis of the Columbia basin?
22302	Why is the lake receding now?
22302	Why not wait for the rains to come and wet the earth, as the farmer does in the eastern United States?
37957	What if,says Dumont,"instead of happening in October, that is between harvest and seedtime, they had occurred before the crops were secured?
37957	And why, indeed, should he wish to marry, when he could scarcely save enough to maintain himself?
37957	For the rest, if Pope is dethroned what remains?
37957	How was it beaten smaller and ever smaller by the waves?
37957	If we represent the power of calcareous sand to retain heat by 100, we have, according to Schubler, For[ silicious?]
37957	Is the great power of accomodation to climate possessed by them due to this circumstance?
37957	This subject has been discussed by Perris in the_ Annales de la Société Entomologique de la France_, for 1851(?
37957	To what was it once fixed?
37957	What power broke it loose?
37957	When will the world be wise enough to unite in adopting the French metrical and monetary systems?
37957	Whence come the sudden floods of our rivers?
37957	Where was the original quartz crystal, of which this is a fragment, first formed?
37957	Who can wonder at the hostility of the French plebeian classes toward the aristocracy in the days of the Revolution?
37957	Why is a crop near the borders of a marsh cut off by frost, while a field upon a hillock, a few stone''s throws from it, is spared?"
37957	Why should not so easy a method of economizing fuel be resorted to in Italy, and even in more northerly climates?
37957	Will not this fact exert an influence on the condition of many springs, whose basin of supply thus undergoes a partial or complete transformation?
37957	[ 28] What is there, in the influence of brute life, that corresponds to this?
14565	17th of July( 17th to the 26th of July?).
14565	Are these currents, as in Seebeck''s experiments, thermo- magnetic, and excited directly from unequal distribution of heat?
14565	But whence comes this form, which was first recognized by Schreiber as characteristic of the''severed''part of a rotating planetary body?
14565	Dare we hazard a conjecture on that which can not be an object of actual geognostic observation?
14565	Do gaseous fluids rise from the interior of the earth, and mix with the atmosphere?
14565	Indeed how can any facts of one observer in one place falsify the facts of another observer in another place?
14565	Must not these lie in deep valleys?
14565	Must we suppose that changes are actually in progress in the nebulous ring?
14565	On what did these so- called''most ancient''formations rest, if gneiss and mica schist must be regarded as changed sedimentary strata?
14565	When the questions are asked, what is it that burns in the volcano?
14565	Where, in this case, are we to seek the concealed channels by which the Plutonic action is conveyed?
14565	Why should the crust of the Earth have lost its property of being elevated in the ridges?
14565	and how much the mean annual temperature of Canada and the United States is lower than that of corresponding latitudes in Europe?
14565	multo clarius apparet, non tam reparandorum animalium causa, quam figurandarum variarum gentium(?)
14565	or are these meteorological processes the action of atmospheric electricity disturbed by the earthquake?
14565	or should we not rather regard them as induced by the position of the Sun and by solar heat?
14565	what excites the heat, fuses together earths and metals, and imparts to lava currents of thick layers a degree of heat that lasts for many years?
28274	What more,said Hutton long ago,"is required to explain the configuration of our mountains and valleys?
28274	''"[ 3] Is my life vulgar, my fate mean, Which on such golden memories can lean?
28274	; while Ennerdale Water lies nearly E. by W. Can we account in any way, and if so how, for these varied directions?
28274	But is this necessarily so?
28274	But what is the love of Nature?
28274	But why should flowers sleep?
28274	But why should the rivers, after running for a certain distance in the direction of the main axis, so often break away into lateral valleys?
28274	But why should we sleep?
28274	Does it result from some innate tendency in each species?
28274	How has this come to pass?
28274	In this case, therefore, there was one, and there are now two exactly similar; but are these two individuals?
28274	Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man?
28274	Is this love of Nature?
28274	It is not any part of the process that will be disputed; but, after allowing all the parts, the whole will be denied; and for what?
28274	Now, why has the flower this peculiar form?
28274	Of what use is the fringe of hairs?
28274	Oh wind, If winter comes, can spring be long behind?
28274	Or has the form and size and texture some reference to the structure and organisation, the habits and requirements of the whole plant?
28274	Since, then, there is so much complex structure in a single leaf, what must it be in a whole plant?
28274	The Rabbit is said to reach 10 years, the Dog and Sheep 10- 12, the Pig 20, the Horse 30, the Camel 100, the Elephant 200, the Greenland Whale 400(?
28274	To what then are lakes due?
28274	What advantage is the honey to the flower?
28274	What is the Sun made of?
28274	What is the use of the arch?
28274	What lesson do the little teeth teach us?
28274	What regulates the length of the tube?
28274	What, then, has that history been?
28274	What, then, is the use and purpose of this complex organisation?
28274	Whence comes the breath which you draw; the light by which you perform the actions of your life?
28274	Who is there who has not watched them with admiration?
28274	Why does the stigma project beyond the anthers?
28274	Why have deserts replaced cities?
28274	Why have not the still more level, the greener and more fertile pampas, which are serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression?
28274	Why is the corolla white, while the rest of the plant is green?
28274	Why is there this melancholy change?
28274	Why should I exchange you, even for the sight of all the Alps?"
28274	Why should flowers do so?
28274	Why should some flowers do so, and not others?
28274	Why then this marvellous variety?
28274	Why then-- and the case is not peculiar to myself-- have these arid wastes taken so firm possession of my mind?
28274	or how shall we follow its eternal cheerfulness of feeling?
28274	the blood by which your life is maintained?
28274	the blood by which your life is maintained?
28274	the meat by which your hunger is appeased?...
28274	the meat by which your hunger is appeased?...
28274	this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms?
47119	Why,he asks,"did not this mineral matter come down in like quantity all the time of the deposit of the brown clay which underlies it?
47119	; Alpine{ Lands(?
47119	And how, we may ask, could the postulated geographical changes bring about the glaciation of the mountainous tracts on the Pacific sea- board?
47119	And if they did not sail eastwards, what became of them?
47119	And what about the second glacial epoch?
47119	And what evidence of such local glaciation might we now expect to find?
47119	And who will take his place in the Long Island?
47119	Are we then to suppose that all the lands within the Northern Hemisphere were extensively and contemporaneously upheaved?
47119	Are we to infer the former existence of an extremely lofty range of Bohemian Alps which has since vanished?
47119	Are we to suppose that once more the lands were greatly uplifted, and that convenient Isthmus of Panama was again depressed?
47119	Are we to suppose, then, that it flowed in from the south or south- west?
47119	Are we, then, prepared to admit that the close of the Ice Age coincided with the dawn of Egyptian civilisation?
47119	At what horizon, then, does this steppe- fauna make its appearance?
47119	But how could this be, seeing that the Criffel and Cumbrian erratics occur side by side in one and the same deposit?
47119	But putting that consideration aside, what evidence have we that the Isthmus of Panama was submerged during the glacial epoch?
47119	But why should this wind have propelled the floating- ice so far and no further in an easterly direction?
47119	Can a big ice- sheet push down the earth''s crust by its weight?
47119	Can the weight of a great ice- sheet shift the earth''s centre of gravity, and, if so, to what extent?
47119	Did the ice, as we might have supposed, come out of the mountain- valleys and overflow the low country?
47119	Did the last great ice- sheet reach as far south as its predecessor?
47119	Did the reader ever indulge in such a mountain- bath?
47119	Did these also come at a different time?
47119	Did they all melt away immediately when they came into the ice- laden current that flowed towards the south- east?
47119	Having learned that no truly abysmal rocks enter into the composition of our continents, of what kind of rocks, we may ask, are the islands composed?
47119	He speaks of cold and warm currents, but where do we find any traces of the marine organisms which must have abounded in those waters?
47119	How are these to be accounted for?
47119	How can this be done by the land- ice theory?
47119	How do the supporters of the"earth- movement hypothesis"explain this remarkable succession of climatic changes?
47119	How is it then, if the bottom beds be really of Silurian and the igneous rocks of Old Red Sandstone age, that a gap is said to exist between them?
47119	How is the existing distribution of land and water to be accounted for?
47119	How, then, can we explain the appearance of local glaciers in these latitudes during Mesozoic times?
47119	In what region under the sun does anything like that happen at the present day?
47119	Is it possible, then, to explain the climatic vicissitudes of the Pleistocene period by means of such oscillations?
47119	Now what do all these appearances mean?
47119	Now, I ask, is it possible to believe that a sheet of ice of that thickness actually pressed down the crust of the earth for not less than 3600 feet?
47119	These beds have yielded remains of elk(_ Cervus alces_), rhinoceros( species not determined), a small fox(?
47119	Upon what kind of surface did it fall?
47119	What are_ roches moutonnées_ but the rounded relics of what were formerly rough uneven tors, projecting bosses, and prominent rocks?
47119	What areas have been covered with perennial snow and ice?
47119	What could have blocked its passage in that direction?
47119	What is the meaning of these intercalated glacial accumulations?
47119	What might not be expected to happen were the Gulf Stream to be excluded from northern regions?
47119	What now, let us ask, are the outstanding features of the coast- lines of the Atlantic Ocean?
47119	What was it that defined the southern limits of these northern boulders?
47119	What will archæologists say to this conclusion?
47119	What would result from such an unhappy change?
47119	What, in the first place, is greywacké?
47119	What, then, it may be asked, were the causes which allowed of the much broader distribution of species in former ages?
47119	Where are the raised sea- beaches which must have marked the retreat of the sea?
47119	Where did the warm wind come from?
47119	Where do we encounter any organic relics that might help us to map out the zones of shallow and deep water?
47119	Where does all this sand come from?
47119	Where, then, did the ice come from?
47119	Where, then, we are asked, is there any evidence in Palæozoic, Mesozoic, or Cainozoic strata of former widespread glacial conditions?
47119	Why are coast- lines in some regions extremely regular, while elsewhere they are much indented?
47119	Why does n''t he put his money in the savings- bank, and by- and- by die and leave it to those who come after him?
47119	With such a map could our meteorologists infer what the climatic conditions must have been?
47119	_ The Extent of Glaciation in Europe._ To what extent, then, let us ask, has Europe been glaciated?
47119	and does the crust rise again as the ice melts away?
47119	caprea_[?
47119	cinerea_), hazel, poplar(?
38066	Am I seeing double?
38066	And what about all those nuts? 38066 And who has a better right?"
38066	But does he hold his breath all this time? 38066 But how on earth do the roots do this?
38066	But suppose you lived where there was n''t any land to speak of that did n''t tip up; in New England, say-- what would you do then?
38066	But what starts the movement?
38066	But, what are you going to do about it?
38066	For goodness sake, where_ did_ you learn your trade?
38066	Horns and hoofs? 38066 Well,"you say,"is there anything left that these farmers_ do n''t_ do?"
38066	Where can I get a man like that?
38066	Yes, but how does the head make the arm do the pulling? 38066 You ca n''t change the slope of the hills, can you?
38066	( Ca n''t you almost hear him say it?)
38066	( Did you know that whether you spell this weird little creature''s first name,"praying,"with an"e"or an"a"you''d be correct?)
38066	( What kind do you see in the picture of the beaver dam?)
38066	12 came out beautifully, did n''t it?
38066	A LITTLE NAP Queer notion, sleeping on one leg like that, is n''t it?
38066	A fish or a lizard?
38066	A foot?
38066	And did you ever count an earthworm''s rings?
38066	And do you know how she opens the flowers for the bees on sunshiny days?
38066	And do you know that Nature also employs the propeller principle, not only in the operation of the wings of birds but in the wing feathers themselves?
38066	And how Mrs. P. puts a stone roof on her house?
38066	And how are the little folks?"
38066	And how many kinds of earthworms do you suppose there are?
38066	And how much work do you suppose these farmers do in grinding up and fertilizing the soil?
38066	And how the phoebes that make green nests keep them green?
38066	And how the sun acts as a pump for the plant world?
38066	And how?
38066	And is n''t it curious, when one comes to think of it, why a man should take pleasure in seeing a beautiful deer fall dead with a bullet in its heart?
38066	And what for, do you suppose?
38066	And what have you been doing?
38066	And when these two motions-- the up and down and right and left-- are put together, do n''t you see what you get?
38066	And who do you suppose had most to do with teaching men they were really brothers, and so bringing them up to the civilized life we know to- day?
38066	And why swamps are such poor producers?
38066	Anyhow, whoever it was, I think he was more than half right, do n''t you?
38066	Because of this hinge he could open his mouth wider without putting anything out of place, do n''t you see?
38066	But do you know what_ I_ think?
38066	But how did it learn it?
38066	But how does the tip send back word?"
38066	But if a breath of wind would carry them away so easily, how could they_ stay_ on a rock, these tiny lichen travellers?
38066	But is there anything in that old weather saw?
38066	But it''s queer, is n''t it, what different ways people have of looking at things?
38066	But what did Mrs. M. B. do for ground- up stone in the long ages before man came along with his carts?
38066	But, speaking of Papa Ostrich''s parental duties, did you know that it''s_ Mr._ Puffin, and not_ Mrs._ Puffin, who digs the family burrow?
38066	But, speaking of the way swallows take to human society, do you know where our barn- swallows came from?
38066	By the way, do you know who that man is?
38066	Can you guess why?
38066	Can you guess, when I tell you it''s from a French word meaning"honeycomb"?
38066	Canst work i''the earth so fast?
38066	Could you do it?
38066	DO EARTHWORMS COME DOWN WITH THE RAIN?
38066	Did anybody ever tell you how the volcanoes help the winds to help the plants to get their breath?
38066	Did the brownies or the gnomes tell it; or was it some of the spirits of the wind that go everywhere and see everything?
38066	Did you ever notice how big boulders in a field are frequently sunk into the ground as if dropped from a great height?
38066	Did you ever try it?
38066	Do n''t you see, he''s getting his dinner?
38066	Do n''t you think he looks it?
38066	Do n''t you think so?
38066	Do n''t you think so?
38066	Do you know how men dig subways; like those under New York City and Boston, for instance?
38066	Do you know how the rains help to get the mineral food up into the plant?
38066	Do you know what a gold mill is?
38066	Do you know what a human nitrogen factory is like?
38066	Do you know why the phoebe bird so often uses moss in building her nest?
38066	Do you know why?
38066	Do you wonder that the wise men of London laughed at the idea that there is any such creature-- even when they were looking right at one?]
38066	Does n''t it seem funny that one of the little farmer birds-- a burrower-- should go into partnership with a lizard?
38066	Does our saliva do for us anything like what it does for the earthworm; and our pancreatic juice?
38066	Especially as they have no roots?
38066	FIND THE THIRD Do n''t they look happy-- these two tow- heads?
38066	Finally, if what we call flesh and blood can think and talk, why not a grain of dust?
38066	First, they float down- stream, as you know, but when autumn comes on, what do you suppose they do?
38066	For, what do you suppose the winds take for millstones in grinding down the mountains into dust?
38066	From a force of sixty pounds, when it was a mere baby, what do you suppose its push amounted to when it had reached full squashhood in October?
38066	HIDE AND SEEK IN THE LIBRARY Did you know that the ash and maple seeds actually have screw propellers, like a ship, so that they can ride on the wind?
38066	HIDE AND SEEK IN THE LIBRARY What have burrowing animals to do with the drainage system of the land?
38066	HIDE AND SEEK IN THE LIBRARY Who was that in Mother Goose that went a- fishing"for to catch a whale"?
38066	HOW DID THESE FARMERS LEARN TO STORE?
38066	HOW MR. LICHEN EATS UP STONES But how could such feeble creatures, as they seem to be, ever eat anything so hard as rock?
38066	Have n''t you done it to your sorrow?
38066	Have you any idea how far seed may be carried by a hurricane?
38066	He rubs his little blinking eyes, So heavy from long sleep, That he may read the tell- tale skies-- Which is it-- wake or sleep?"
38066	Here''s the_ next_ problem: Shall the mixing be done where the building is going up over there?
38066	How can he?"
38066	How could a tempest that blew down a tree help its seeds to get a start?
38066	How did they do it?
38066	How do angleworms help drain the soil?
38066	How do the forests help make good use of the rain that falls, not only for themselves but for the rest of us?
38066	How do the rains help to warm the ground in the spring?
38066	How do they differ in the way of using their noses?
38066	How do you suppose deserts that get so little rain themselves could_ help make it rain_ in other places?
38066	How do you suppose such a strange idea ever got started?
38066	How do you suppose they get there?
38066	How does the earthworm''s method of pushing his way in the world with the end of his nose compare with the way a root works along in the ground?
38066	How long do you suppose they are, these big fishworms?
38066	How many hearts do you suppose an earthworm has?
38066	How much do you know about the little brains scattered through our bodies(_ Ganglia_)?
38066	How would you do it; even if you had tools?
38066	If so, why?
38066	If the worms were drowned out it would be the other way around, do n''t you see?
38066	If we use untrimmed trees, which end shall we put up- stream?
38066	In fact, what is flesh and blood but dust come back to life?
38066	In what way does the wind help to_ produce_ the seed of grasses as well as carry and plant them?
38066	Is n''t that a story for you?
38066	Is n''t that queer?
38066	Is n''t that right?
38066	Looks like another fine day, does n''t it?"
38066	Maybe this is their way of saying"Good morning,"or"How do you do?"
38066	Money?
38066	Mrs. Mason- Bee fills these cells with honey, lays an egg in the honey, and when the babies come along-- don''t you see?
38066	Not a very pretty picture, is it?
38066	Now here''s a thing; you stow away a lot of seeds in a little hill where, of course, there''s moisture, and what''s going to happen?
38066	Of course, the moles do cut a root here and there occasionally when it happens to be in the way, as they tunnel along, but what does that amount to?
38066	Once there was a London banker who used to go around with-- what do you think-- in his pockets?
38066	Or how_ does_ he do it?
38066	Or shall we use both trimmed and untrimmed trees?
38066	Or the beeches before the pines?
38066	Or the maples before the beeches?
38066	Or, why should a boy want to kill a little bird?
38066	Rather a clever unloading device, too; do n''t you think so?
38066	SEE IF YOU''RE AS CLEVER AS MR. BEAVER"Right across the dam,"you would say, would n''t you?
38066	Say you''ve got your trees up to where the dam is to be; now how are you going to set them in building the dam?
38066	See the granary and the roads leading to it?
38066	See the point?
38066	Seems incredible, does n''t it?
38066	Serious thing for that little boy, was n''t it?
38066	Shall we use trees with the branches still on them or trees trimmed down like sticks of cord- wood?
38066	So why should n''t they?
38066	Speaking of"wind ploughs,"what is the object of ploughing anyway?
38066	Suppose we had a stomach like the earthworm, would n''t it be fun?
38066	THAT MYSTERY ABOUT THE BEAVER''S TAIL Then what_ do_ they do with those tails?
38066	THE TERMITES AND THEIR TOWERS OF BABEL But speaking of big buildings, did you ever hear of a skyscraper a mile high?
38066	That picture looks as if it had a tremendous lot of flamingoes in it, does n''t it?
38066	That''s what any live boy would ask, would n''t he?
38066	The butt or the tip?
38066	The science people call them"Bacteria,"but what of that?
38066	Then how do they ever get up and get planted on the shore?
38066	Then how, in the name of common sense, did their bones get up into the mountains?"
38066	Then what are you going to do?
38066	Then what would you do; that is, if_ you_ were an ant?
38066	This is what I_ felt_ like saying:"What if they do?
38066	Three feet?
38066	Two feet?
38066	Was that the dormouse speaking?
38066	Well, I guess we''ll have to tell him we do n''t know, wo n''t we?
38066	What do you suppose he did that for?
38066	What do you think that man did once?
38066	What for?
38066	What good to the soil do the insects do that eat up dead- wood?
38066	What happened then?
38066	What happened to it?"
38066	What kind of an edge would_ you_ put on a door to make it fit tight?
38066	What makes them do it?"
38066	What then?
38066	What then?"
38066	What''s the connection?"
38066	Where are you going?
38066	Where?
38066	Who''s got a better right?"
38066	Why ca n''t they let a fellow alone?"
38066	Why is it that, with the exception of a straggler here and there, the first trees to climb the stony mountainsides are the pines?
38066	Why should n''t the oaks come before the maples?
38066	Why, how_ are_ you?
38066	Why, what always happens?
38066	Why?
38066	Yes, I suppose so; but what else?
38066	Yet the ducks just could n''t take it into their families either, for what else do you think it does?
38066	You could n''t keep your hands off a book with a name like that, could you?
38066	You got fooled that time, did n''t you?
38066	You have heard about the lazy man down in Arkansas with the hole in his roof?
38066	You know who Hornaday is, do n''t you?
38066	You see how handy that would come in, do n''t you?
38066	You see why that is, do n''t you?
38066	You see why, do n''t you?
38066	You would n''t open the door by pushing that dear, little tender head of his against it, would you?
38066	You''d hardly think that, would you?
38066	[ 17] You''ve often noticed them, have n''t you?
38066	[ 20] Is n''t that the way a toad swallows an angleworm?
38066	[ Illustration: A HEAP OF GRIST FROM AN ANT SOIL MILL Something of an ant- hill, is n''t it?
38066	[ Illustration: A HOME IN THE DESERT Does n''t look much like a home in the desert, does it?
38066	[ Illustration: AN ANT CARRYING ONE OF HER COWS] You know about how ants keep cows, little bugs called aphids?
38066	[ Illustration: HIGHWAYS OF GROUND- SQUIRREL TOWN Almost as crooked as the streets of London town, are n''t they?
38066	[ Illustration: MR. GROUND- HOG AND HIS SHADOW"But is there anything in the old weather saw?
38066	[ Illustration: THE SEQUOIAS; THE SUNLIGHT AND THE SHADE Wonderful sunlight effect, is n''t it?
38066	[ Illustration: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LAND WHEN THE TREES ARE GONE Could anything be more desolate?
38066	[ Illustration: WHOSE AUTOGRAPH IS THIS?