Questions

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identifier	question
20137	4, 6;[?]
20137	Second, the"Mimansa"( inquiry), devoted to the solution of the problem, How can the material world spring from Brahma, or the immaterial?
31608	And what was there at the beginning?
31608	But is it true?
31608	Delitzsch voluminously asked:_ Wo lag das Paradies?_ There it is.
31608	Have you approached your neighbour''s wife?
31608	Have you stolen your neighbour''s garment?
31608	He asked the patient: Have you shed your neighbour''s blood?
31608	Or is it that you have failed to clothe the naked?
22213	Quid referam ut volitet crebras intacta per urbes Alba Palaestino sancta columba Syro? 22213 Si tribuunt fata genesis, cur deos oratis?"
22213	[ 29] Must we then believe that Hebraic monotheism had some influence upon the mysteries of the Great Mother? 22213 --Sollte übrigens die{ 259} Bedeutung Welt diesem Worte erst durch Einfluss griechischer Speculation zu Teil geworden sein? 22213 And are not the physical and moral qualities of the different races manifestly determined by the climate in which they live? 22213 And how could it be otherwise? 22213 Bréhier,Orient ou Byzance?"
22213	But how can the presence in the Occident of that begging and low nomadic clergy be explained?
22213	But how did he get to Italy from the Persian uplands?
22213	By what principle have such a quality and so great an influence been attributed to the stars?
22213	By what secret virtue did the Egyptian religion exercise this irresistible influence over the Roman world?
22213	Compare what{ 270} Hippolytus,_ Philos._, V, I, says of Isis( Ishtar?)
22213	Did any exchange take place between these rival sects?
22213	Did not the blending of the races result in multiplying the variety of disagreements?
22213	Did the success of their preaching mean progress or retrogression from the standard of the ancient Roman faith?
22213	Does not the movement of the tide depend on the course of the moon?
22213	For instance, Were all the men that perish together in a battle, born at the same moment, because they had the same fate?
22213	From what sources are we to derive our knowledge of the Oriental religions in the Roman empire?
22213	Had not a complacent syncretism engendered a multiplication of sects?
22213	Had not the confused collision of creeds produced a division into fragments, a communication of churches?
22213	How did the barbaric ideas refine themselves and combine with each other when thrown into the fiery crucible of imperial syncretism?
22213	However, can we speak of_ one_ pagan religion?
22213	Is his name derived from that of the Egyptian god Osiris- Apis, or from that of the Chaldean deity Sar- Apsi?
22213	Is it for reasons derived from their apparent motion and known through observation or experience?
22213	Is not the rising of certain constellations accompanied every year by storms?
22213	Is the study which we have just outlined possible?
22213	It speaks of a"de[orum?]
22213	Obdormiscunt enim superi remeare ut ad vigilias debeant?
22213	Or, on the other hand, do we not observe that twins, born at the same time, have the most unlike characters and the most different fortunes?
22213	Quid dormitiones illae quibus ut bene valeant auspicabili salutatione mandatis?"
22213	See Yasht V, XXI, 94: What"becomes of the libations which the wicked bring to you after sunset?"
22213	Under what influences did the Persian magic come into existence?
22213	Was Serapis of native origin, or was he imported from Sinope or Seleucia, or even from Babylon?
22213	Were not a great number of famous jurists like Ulpian of Tyre and Papinian of Hemesa natives of Syria?
22213	What called forth and permitted this spiritual commotion, of which the triumph of Christianity was the outcome?
22213	What do we find three centuries later?
22213	What items will be of assistance to us in this undertaking?
22213	What new elements did those priests, who made proselytes in every province, give the Roman world?
22213	What was the result of this confusion of heterogeneous doctrines whose multiplicity was extreme and whose values were very different?
22213	What was the superiority attributed to the creeds of that country?
22213	What was this Asiatic religion that had suddenly been transferred into the heart of Rome by an extraordinary circumstance?
22213	When and how did it spread?
22213	Who can tell what influence chambermaids from Antioch or Memphis gained over the minds of their mistresses?
22213	Why did even an Illyrian general like Aurelian look for the most perfect type of pagan religion in that country?
22213	Why was the influence of the Orient strongest in the religious field?
22213	Why was this Egyptian worship the only one of all Oriental religions to suffer repeated persecutions?
22213	Will a girl just coming into this world have gallant adventures?
22213	[ 13] What was the theology they learned?
29893	Does Heaven plainly declare its Ming?
29893	For whom did ye fashion me,she says;"wherefore was I made?"
29893	A man ceases to think for himself what is right and good, and only asks, What does the law say?
29893	And for what end does he wield this mighty rule?
29893	And how indeed is he to be related to the world?
29893	And lastly, What is the religion of Egypt?
29893	And should it not be the same in religion?
29893	Art thou become like unto us?"
29893	But can he not worship another god when the first one is out of sight and out of mind?
29893	But how could all mankind forget a pure religion?
29893	But how did early man regard these great powers before this?
29893	But if religion is in this way a public matter, a matter of the tribe and its concerns, what place is there in it for the individual?
29893	But it presents the gravest difficulties; for why should the savage make a god of a stick or a stone, and attribute to it supernatural powers?
29893	Can the higher nature- deities be accounted for by this theory as well as the minor spirits of the parts of nature?
29893	Can this be called religion?
29893	Did beast worship spring by a process of degradation from the worship of the high gods?
29893	Did he make it, and is he responsible for it?
29893	Did he really need to argue out the belief that they had souls, before he felt drawn to wonder at them, and to seek to enter into relations with them?
29893	Did the Chinese conceive this ruler as identical with heaven, or as a personality dwelling in it or above it?
29893	Did the higher worship then spring by a process of development out of the lower?
29893	Did they not appear to him adorable by the very impressions they made upon his various senses?
29893	Early Religion and Morality.--How did this early religion bear upon morality?
29893	How did it get there?
29893	How, by whom, and when were they formed into a nation?
29893	In how far was it a power for righteousness?
29893	Is it possible to give any description of the religion the Aryans had in common before they developed it in different ways in their various lands?
29893	Is it the cross?]
29893	Is that because such worship did not flourish in their day?
29893	Nirvana.--Our account of the doctrine would appear incomplete if we did not attempt to answer the question, What is Nirvana?
29893	Religious faith forbade the thought that such a thing was possible; if Israel was destroyed, where would Israel''s religion be?
29893	See Psalms Iceland, 264 decay of old religion of, 272 Idols, none in primitive religion, 73 Arabia, 219, 220 German?
29893	The Doctrine.--And what is the message he proclaims?
29893	The Homeric Gods.--What, then, is the religion of Homer?
29893	The Vedic Gods.--And who are the gods who receive this worship?
29893	The great discovery being made, and duly pondered and realised, the question arose, What was to be done with it?
29893	Theories Accounting for Animal Worship.--What did this worship mean?
29893	This world of change and decay, of disappointment and sorrow, what has the perfect being to do with that?
29893	Though he worshipped heaven yesterday, can he not worship the sun to- day, or the storm, or the great sea?
29893	Was the legend of Mahavira, then, a sectarian version of the legend of Gautama, did no such person exist, at least as the founder of a religious body?
29893	What are the earliest gods of the land, and in what relation do the various gods which were worshipped in it stand to each other?
29893	What are these?
29893	What is religion morally?
29893	What is the motive of worship?
29893	What is the relation between the divine laws which are written in the hearts of all men, and human laws which sometimes contradict these older ones?
29893	What is the worshipper to do?
29893	What then is thought of the present existence of the hero?
29893	What was the method which was held to have had such results?
29893	When he does tell us of the beginnings of religion, what is his view?
29893	When we ask for the common type of working Semitic religion, where are we to look for it?
29893	Where, then, was the early home of the undivided Aryan[1] race, from which the swarms first issued which were to conquer and rule the various lands?
29893	Who are the Egyptians, and where did they come from?
29893	Who told him about a god, that he should call a stick god, or about supernatural powers, that he should suppose a stick to work wonders?
29893	Why does a curse cleave to a certain house, evil producing evil from generation to generation?
29893	Why is Prometheus, though the noblest benefactor of the human race, doomed to undergo such sufferings?
29893	Wonder, no doubt, is always present in it, but what is there in it beyond wonder?
29893	Worship in Homer.--The gods being of such a nature, what relations does man keep up with them, and how do they affect his life?
29893	and how are we to account for it?
38100	Doctor,a man may say,"can I swallow this without being choked?"
38100	How,for example, we may ask,"can anything be recognized as divine, unless human judgment is passed upon it?
38100	I said,''then you consider that even a stone in the bladder is created by God?'' 38100 Well said wife; what though we are punished for the many?
38100	What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
38100	Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord( Jehovah), or being his counsellor hath taught him?
38100	** With this and the following saying we may compare the words of the Psalms--"Do not I hate those, O Lord, that hate thee?
38100	11, a question,"why say the scribes that Elias must first come?"
38100	13 is generally translated"ask,"as we should remark,"well, if he asks me what must I say?"
38100	3, wherein we find certain disciples asking,"What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"
38100	33), who hewed Agag into pieces?
38100	55, where we find the people saying,"Is not this the carpenter''s son?
38100	9) remarks--"Si adest dea Prema ut subacta se non commoveat quum prematur, dea Pertunda quid ea facit?"
38100	Against this, or side by side with it, what can Great Britain, or any other Christian country show?
38100	Amongst the questions which they provoke, the first is,"how far the accounts given to us are to be depended upon?"
38100	Amongst their prayers, or invocations, were the formulas,"Wilt Thou blot us out, O Lord, for ever?
38100	Are they honest?
38100	Are ye not much better than they?...
38100	Are you not offending Him in curing those whom He would kill?''
38100	Are you not opposing God by so doing?
38100	Are"divines"honest?
38100	Because the Mizraim punished killing, were they taught of God?
38100	But in what consists the horror, unless in the fact that the sacrifice was seen by the worshippers?
38100	But king over whom?
38100	But why should we be surprised at the followers of"the Son"doing that which"the Father"ordained?
38100	Can a bigot be a liberal?
38100	Can a most virtuous life command for the individual who has practised it an eternity of bliss?
38100	Can civilization grow out of barbarism?
38100	Can the Christian adopt the belief that Mahometan and Mormon are both orthodox because they have faith?
38100	Can we believe him to be honest?
38100	Choice proposed-- faith or reason?
38100	Comes this spark from earth, Piercing and all- pervading, or from heaven?
38100	Did the Devil give to the heathen the knowledge of Satan''s origin and power?
38100	Do Papal authorities believe in the annual miracle at Naples?
38100	Does travel tell us of any set of teachers more self- denying than the individuals who devote themselves as religious Buddhists?
38100	During the talk, the woman, every time she uttered a sentence, said,"Am I right?"
38100	For the credulous, what fact could be more strongly attested than this?
38100	Had not He already made man out of dust and woman out of man?
38100	His argument is-- Can a man who hates the light be worthy to speak of the"Sun of Righteousness?"
38100	How far this is true has been repeatedly proved by those who have made the spirits say anything--"Where is my sister?"
38100	How should a doubt be tackled-- by inquiry, or by ignoring it?
38100	If Jesus was right, why not enforce his teaching?
38100	If compass wrong, why steer by it?
38100	If every one was to live from hand to mouth, who would keep a calf until it became a heifer, or a lamb to become a sheep?
38100	If so, why did the Jews, and why do Christians, adopt it?
38100	If this can not be done, how can the follower of Jesus hope to convert others to his belief, unless by the use of reason?
38100	If, for an example, the question were put to both"What is honesty?"
38100	If, then, the theologian uses reason as a weapon against heterodoxy, upon what ground can he object to its being employed by another?
38100	In other words, is there anything of the nature of absolute goodness in the attempt to make oneself miserable?
38100	In this hymn I have only omitted the repeated question-- Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
38100	Is Bishop Browne honest in controversy?
38100	Is it honest in religion to promulgate that which we knew to be wrong, or which we dare not inquire into for fear of consequences?
38100	Is it possible that any minister in politics, or religion, can believe that"Honesty is the best policy,"and yet act with double- dealing?
38100	Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
38100	Is the"firm"or"company"honest?
38100	Is this honest?
38100	Is this punishment intended, not for our reformation, but for our destruction?"
38100	Is, then, the sturdy English theologian to be content to leave the followers of Islam alone, because they have faith?
38100	It is true that the youth replied,"Wist ye not that I must be about my father''s business?"
38100	It will be seen that the question to which I refer is this--"Shall men and states be governed by faith?"
38100	L 7, 14,--"Who maketh his angels spirits;""Are they not all ministering spirits?"
38100	Lying miracles-- are they promulgated honestly?
38100	Now, if we require from ourselves a distinct answer to the question, what is prayer?
38100	One may now ask,"Why did people think that it was part of the Christian''s privileges or powers to speak with tongues?"
38100	Ought the divine to be less honest than the merchant?
38100	Pilate is reported to have said--"What is truth?"
38100	Prophet who says that he converses with an angel--is he to be credited?
38100	The Siamese author next discusses the question,"how shall a man select that religion which he can trust to for his future happiness?"
38100	The question has often suggested itself to my own mind,"How much has insanity of mind had to do with religion?"
38100	Then come the important questions--"What right has any religious bigot to profess himself a liberal?"
38100	Thence proceeded the earth,_ Ua, or Mot_( Sans);_ Math_( Sans) making fire by rubbing sticks( coitus?)
38100	Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?...
38100	Upon this point the following passages will be found very significant:--''Who has seen the primeval being at the time of His being born?
38100	Was the Jewish ignorance the result of Divine"inspiration?"
38100	What does he find?
38100	What have we here?
38100	What is faith?
38100	What is that One alone, who has upheld these six spheres in the form of an unborn?''"
38100	What is the value of education unless it enables us, when necessary, to find whether we are in the right way or not?
38100	What though our bodies be disgracefully exposed on these crosses?
38100	What was the massacre at Cawnpore to that in Jericho and other Canaanite cities?
38100	What, let us ask, would the orthodox declare was amissing?
38100	When was India first known to Christians?
38100	When we find out that, what will be our opinion of the captain?
38100	Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang?
38100	Which must the faithful follow?
38100	Who can assert that Abraham and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, were taught of God, and that to the Hebrews alone has the Creator revealed His will?
38100	Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
38100	Who knows from whence this great creation sprang?
38100	Who knows the secret?
38100	Who would believe the ravings of a lunatic, even though he told us that God had sent him with a message to man?
38100	Why do Christians, as a body, reject the revelation made to Mahomet, and the frequent inspirations which give laws to the latter- day saints?
38100	Why take ye thought for raiment, consider the lilies of the field... if God so clothe the grass... shall he not much more clothe you?
38100	Why, however, should any goal be undesirable which leads us nearer to truth?
38100	Why, then, do not men, like Mr Gladstone, join it?
38100	Without further preface, let us inquire"what Faith really is?"
38100	Would you behold his head and his fair face?
38100	Your soldiers subjugate gods and men, but not me, I shall crush them by wisdom, then what will you do?"
38100	am I justified in using my reason only in one direction?
38100	and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee?
38100	and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas, and his sisters, are they not all with us?"
38100	and if we are to mete out degrees of culpability, to whom must the severest punishment be awarded?
38100	and if what has been given to me as sound meat, is rotten in reality, am I bound to eat it?
38100	and that the Jew must still be dear to Jehovah, inasmuch as he still clings closely by faith to the revelation given to Moses and the prophets?
38100	and, in the next place, whether we get that to which we are entitled?
38100	and,"Is it not right for us to risk our own souls in support of a faith which we do not, but which the people do, believe?"
38100	can it do me good in any way?
38100	from earth are the breath and blood, but where is the soul-- who may repair to the sage to ask this?
38100	if I profess to argue, am I not bound to be logical?
38100	if every one in new Jerusalem is a ruler, what is he a ruler of?
38100	if he was wrong, why not say so?
38100	ii.,--"Who now,"he makes Lucilius say,"believes in Hippocentaurs and Chimeras?
38100	in other words,"by the hierarchy of the most numerous section of the community-- or by reason-- i.e., by the good sense of the majority?"
38100	is not his mother called Mary?
38100	or over what?
38100	or what old woman is now to be found so weak and ignorant as to stand in fear of those infernal monsters which once so terrified mankind?
38100	or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
38100	or, How can any revelation be accepted, unless the mind has examined the messenger and the message?"
38100	or, must he still endeavour to convert them by the use of reason?
38100	or,"What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
38100	v. 6--"Neither say thou before the angel that it was an error; wherefore... should God destroy the works of thine hands?"
38100	was water the deep abyss, the chaos which swallowed up everything?"
38100	what is that endowed with substance that the unsubstantial sustains?
38100	what was the refuge of what?
38100	who proclaimed it here?
1397	And if you die to prove that they make five, will that make them five?
1397	And in what respect are you more worthy than we?
1397	And what is the natural law?
1397	And what is this luminous doctrine that fears the light? 1397 And what right have you, more than we,"said the Imans,"to constitute yourselves the representatives of God?
1397	Be it so,replied the legislator;"but if they contradict each other, who shall reconcile them?"
1397	Besides, what addition or diminution will it make to our existence, to answer yes or no to all these chimeras? 1397 Besides, why resort forever to incomplete and insufficient miracles?
1397	By what right do you constitute yourselves mediators between God and us?
1397	Do you love pleasure and hate pain?
1397	Farther, what is believing, if believing influences no action? 1397 First, considering the diversity and opposition of the creeds to which you are attached, we ask on what motives you found your persuasion?
1397	How dare you speak of morals,answered the Christian priests,"you, whose chief lived in licentiousness and preached impurity?
1397	How prove you that?
1397	If error has its martyrs, what is the sure criterion of truth? 1397 If his justice,"replied the simple men,"is not like ours, by what rule are we to judge of it?
1397	If that law is sufficient, why has he given any other? 1397 If the evil spirit works miracles, what is the distinctive character of God?
1397	If the knowledge of these things is so necessary, why have we lived as well without it as those who have taken so much trouble concerning it? 1397 Is it because you pretend to have issued from the head of Brama, and the rest of the human race from the less noble parts of his body?
1397	Is it not, then, demonstrated that truth is not the object of your contests? 1397 Is it to you or to God I am to confess?"
1397	Is sugar sweet, and gall bitter?
1397	Now, tell us, is there a cavern in the centre of the earth, or inhabitants in the moon?
1397	We understand them not,said the simple men;"and how came this just God to give you this privilege over us?
1397	What, then, is your persuasion to prove, if it changes not the existence of things? 1397 Where is the proof of these orders?"
1397	Who is this man,cried all the groups,"who thus insults us without a cause?
1397	''Who knoweth,''said he,''the spirit of a man that it goeth upwards?
1397	* And is not the testimony of our fathers and our gods as valid as that of the fathers and the gods of the West?
1397	* What is a people?
1397	*** Of what real good has been the commerce of India to the mass of the people?
1397	After reading this performance it will be asked, how it was possible in 1784 to have had an idea of what did not take place till the year 1790?
1397	Alas, if man is blind, shall his misfortune be also his crime?
1397	Am I not an unbeliever?
1397	And can not a merciful God correct without extermination?
1397	And can we ever expect the union of so many circumstances?
1397	And do the plants no longer bear fruit and seed?
1397	And for what reason are their books to be preferred to ours?
1397	And have we not an equal right to use them, in choosing what to believe and what to reject?
1397	And how can you hold any converse with a man of such bad connexions?
1397	And how did its first authors propagate it, when, being alone possessed of it, their own people were to them profane?
1397	And if it treats us with forbearance, what authority have you to be less indulgent?
1397	And if the first obstacles are overcome, why should the others be insurmountable?
1397	And if we should be deceived, how will that just God save us contrary to law, or condemn us on a law which we have not known?"
1397	And if, in the anguish of their miseries, they see not the remedies, is it the ignorance of God which is to blame, or their ignorance?
1397	And of what concern the subtleties with which their folly torments itself?
1397	And the large body said to the little one: Why are you separated from us?
1397	And those nations which call themselves polished, are they not the same that for the last three centuries have filled the earth with their injustice?
1397	And what action is influenced by believing, for instance, that the world is or is not eternal?"
1397	And what is doubt, replied he, that it should be a crime?
1397	And what, said I, are those mad animalculae, which destroy each other?
1397	And when, after the destruction of crops, famine has ensued, is it the vengeance of God which has produced it, or the mad fury of mortals?
1397	And who shall assure us that you are not in error yourselves, or that you will not lead us into error?
1397	And who will attest what no one has seen?
1397	And will you grant them privileges of belief to our detriment?"
1397	And yet, are not these the children of the prophets?
1397	And you call God just?
1397	And you, learned doctors, we call you to witness; is not this the unanimous testimony of all ancient monuments?
1397	And you, rebel and misguided nation, perceive you not that your new leaders are misleading you?
1397	And, moreover, why all these laws, and what is the object proposed by them?"
1397	And, what do you expect, oh vanquished, from useless groans?
1397	Answer, generation of falsehood and iniquity, hath God deranged the primitive and settled order of things which he himself assigned to nature?
1397	Are all the nations still in that age when nothing was seen upon the globe but brutal robbers and brutal slaves?
1397	Are courage and strength of body and mind virtues in the law of nature?
1397	Are idleness and sloth vices in the law of nature?
1397	Are ignorance and silliness common?
1397	Are men still in their forests, destitute of everything, ignorant, stupid and ferocious?
1397	Are not other laws beneficent likewise?
1397	Are not other laws evident?
1397	Are not other laws just?
1397	Are not other laws pacific?
1397	Are the fires of the sun extinct in the regions of space?
1397	Are the holy people of God less fortunate than the races of impiety?
1397	Are the rains and the dews suspended in the air?
1397	Are the social virtues numerous?
1397	Are the streams dried up?
1397	Are the talents and genius of governors turned to the benefit of the people?
1397	Are then the Vedes, the Chastres, and the Pourans inferior to the Bibles, the Zendavestas, and the Zadders?
1397	Are they his passions which, under a thousand forms, torment individuals and nations, or are they the passions of man?
1397	Are we not men of another race-- the noble and pure descendants of the conquerors of this empire?
1397	Are we to understand by filial love a passive and blind submission?
1397	Are you not men like us?"
1397	Are you not of our number?
1397	Art thou disposed to think that the human race degenerates?
1397	Before adopting this doctrine, rather than that, did you first compare?
1397	Besides, how can you answer for us?
1397	But being born ignorant, is not ignorance a law of nature?
1397	But can man individually acquire this knowledge necessary to his existence, and to the development of his faculties?
1397	But does not even this prove that our sensations can deceive us respecting the end of our preservation?
1397	But does not this necessity of preservation engender in individuals egotism, that is to say self- love?
1397	But if a man is born strong, has he a natural right to master the weak man?
1397	But is not society to man a state against nature?
1397	But, then, as our will is not sufficient to procure us those qualities, is it a crime to be destitute of them?
1397	Can intention be a merit or a crime?
1397	Can liberty be born from the bosom of despots?
1397	Can man feel otherwise than as he is affected?
1397	Can the teachers and followers of this religion be better classed than under the heads of knavery and credulity?
1397	Can we receive them without examining the evidence?
1397	Children of nature, how long will you walk in the paths of ignorance?
1397	Demands he devastation for homage, and conflagration for sacrifice?
1397	Did heaven reveal it to be kept a secret?
1397	Disciple of Truth, knowest thou that object?
1397	Do such orders exist in nature?
1397	Do the mountains withhold their springs?
1397	Do the seas no longer emit their vapors?
1397	Do thus perish then the works of men-- thus vanish empires and nations?
1397	Do you endure the ardor of the sun, and the torment of thirst, to reap the harvest or thrash the grain?
1397	Do you give growth to the plants of the earth, that you may waste them?
1397	Do you look upon opulence as a virtue?
1397	Do you not give them arbitrators?
1397	Do you see, said the Genius, those flames which spread over the earth, and do you comprehend their causes and effects?
1397	Do you suppose that all men hear equally, see equally, feel equally, have equal wants, and equal passions?
1397	Do you toil to furrow the field?
1397	Do you traverse deserts, like the merchant?
1397	Do you, like the shepherd, watch through the dews of the night?
1397	Does he not know, better than men, what befits his dignity?"
1397	Does it allow us to repair it by prayers, vows, offerings to God, fasting and mortifications?
1397	Does it enjoin forgiveness of injuries?
1397	Does it interdict even an inclination to rob?
1397	Does it prescribe humility as a virtue?
1397	Does it prescribe mildness and modesty?
1397	Does it prescribe to us, after having received a blow on one cheek, to hold out the other?
1397	Does not instinct alone teach the law of nature?
1397	Does not this overturn every idea of justice and of reason?"
1397	Does the law of nature consider as virtues faith and hope, which are often joined with charity?
1397	Does the law of nature forbid robbery?
1397	Does the law of nature forbid the use of certain kinds of meat, or of certain vegetables, on particular days, during certain seasons?
1397	Does the law of nature interdict absolutely the use of wine?
1397	Does the law of nature look on that absolute chastity so recommended in monastical institutions, as a virtue?
1397	Does the law of nature order sincerity?
1397	Does the law of nature prescribe continence?
1397	Does the law of nature prescribe probity?
1397	Does the law of nature prescribe to do good to others beyond the bounds of reason and measure?
1397	Dost thou not know that system of worship?
1397	Doth sanctity consist in destruction?
1397	Everything that tends to preserve, or to produce is therefore a good?
1397	From what you say, one would think that poverty was a vice?
1397	Give me some examples?
1397	Has it not hereby declared you all equal and free?
1397	Has not God endowed us, as well as him, with eyes, understanding, and reason?
1397	Hath God the heart of a mortal, with passions ever changing?
1397	Hath heaven denied to earth, and earth to its inhabitants, the blessings they formerly dispensed?
1397	Have not virtue and vice an object purely spiritual and abstracted from the senses?
1397	Have the Christians an exclusive right of setting up a blind faith?
1397	Have the factitious and conventional laws tended to that object and accomplished that aim?
1397	Have these laws, on the contrary, restrained the effort of man toward his own happiness?
1397	Have vice and virtue degrees of strength and intensity?
1397	Have we any thing equal to that?
1397	Have you privileges that we have not?
1397	Hence follows this other question: how came they to the knowledge of your fathers, who themselves had no other means than you to conceive them?
1397	How can we, by the law of nature, repair the evil we have done?
1397	How do our sensations deceive us?
1397	How do you divide the virtues?
1397	How do you prove this assertion?
1397	How does it forbid libertinism?
1397	How does it forbid murder?
1397	How does it prohibit gluttony?
1397	How does nature order man to preserve himself?
1397	How does the law of nature forbid ignorance?
1397	How does the law of nature prescribe filial love?
1397	How does the law of nature prescribe justice?
1397	How does the law of nature prescribe science?
1397	How does the law of nature prescribe sobriety?
1397	How does the law of nature prescribe the practice of good and virtue, and forbid that of evil and vice?
1397	How is charity or the love of one''s neighbor a precept and application of it?
1397	How is drunkenness considered in the law of nature?
1397	How is equality a physical attribute of man?
1397	How is justice derived from these three attributes?
1397	How is liberty a physical attribute of man?
1397	How is property a physical attribute of man?
1397	How is this virtue prescribed to us?
1397	How long, with vain clamors, will he accuse Fate as the author of his calamities?
1397	I have said, with a sigh: is man then born but for sorrow and anguish?
1397	If God be good, can your penances please him?
1397	If God is good, will he be the author of your misery?
1397	If Heaven holds us guilty and in abhorrence, why does it impart to us the same blessings as to you?
1397	If all are equal in the civil state, where is our prerogative of birth, of inheritance?
1397	If all men are equal, where is our exclusive right to honors and to power?
1397	If all men are to be free, what becomes of our slaves, our vassals, our property?
1397	If at any time, in any place, individuals have ameliorated, why shall not the whole mass ameliorate?
1397	If guides, who teach mankind to see for themselves, mislead and deceive them, what can be expected from those who profess to keep them in darkness?
1397	If he attacks us, shall we not defend ourselves?
1397	If he is just, will he be the accomplice of your crimes?
1397	If he likes to believe without examination, must we therefore not examine before we believe?
1397	If he wishes to punish, hath he not earthquakes, volcanoes, and thunder?
1397	If his decrees have been formed on foresight of every circumstance, can your prayers change them?
1397	If infinite, can your homage add to his glory?
1397	If it be uncertain or equivocal, how is he to find in it what it has not?
1397	If it is not sufficient, why did he make it imperfect?"
1397	If nothing hath changed in the creation, if the same means now exist which before existed, why then are not the present what former generations were?
1397	If partial societies have made improvements, what shall hinder the improvement of society in general?
1397	If such be infidelity, what then is the true faith?
1397	If the ancient shepherds were so studious and sagacious, how does it happen that the modern ones are so stupid, ignorant, and inattentive?
1397	If the faith of one man is applicable to many, what need have even you to believe?
1397	If the law of nature be not written, must it not become arbitrary and ideal?
1397	If the people perish who will nourish the army?
1397	If they are all equal in the sight of God, what need of mediators?--where is the priesthood?
1397	If this knowledge is superfluous, why should we burden ourselves with it to- day?"
1397	If violence and persecution are the arguments of truth, are gentleness and charity the signs of falsehood?"
1397	If you die to prove that two and two make four, will your death add any thing to this truth?"
1397	If, as you say, it emanates immediately from God, does it teach his existence?
1397	If, then, such vast numbers of us are in the wrong, who shall dare to say,"I am in the right?"
1397	In general, nothing is more important than a good elementary book; but, also, nothing is more difficult to compose and even to read: and why?
1397	In so many centuries, during which you have been following or altering them, what changes have your prescriptions wrought in the laws of nature?
1397	In some parts of Europe, indeed, reason has begun to dawn, but even there, do nations partake of the knowledge of individuals?
1397	In the mean time how is it possible to conduct one''s self otherwise with the people so long as they are people?
1397	In what consist the anathemas of heaven over this land?
1397	In what manner ought a society to act when two of its members fight?
1397	Instead of changing the course of nature, why not rather change opinions?
1397	Is adultery an offence in the law of nature?
1397	Is alms- giving a virtuous action?
1397	Is he free?
1397	Is he happy in that state?
1397	Is he, like you, agitated with vengeance or compassion, with wrath or repentance?
1397	Is it from a deliberate choice that you follow the standard of one prophet rather than another?
1397	Is it his hand which has overthrown these walls, destroyed these temples, mutilated these columns, or is it the hand of man?
1397	Is it his pride which excites murderous wars, or the pride of kings and their ministers?
1397	Is it his rapacity which robs the husbandman, ravages the fruitful fields, and wastes the earth, or is it the rapacity of those who govern?
1397	Is it not in its pursuit that thou seest me in this sequestered spot?
1397	Is it not the first law of God that man should live?"
1397	Is it not written?
1397	Is it the venality of his decisions which overthrows the fortunes of families, or the corruption of the organs of the law?
1397	Is it you who gave breath to man, that you dare take it from him?
1397	Is luxury a vice in the individual and in society?
1397	Is no other law reasonable?
1397	Is no other law uniform and invariable?
1397	Is no other law universal?
1397	Is not happiness also a precept of the law of nature?
1397	Is not theirs still more contrary to common sense and justice?
1397	Is paternal love a common virtue?
1397	Is pleasure the principal object of our existence, as some philosophers have asserted?
1397	Is the course of the seasons varied?
1397	Is the earth more fruitful, or its inhabitants more happy?
1397	Is the sun brighter?
1397	Is this also a revelation?
1397	It may be asked, why this distinction?
1397	Its precepts are then in action?
1397	Know you not your rights?
1397	May not the oval form of the egg allude to the elipsis of the orbs?
1397	May we not also ask, on the other hand, how can an honest woman consent to reveal them?
1397	Mortal, who despairest of the human race, on what profound combination of facts hast thou established thy conclusion?
1397	My ear, struck with the cries which resounded to the heavens, distinguished these words: What is this new prodigy?
1397	Now I ask the public, what kind of a man is Dr. Priestly?
1397	Now I ask you, sir, What has all this to do with the main question?
1397	Now what is Jupiter?
1397	Now, if man, as is evident, can persuade himself of error, what is the persuasion of man to prove?
1397	Of what import to thy immensity, their distinctions of parties and sects?
1397	On whom shall you wreak vengeance for the faults committed by your own ignorance and cupidity?"
1397	Or have you received them only from the chance of birth, from the empire of education and habit?
1397	Others exclaimed:"Where are the proofs, the witnesses of these pretended facts?
1397	PEOPLE.--And what labor do you perform in our society?
1397	PEOPLE.--Do you govern without reason?
1397	PEOPLE.--How, then, have you acquired these riches?
1397	PRIESTS.--Would you live without gods or kings?
1397	Pleasure, then, is not an evil, a sin, as casuists pretend?
1397	Q. Charity is then nothing but justice?
1397	Q. Dissipation and prodigality, therefore, are vices?
1397	Q. Improbity, therefore, is a sign of false judgment and a narrow mind?
1397	Q. Instruction, then, is indispensable to man''s existence?
1397	Q. Philosophers, then, are fallible?
1397	Q. Probity, then, shows an extension and justice in the mind?
1397	Q. Uncleanliness or filthiness is, then, a real vice?
1397	Requires he groans for hymns, murderers for votaries, a ravaged and desolate earth for his temple?
1397	Say then; how should he, whom you style your common father, receive the homage of his children murdering one another?
1397	Should abstinence and fasting be considered as virtuous actions?
1397	Should modesty be considered as a virtue?
1397	Should weakness and cowardice be considered as vices?
1397	The Bramins stopping short at these words:"How can we admit your doctrine,"said the legislator,"if you will not make it known?
1397	The Mussulman, Christian, Jew, are they not the elect children of God, loaded with favors and miracles?
1397	The legislator then asked:"Have you living witnesses of the facts?"
1397	The moderate and prudent men added:"Supposing all this to be true, why reveal these mysteries?
1397	The murdering of a man is, therefore, a crime in the law of nature?
1397	The world has gone thus for two thousand years; why change it now?"
1397	Then it is not true that the followers of the law of nature are atheists?
1397	Then, taking the sword:"Is this iron,"said the legislator,"softer than lead?"
1397	They are, therefore, really unequal?
1397	To thee, who art guiding stars in their orbits, what are those wormlings writhing themselves in the dust?
1397	True or false, what interest have we in knowing whether the world has existed six thousand, or twenty- five thousand years?
1397	Two strong ones then said:"Why fatigue ourselves to produce enjoyments which we may find in the hands of the weak?
1397	WILL THE HUMAN RACE IMPROVE?
1397	We have an excellent soil, and we are in want of subsistence?
1397	We have forgotten our own infancy, and shall we know the infancy of the world?
1397	What a war?
1397	What are the characters of the law of nature?
1397	What are the reciprocal duties of masters and of servants?
1397	What are those attributes?
1397	What are those virtues?
1397	What blind and perverse delirium disorders the spirits of the nations?
1397	What can more strongly resemble electricity?
1397	What can you expect from this dissension?
1397	What causes have so changed the fortunes of these countries?
1397	What cruel and mysterious scourge is this?
1397	What difference is there between a learned and a wise man?
1397	What difference is there between an ignorant and a silly man?
1397	What do you conclude from all this?
1397	What do you mean be domestic virtues?
1397	What do you mean by the word country?
1397	What does the word nature signify?
1397	What has my book in common with my person?
1397	What have you gained by so many battles and tears?
1397	What is a sin in the law of nature?
1397	What is economy?
1397	What is evil?
1397	What is filial love?
1397	What is good, according to the law of nature?
1397	What is man in the savage state?
1397	What is meant by physical good and evil, and by moral good and evil?
1397	What is meant by the word individual?
1397	What is paternal love?
1397	What is prudence?
1397	What is society?
1397	What is temperance?
1397	What is that blind fatality, which without order and without law, sports with the destiny of mortals?
1397	What is that fundamental principle?
1397	What is that precept?
1397	What is that unjust necessity, which confounds the effect of actions, whether of wisdom or of folly?
1397	What is the law of nature?
1397	What is the reason of it?
1397	What is the result?
1397	What is the true meaning of the word philosopher?
1397	What is the vice contrary to this virtue?
1397	What is this God of justice, who punishes blindness which he himself has made?
1397	What is this apostle of a God of clemency, who preaches nothing but murder and carnage?
1397	What is vice according to the law of nature?
1397	What is virtue according to the law of nature?
1397	What man can answer for the actions of another?
1397	What matters it, said the Christian, whether my ruler breaks or adores images, if he renders justice to me?
1397	What mortal shall dare refuse to his fellow that which nature gives him?
1397	What need have we of knowing what passed five or six thousand years ago, in countries we never heard of, and among men who will ever be unknown to us?
1397	What right has he to impose his creed on us as conqueror and tyrant?
1397	What tyrant ever rendered children responsible for the faults of their fathers?
1397	What worship do they pay to him?
1397	What would be the alarm were the public put in possession of the sequel of this work?
1397	What would be the judgments of his equal and common justice over the real universality of mankind?
1397	Whatever tends to cause death is, therefore, an evil?
1397	When among yourselves disputes arise between families and individuals, how do you reconcile them?
1397	When do they deceive us by ignorance?
1397	When do they deceive us by passion?
1397	When prejudice has once seized the mind, how is it to be dissipated?
1397	When the Gospel says,"Happy are the poor of spirit,"does it mean the ignorant and imprudent?
1397	When the strong has subjected the weak to his opinion, has he thereby aided the cause of truth?
1397	When war, famine and pestilence, have swept away the inhabitants, if the earth remains a desert, is it God who has depopulated it?
1397	When, sinking under famine, the people have fed on impure aliments, if pestilence ensues, is it the wrath of God which sends it, or the folly of man?
1397	Where are those ramparts of Nineveh, those walls of Babylon, those palaces of Persepolis, those temples of Balbec and of Jerusalem?
1397	Where is that divine malediction which perpetuates the abandonment of these fields?
1397	Where is the inconsistency which thou imputest to the justice of heaven?
1397	Where those husbandmen, harvests, flocks, and all the creation of living beings in which the face of the earth rejoiced?
1397	Wherefore are so many cities destroyed?
1397	Whether it was made of nothing, or of something; by itself, or by a maker, who in his turn would require another maker?
1397	Which are the individual virtues?
1397	Which are the principal branches of temperance?
1397	Which is the eighth character?
1397	Which is the fifth character?
1397	Which is the first?
1397	Which is the fourth character?
1397	Which is the last character of the law of nature?
1397	Which is the ninth character?
1397	Which is the second?
1397	Which is the seventh character?
1397	Which is the sixth character?
1397	Which is the third?
1397	Which is the vice contrary to science?
1397	Which is the vice contrary to temperance?
1397	Whither will this quarrel conduct you?
1397	Who can enlighten the ignorance of the weak?
1397	Who can teach the multitude to know their rights, and force their chiefs to perform their duties?
1397	Who, indeed will ever be able to restrain the lust of wealth in the strong and powerful?
1397	Who, then, is the secret enemy that devours us?
1397	Why are these fields, sanctified by the blood of martyrs, deprived of their ancient fertility?
1397	Why did this common father oblige us to believe on a less degree of evidence than you?
1397	Why do you say that activity is a virtue according to the law of nature?
1397	Why do you say that conjugal love is a virtue?
1397	Why do you say that justice is the fundamental and almost only virtue of society?
1397	Why has not this ancient population been reproduced and perpetuated?
1397	Why have those blessings been banished hence, and transferred for so many ages to other nations and different climes?
1397	Why is chastity considered a greater virtue in women than in men?
1397	Why is cleanliness included among the virtues?
1397	Why is economy a virtue?
1397	Why is fraternal love a virtue?
1397	Why is paternal tenderness a virtue in parents?
1397	Why murder and terrify men, instead of instructing and correcting them?
1397	Why so?
1397	Why this unanimity in one case, and this discordance in the other?"
1397	Why, then, do these privileged races no longer enjoy the same advantages?
1397	Why, then, have philosophers called the savage state the state of perfection?
1397	Why, then, have there been moralists who have looked upon it as a virtue and perfection?
1397	Will he forever shut his eyes to the light, and his heart to the admonitions of truth and reason?
1397	Will not my ashes long ere then be mouldering in the tomb?
1397	Will you strike your brothers, your relatives?
1397	Would you not think it a chapter from The Thousand and One Nights?"
1397	Ye Mussulmans, if God chastiseth you for violating the five precepts, how hath he raised up the Franks who ridicule them?
1397	Yes; for that inclination leads naturally to action, and it is for this reason that envy is considered a sin?
1397	You have reckoned simplicity of manners among the social virtues; what do you understand by that word?
1397	You say, p. 18, that the public will expect it from me: Where are the powers by which you make the public speak and act?
1397	You, whose first precept is homicide and war?
1397	and is not egotism contrary to the social state?
1397	and shall justice be rendered by the hands of piracy and avarice?
1397	and what becomes of nobility?
1397	can you suppose that truth has been first discovered to- day, and that hitherto you have been walking in error?
1397	did you carefully examine them?
1397	doth he need your aid?
1397	hast thou then abandoned thy faithful people?
1397	hath human society, since its origin, made no progress toward knowledge and a better state?
1397	have an infidel people then enjoyed the blessings of heaven and earth?
1397	have the heavens changed their laws and the earth its motion?
1397	how are so many sublime energies allied to so many errors?
1397	how has so much glory been eclipsed?
1397	how have so many labors been annihilated?
1397	how long will you mistake the true principles of morality and religion?
1397	if these places are desolate, if these powerful cities are reduced to solitude, is it God who has caused their ruin?
1397	is it thus you revere the Divinity?
1397	is this passionate emotion?
1397	is this what you call governing?
1397	is this wisdom?
1397	know you not that our ancestors conquered this land, and that your race was spared only on condition of serving us?
1397	or, embracing in one glance the history of the species, and judging the future by the past, hast thou shown that all improvement is impossible?
1397	said I, is that the earth-- the habitation of man?
1397	said he,"instructors of nations, is it thus that you have deceived them?"
1397	said they,"because a man and woman ate an apple six thousand years ago, all the human race are damned?
1397	say they, what matters who is our master?
1397	say what do these human insects, which my sight no longer discerns on the earth, appear in thy eyes?
1397	that it is not her cause which you defend, but that of your affections, and your prejudices?
1397	that they destroy the principles of your faith, and overturn the religion of your ancestors?
1397	that those men, more fortunate than you, have the sole privilege of wisdom?
1397	we are not sure of what happens near us, and shall we answer for what happens in the sun, in the moon, or in imaginary regions of space?
1397	what this impious altar, this sacrilegious worship?
1397	when the dream of life is over, what will then avail all its agitations, if not one trace of utility remains behind?
1397	whence proceed such fatal revolutions?
1397	where then is the contradiction which offends thee?
1397	whither have flown those ages of life and abundance?--whither vanished those brilliant creations of human industry?
1397	who can enumerate all the calamities of tyrannical government?
1397	who shall dare to fathom the depths of the Omnipotent?
1397	who will certify what no man comprehends?
1397	why exhaust ourselves in pursuing prey which eludes us in the woods or waters?
1397	why not apply our cares in multiplying and preserving them?
1397	why not collect under our hands the animals that nourish us?
1397	will they not perish soon enough?
1397	with what eye should he view your hands reeking in the blood he hath created?