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38138 | Ought we, then, to consider cheapness as a curse? 38138 What, then, can the unhappy man do? |
38138 | *****"What is competition from the point of view of the workman? |
38138 | And what are the other two workmen to do? |
38138 | But is this the fact? |
38138 | But what if they take to thieving? |
38138 | But why persist in considering the effect of cheapness with a view only to the momentary advantage of the consumer? |
38138 | Can he cultivate the earth for himself? |
38138 | Can he draw water from a spring enclosed in a field? |
38138 | Can he gather the fruits which the hand of God ripens on the path of man? |
38138 | Can he hunt or fish? |
38138 | Can he, dying from the cruel native land where everything is denied him, seek the means of living far from the place where life was given him? |
38138 | Can he, dying of hunger and thirst, stretch out his hands for the charity of his fellow- creatures? |
38138 | Can he, exhausted by fatigue and without a refuge, lie down to sleep upon the pavement of the streets? |
38138 | Does not disorder give birth to poverty, as order and good management give birth to riches? |
38138 | Has the population a limit which it can not exceed? |
38138 | Is it a necessary evil? |
38138 | Is it not the reverse of the fact? |
38138 | Is it not, on the contrary, an irresistible claim upon every human being for protection against suffering? |
38138 | Is not want of combination a source of weakness, as combination is a source of strength? |
38138 | Is the poor man a member of society, or an enemy to it? |
38138 | Is weakness a justification of suffering? |
38138 | It is true the workhouses exist, menacing society with an inundation of beggars-- what way is there of escaping from the cause?... |
38138 | To murder? |
38138 | What is he to do then?" |
38138 | Why should he check the supply, especially as he can throw any loss on the workman whose wages are so pre- eminently liable to rise and fall? |
11224 | ***** Is, then, the difference between the Just and the Expedient a merely imaginary distinction? |
11224 | As it involves the notion of desert, the question arises, what constitutes desert? |
11224 | But does the utilitarian doctrine deny that people desire virtue, or maintain that virtue is not a thing to be desired? |
11224 | But is this danger confined to the utilitarian morality? |
11224 | But is utility the only creed which is able to furnish us with excuses for evil doing, and means of cheating our own conscience? |
11224 | But this something, what is it, unless the happiness of others, or some of the requisites of happiness? |
11224 | Can an appeal be made to the same faculties on questions of practical ends? |
11224 | Does the belief that moral obligation has its seat outside the mind make the feeling of it too strong to be got rid of? |
11224 | He says to himself, I feel that I am bound not to rob or murder, betray or deceive; but why am I bound to promote the general happiness? |
11224 | How can the will to be virtuous, where it does not exist in sufficient force, be implanted or awakened? |
11224 | If my own happiness lies in something else, why may I not give that the preference? |
11224 | In a co- operative industrial association, is it just or not that talent or skill should give a title to superior remuneration? |
11224 | It is true, the question, What does violate the moral law? |
11224 | Or by what other faculty is cognizance taken of them? |
11224 | The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? |
11224 | The medical art is proved to be good, by its conducing to health; but how is it possible to prove that health is good? |
11224 | The question is often asked, and properly so, in regard to any supposed moral standard-- What is its sanction? |
11224 | The question, Need I obey my conscience? |
11224 | What ought to be required of this doctrine-- what conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil-- to make good its claim to be believed? |
11224 | What, for example, shall we say of the love of money? |
11224 | Who shall decide between these appeals to conflicting principles of justice? |
11224 | a question which Mr. Carlyle clenches by the addition, What right, a short time ago, hadst thou even_ to be_? |
11224 | or more specifically, what is the source of its obligation? |
11224 | what are the motives to obey it? |
11224 | whence does it derive its binding force? |
25937 | If you have done, will you leave the house, or shall my servants turn you out? 25937 ''Do n''t,"replied that functionary;"I hope you''ve forgot nothink? |
25937 | ''"Is that all, sir?" |
25937 | ''"Will you redeem the bond?" |
25937 | ''And Dickens, with all_ his_ genius, but whose Men and Women act and talk already after a more obsolete fashion than Shakespeare''s?'' |
25937 | ''How much of this behaviour goes on daily in respectable society, think you? |
25937 | ''I wonder shall History ever pull off her periwig and cease to be court- ridden? |
25937 | Assuming that sixty years ago a Secretary of State was much the same sort of man that he is to- day, what are we to think of this spirited colloquy? |
25937 | Before he could turn to run again a second horseman was on him, and with a grim"Hyun-- Would you?" |
25937 | But is it a genuine delineation of the man himself, of his motives, of the working of his mind in speech and action? |
25937 | But what''s the use? |
25937 | Do you know what a scene it was? |
25937 | In which category are we to place the letters of Keats, including those that have been very recently unearthed by diligent literary excavation? |
25937 | Is it some yet imperial hope That with such change can calmly cope? |
25937 | Is such minute matter- of- fact copying a virtue in the novelist? |
25937 | Is this actually a true account of English thought? |
25937 | London,? 1850. |
25937 | Miss''Melia''s gownds-- have you got them-- as the lady''s maid was to have''ad? |
25937 | Or dread of death alone? |
25937 | Shall we see something of France and England besides Versailles and Windsor? |
25937 | The force which is shaping the future, is it with the Ritualists or with the undogmatical disciples of a purely moral creed? |
25937 | They are mainly irresponsible creatures: how could they be otherwise, when everything depends on the sword, and a woman can not wield it? |
25937 | Turn out this fellow; do you hear me?"'' |
25937 | What has been the effect of this altered situation upon the writer of history at the present time? |
25937 | What has been the upshot and consequence of this Turkish system? |
25937 | What if the extra allowances have really no attraction? |
25937 | What should we all be if we had not one another to check us and to be learned from? |
25937 | What these crimes were he does not say; and how many of us could answer the question off- hand? |
25937 | What will Europe say when you shed torrents of blood on a point of form?'' |
25937 | What, then, are the conclusions which we may draw from this brief survey of the more prominent and typical Indian novels? |
25937 | When his friends urge him to study for the purpose of rising in the service, civil or military, he asks:''What then? |
25937 | Why have these verses made such an effect that they are familiar to all of us, and fresh as when they were first read? |
25937 | Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time? |
25937 | how vexest thou this man?'' |
25937 | or is it not rather a defect arising out of a misunderstanding of the principles of his art? |
27597 | ''He asked me,''says Bentham,[238]''what he could do for me? |
27597 | ''Why not happiness?'' |
27597 | ''Why,''he asked,''were the people miserable in lower Savoy?'' |
27597 | ''[ 409] How, then, are we to draw the line? |
27597 | And what was there to show for it? |
27597 | And why not? |
27597 | And_ how_ do you prove that you desire this result? |
27597 | Are the rules needlessly complex, ambiguous, calculated to give a chance to knaves, or to the longest purse? |
27597 | But can it be adequate? |
27597 | But what corresponds to this in the case of the moral and religious beliefs? |
27597 | But_ why_ do you desire this happiness? |
27597 | Do you know how they make it? |
27597 | Does it work efficiently for its professed ends? |
27597 | How are they to be induced to obey it? |
27597 | How can we decide any of the points which come up for discussion? |
27597 | How do they differ? |
27597 | How is it to be made responsible? |
27597 | How was it that the disciple came to be in such direct opposition to his master? |
27597 | How were those prizes generally obtained? |
27597 | How would the duke of Bedford like to be treated as the revolutionists were treating the nobility in France? |
27597 | If they would not reward their friends, he argued, why should he take up their cause by defending Christianity? |
27597 | If we escaped for the time, could we permanently resist the whole power of Europe? |
27597 | If''motives''can not be properly called good or bad, is there, he asks, nothing good or bad in the man who on a given occasion obeys a certain motive? |
27597 | In what parts? |
27597 | Is it worked in the interests of the nation, or of a special class, whose interests conflict with those of the nation? |
27597 | Is this not self- contradictory? |
27597 | It clearly enables the best man to win, for is he not himself the best man? |
27597 | Must the two principles, then, always conflict? |
27597 | Should a wife be allowed to give evidence against her husband? |
27597 | Should a witness be cross- examined? |
27597 | Should his evidence be recorded? |
27597 | THEORY What theory corresponds to this practical order? |
27597 | The argument raises the wider question, What are the true limits of legislative interference? |
27597 | The naïf expression of this doctrine by a great borough proprietor,''May I not do what I like with my own?'' |
27597 | The problems are:''what securities can be taken for the truth of evidence?'' |
27597 | The result of reading some histories is to raise the question: how people on the other side came to be such unmitigated fools? |
27597 | There are, he says,[462] three great questions: What government is for the good of the people? |
27597 | Therefore, all that is wanted is this distribution, and Mill''s first problem, What government is for the good of the people? |
27597 | This oddly omits the more obvious question, how can you be sure that your happiness will be promoted by the greatest happiness of all? |
27597 | This raises the question: What is the meaning of''that''? |
27597 | We may therefore in this case entirely separate the two questions: what leads men to think? |
27597 | What are the desirable properties of a''lot of punishment''? |
27597 | What are the''effects''of a law against robbery? |
27597 | What community? |
27597 | What generally makes a man lie, and how is lying to be made unpleasant? |
27597 | What if the two criteria differ? |
27597 | What is its relation to the desire for happiness? |
27597 | What is the church of England? |
27597 | What is the logical process implied? |
27597 | What is the process of verification? |
27597 | What is the use of you? |
27597 | What motives, then, should be strengthened or checked? |
27597 | What moves desire? |
27597 | What was required to escape from it? |
27597 | What, then, is an''intuition''? |
27597 | What, then, was the revelation made to the Benthamites, and to what did it owe its influence? |
27597 | Who was''Partizan''? |
27597 | Why did they not accept the means for producing the greatest happiness of the greatest number? |
27597 | Why not appeal to Utility at once? |
27597 | Why should that help be rejected? |
27597 | Why were they imposed upon by such obvious fallacies? |
27597 | Why, then, did Bentham''s message come upon his disciples with the force and freshness of a new revelation? |
27597 | Why, then, does Bentham omit the other questions? |
27597 | Why, then, should they have different spheres? |
27597 | [ 245] How, thought Bentham, can utility be dangerous? |
27597 | [ 401] What is the inference as to the son''s disposition in either case? |
27597 | [ 473] What is the''best''government? |
27597 | and what conclusions will they reach? |
27597 | and''what rules can be given for estimating the value of evidence?'' |
27597 | or rather, how would he answer them? |
27597 | or the defendant to give evidence about his own case? |
25788 | ''If it is asked, Why do we give names in pairs? |
25788 | ''Natural theology,''as it was called, might reveal a contriver, but could it reveal a judge or a moral guide? |
25788 | ''The sole question is,''says Malthus,[261]''what is this principle? |
25788 | ''[ 228] How, precisely, does this modify the theory? |
25788 | ''[ 329] Why''not''and''but''? |
25788 | ''[ 345] How should they not be if the greatest happiness of the greatest number be the legitimate aim of all legislation? |
25788 | ''[ 535] As J. S. Mill naturally asks,''How is it possible to treat of belief without including in it memory and judgment?'' |
25788 | ''[ 547] Why does the chapter come in this place and in this peculiar form? |
25788 | ''[ 579] How, then, is this view to be reconciled with the unreserved admission of''utility''as the''criterion''of right and wrong? |
25788 | ''[ 617] Does religion, then, stimulate our obedience to the code of duty to man? |
25788 | ''[ 99] Why should not the people be trusted to judge for themselves in politics? |
25788 | Are they''ideas''or''sensations''or qualities of the objects? |
25788 | But does he establish or abandon his main proposition? |
25788 | But how does the argument apply to facts? |
25788 | But is it clear that a majority will even desire what is good for the whole? |
25788 | But what more can we say? |
25788 | But what precisely is this''natural level?'' |
25788 | But when is conduct''the same''? |
25788 | But why distinguish vice from misery? |
25788 | But why should we not suppose with Godwin a change of character which would imply prudence and chastity? |
25788 | Can observation of nature reveal to us a supernatural world?'' |
25788 | Can we discover heaven and hell as we discovered America? |
25788 | Could that value be ascribed to''additional labour actually laid out''? |
25788 | Could they shift the burthen upon other shoulders or not? |
25788 | Did a man foresee evil consequences and disregard them? |
25788 | Did he neglect to consider them? |
25788 | Does he not constantly slay the virtuous and save the wicked? |
25788 | Does he not make men fragile and place them amidst pitfalls? |
25788 | Does it amount to more than the obvious statement that prudence and foresight are desirable and are unfortunately scarce? |
25788 | Does not a real evasion lurk under the phrase''tendency''? |
25788 | Elsewhere we have the problem, How does one association exclude another? |
25788 | From a scientific point of view, the ethical problem raises the wide questions, What are the moral sentiments? |
25788 | He is skilful, we may grant, but is he benevolent or is he moral? |
25788 | He then asks, What is the origin of this belief, and what, therefore, is the logical warrant for its validity? |
25788 | How are the different''checks''related? |
25788 | How are we to explain the discrepancy? |
25788 | How can this be done? |
25788 | How does the logical terminology express these''clusters''and''trains''? |
25788 | How from sensations do we get what Berkeley called''outness''? |
25788 | How is this to be accomplished? |
25788 | How will the resulting strain affect the relations of the two remaining classes, the labourers and the capitalists? |
25788 | How, from a theory of pure selfishness, are we to get a morality of general benevolence? |
25788 | How, indeed, from the purely empirical or scientific base, do you deduce any moral attributes whatever? |
25788 | How, it might have been asked, do you explain James Mill? |
25788 | How, then, do they come to coalesce into an apparently continuous stream? |
25788 | How, then, is the moral law related to theology? |
25788 | If I am good to my old mother when she can no longer nurse me, am I not guilty of a similar folly? |
25788 | If I can measure the''sacrifice,''can I measure the''utility''which it gains? |
25788 | If I love a man because he is useful and continue to love him when he can no longer be useful, am I not misguided? |
25788 | If an association actually_ is_ a truth, what is the difference between right and wrong associations? |
25788 | If the Justice of the Peace can not fix the rate of wages, what does fix them? |
25788 | If the descendants of Englishmen increase at a certain rate in America, why do they not increase equally in England? |
25788 | If the governing classes were ready to reform abuses, why should they be made unable to govern? |
25788 | If value is created by labour, ought not''labour''to possess what it makes? |
25788 | If, in any case, we accept this explanation, does not the theory become a''truism,''or at least a commonplace, inoffensive but hardly instructive? |
25788 | If, then, we ask, Who is a good man? |
25788 | In respect to morality, is he not simply indifferent? |
25788 | In what way is the existence of such action to be reconciled with this doctrine? |
25788 | Is it some obscure and occult cause? |
25788 | Is not conduct vicious which causes misery,[232] and precisely because it causes misery? |
25788 | Is this consistent with his Utilitarianism? |
25788 | Is this really Mill''s case? |
25788 | Malthus''s ultimate criterion is always, Will the measure make people averse to premature marriage? |
25788 | May they not wish to sacrifice both other classes and coming generations to their own instantaneous advantages? |
25788 | Or did he really startle the world by clothing a commonplace in paradox, and then explain away the paradox till nothing but the commonplace was left? |
25788 | Ricardo may expound the science accurately; and, if so, we have to ask, What are the right ethical conclusions? |
25788 | Shall we not have such a catastrophe as the reign of terror? |
25788 | Shall we, then, give up a belief in causation? |
25788 | Supply and demand? |
25788 | The question is, What laws can we assign which will determine the process of composition? |
25788 | The questions, How do ideas originate? |
25788 | The very best event he could anticipate--''and what must the state of things be, if an Englishman and a Whig calls such an event the very best?'' |
25788 | Variations of supply and demand cause fluctuations in the price; but what finally determines the point to which the fluctuating prices must gravitate? |
25788 | Was it safe to teach the Bible without the safeguard of authorised interpretation? |
25788 | Was not the disproof real? |
25788 | Was population increasing or decreasing? |
25788 | Was the church catechism to be imposed or not? |
25788 | Was this the case of Malthus? |
25788 | We follow the process by which one wave propagates another; but there is still the question, What ultimately fixes the normal level? |
25788 | We have omitted''motive''and come to the critical question, How, after all, is the moral code to be enforced? |
25788 | We have the problem of the''criterion''( What is the distinction between right and wrong?) |
25788 | We have to consider the problem, What determines the distribution as between the capitalist and the labourer? |
25788 | Were the consequences altogether beyond the powers of reasonable calculation? |
25788 | Were the landlords, the farmers, or the labourers directly interested? |
25788 | What are the checks? |
25788 | What are the motives which make men count the happiness of others to be equally valuable with their own? |
25788 | What are the''laws''of association? |
25788 | What effect has this upon the theory of the market itself? |
25788 | What especially is meant by''moral''in this connection? |
25788 | What he pointed out was that such a rate must somehow be stopped; and his question was, how precisely will it be stopped? |
25788 | What is meant by''true''or''false,''as distinguished from real and unreal? |
25788 | What is the combining principle which can weld together such a mass of hostile and mutually repellent atoms? |
25788 | What is the real working of the system? |
25788 | What motives, then, can be derived from such knowledge of the Deity as is attainable from the''Natural theology''argument? |
25788 | What place is left for any supernatural intervention? |
25788 | What precisely is meant by this order? |
25788 | What was the philosophy congenial to Conservatism? |
25788 | What''circumstances''can be the same in all good governments in all times and places? |
25788 | What, after all, is a proposition? |
25788 | What, however, determines the share actually received? |
25788 | What, then, corresponds to the''box''? |
25788 | What, then, he might ask, are''time''and''space''? |
25788 | What, then, is a man''s proper share? |
25788 | What, then, is precisely meant in this case by the supply and demand? |
25788 | What, then, is the difference between the two states of mind? |
25788 | What, then, is the meaning of the general or abstract symbols employed in the process? |
25788 | What, then, is the principle? |
25788 | What, then, was the cause of the anarchy? |
25788 | What, then, was the cause? |
25788 | What, then, was the view really taken by the Utilitarians of these underlying problems? |
25788 | Where, then, are we to look? |
25788 | Who really gained or suffered by the protection of corn? |
25788 | Who really paid? |
25788 | Why did he not see this? |
25788 | Why then, it may be asked, should not Hazlitt take the position of an improver and harmoniser of the doctrine rather than of a fierce opponent? |
25788 | Why, then, distinguish the''check''as something apart from the instinct? |
25788 | Why? |
25788 | Will he also desire, it may be asked, to make use of it? |
25788 | Will it not multiply indefinitely? |
25788 | Will not the selfishness lead the actual majority at a given moment to plunder the rich and to disregard the interests of their own successors? |
25788 | Will not the strongest take the share of the weakest? |
25788 | Will they not, on your own principles, proceed to confiscation? |
25788 | Will this Being be expected to approve useful or pernicious conduct? |
25788 | Would he not be the basest of men if he did not save his country at any cost? |
25788 | [ 182] What, then, alienated Cobbett? |
25788 | [ 227] What, he asked, do you understand by a''tendency''when you admit that the tendency is normally overbalanced by others? |
25788 | [ 233] Could he logically call them vicious? |
25788 | [ 376] Not only is capital labour, but fermentation is labour, or how can we say that all value is proportioned to labour? |
25788 | [ 592] What is the''base''thing which Fletcher would not do to save his country? |
25788 | [ 593] What, then, does the love of virtue''for its own sake''come to? |
25788 | a mysterious interference of heaven,''inflicting barrenness at certain periods? |
25788 | and Sidmouth and Eldon to be converted to a sense of its duties? |
25788 | and how are they combined so as to form the actual state of consciousness? |
25788 | and the problem of the''moral sentiments''( What are the feelings produced by the contemplation of right and wrong?). |
25788 | and, What functions do they discharge in regard to the society or to its individual members? |
25788 | or''a cause open to our researches and within our view?'' |
25788 | or, in any case, as supplying the ultimate principle of association, do they not require investigation? |
25788 | or, in the Utilitarian language, What is the''sanction''of morality? |
29917 | ''All- strengthening, all- sustaining Deity, Diffused throughout the infinite, abides, Dwells and upholds:--then, haply, dwells in thee? |
29917 | ''And do n''t I care for your soul, James?'' |
29917 | ''And doth this sadden only, or dismay? |
29917 | ''Has the word Duty no meaning? |
29917 | ''If the whole body were an eye, where,''asks St. Paul,''were the hearing? |
29917 | ''What art thou? |
29917 | ''What better philosophical status has vitality than aquosity?'' |
29917 | ''What,''he asks,''does this fact imply?'' |
29917 | ''What,''he asks,''is the foundation of all conclusions from experience?'' |
29917 | ''Wouldst thou, if haply so thou mayst, advance That blessed consummation? |
29917 | ''Yet since all good is fruit of love, and love Worketh no ill, how still doth ill abound? |
29917 | A volition is an operation of the mind, is it not? |
29917 | And from thy native slough of sensual mire, Is''t to the mark of thine own purity Thy loftier aims and holier hopes aspire? |
29917 | And is it not evident that non- existent ideas can not have called real ideas into existence? |
29917 | And may we not with good reason congratulate ourselves on this result of our investigations? |
29917 | And what are myriads of lives in comparison with a regenerate-- what violation of the most solemn engagements in comparison with a united, people? |
29917 | And what though it be only the most thorough- paced Utilitarians who go these extreme lengths? |
29917 | And when by harrowing pang thine heart is wrung, Is''t for self- aid thy wandering eyes inquire, Heavenward, at length, in fervid suppliance flung? |
29917 | And wherefore yet delayeth the reprieve Of Love, that doth not willingly afflict Its children, neither wantonly aggrieve? |
29917 | And wherefore? |
29917 | And why should not the power in question be so credited? |
29917 | And yet what poet would change conditions with the lark? |
29917 | And, if credited so far, why not still further? |
29917 | Are any worthier? |
29917 | Are grapes upon the bramble borne, or doth The fig bear olive berries? |
29917 | Besides, does man, in order to believe himself free, require more freedom than his Maker? |
29917 | Bethink thee-- is''t self- reverence that o''erawes Thy prostrate soul, and from thy faltering tongue, Subdued, involuntary homage draws? |
29917 | But can there be a better proof that utilitarian principles are unsound than that this should be a legitimate deduction from them? |
29917 | But how can we pretend to know for how long a season such may continue to be the divine pleasure? |
29917 | But how, being so admirable, can it be immoral? |
29917 | But how, by goodness so transcending, conjoined with immeasurable might, can the co- existence of evil be tolerated? |
29917 | But if so, what else is Positivism than another form of that very metaphysicism which it condemns? |
29917 | But is this inability a matter to lament over? |
29917 | But of that which is not due, how can payment be rightfully insisted upon? |
29917 | But on such conditions, how can human volitions really be free? |
29917 | But this once lost, how recoverable? |
29917 | But to what purport could premonished Love A system twined with mutual suffering weave, When but a word all suffering would remove? |
29917 | But what if there be no such laws? |
29917 | But what shadow of pretext is there for treating an hitherto unvaried course of events as necessarily invariable? |
29917 | But whence and why these divergencies? |
29917 | But which are the ideas whereof this can be said? |
29917 | But why are they so prized? |
29917 | But, indeed, is there any one conceivable situation in life in which a positive rule can be laid down as to the course which men will follow? |
29917 | By what law? |
29917 | By what possibility, then, can it suddenly produce modifications sufficiently conspicuous to mark off a new species? |
29917 | Can a hybrid growth Arise spontaneous from unmingled seed? |
29917 | Can aught the gracious purpose interdict Of Him, whose piercing eye, whose boundless sway, No cloud can dim, no barrier restrict? |
29917 | Can finite bonds confine the Infinite? |
29917 | Can it have been seriously said that it is impossible for us to think of the sky without thinking simultaneously of the sun which illuminates the sky? |
29917 | Can means impure Omnipotence befit, And clog the range of its solicitude? |
29917 | Can there be better proof that utility and morality are not identical, but two absolutely distinct things? |
29917 | Canst thou show Twin waters, sweet and bitter, issuing both From the same fountain? |
29917 | Did the fact of its being for their advantage to do this warrant their doing it? |
29917 | Does he mean that a train of thought can not commence with place without terminating with weight? |
29917 | Doth not the sun outshine the satellite? |
29917 | For how can there be perception without a percipient? |
29917 | For to take redness as an example; how does the sensation of it or of any other colour arise? |
29917 | For what, after all, does it imply? |
29917 | For whence was Vice derived? |
29917 | For why do we ever believe anything that anyone says? |
29917 | Freewill, then, being an indisputable reality, how can it be reconciled with foreknowledge? |
29917 | Grieves it that He, whose follower thou art, Rules not supreme with unresisted sway? |
29917 | Has it been observed, then, that suicides bear, we will not say an invariable, but anything like a definite proportion to population? |
29917 | Hast thou the art to add, by taking thought, One cubit to thy stature? |
29917 | Have, then, individuals incurred any such obligation? |
29917 | How are we to account for such amazing inconsistencies in an exposition of one of the greatest of philosophers? |
29917 | How can his will be free, if that will be moulded and shaped by circumstances over which he has no control? |
29917 | How can it be, when, as frequently happens, you have not the smallest idea of what it is you are saying or playing? |
29917 | How, consistently with the theory, is it possible they should? |
29917 | How, they may naturally ask, is it to be expected that sickness should be cured unless properly treated? |
29917 | How, when the creature of His wrath replies With feeble wail and inarticulate moan, The sighing of that contrite heart despise? |
29917 | How-- for it is merely the old puzzle over again-- how can foreknowledge be reconciled with freewill? |
29917 | If not, what is the bondage under which we groan? |
29917 | If so, on what was that right founded? |
29917 | If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?'' |
29917 | If there be certain determinate lines of conduct which men will infallibly pursue throughout all succeeding generations, how can men be free agents? |
29917 | Improbable as these suppositions may be, who that has not been taken into counsel by his Creator can presume to say that they may not be correct? |
29917 | In that''Logic- mill of thine''hast thou''an earthly mechanism for the Godlike itself, and for grinding out Virtue from the husks of Pleasure? |
29917 | In these circumstances, had her countrymen a right to insist on her immolation? |
29917 | In this was tutelar prevision shown? |
29917 | In what, then, does the compensation consist? |
29917 | Is any object, however worthy, to be pursued regardless of all collateral considerations? |
29917 | Is not Germany likely to turn Kiel to far better account than Denmark ever did or could have done? |
29917 | Is not faith in such a providence not simply not irrational, but the direct result of a strictly inductive process? |
29917 | Is not such a being worthy to be looked up to, and confided in, and adored and loved as a superintending providence? |
29917 | Is what we call Duty no divine messenger and guide, but a false, earthly fantasm, made up of Desire and Fear?'' |
29917 | Is''t haply that with love a rival strove? |
29917 | May I, without presumption, hazard a conjecture as to the sort of fabric that might have arisen, if he had steadily prosecuted his original design? |
29917 | May naught else serve to fan the stagnant air? |
29917 | Must captive flame earth''s quaking surface rend, Or seek escape in lava flood? |
29917 | Must havoc''s mad typhoon perforce descend? |
29917 | Nay, what student or philosopher would? |
29917 | Need was there, by austere experiment, To test the frailty and the fall foreknown Of man, beneath o''erwhelming burthen bent? |
29917 | Of how much else,''for a pure moral nature, is not the loss of Religious Belief the loss?'' |
29917 | Of the recited enormities, were not some, steps to the regeneration of France-- others, to the unifaction of Germany? |
29917 | Or is it not, at all events, open to their divine promulgator to suspend their operation at his pleasure? |
29917 | Or that, the progress of His grace to thwart, Satanic might the host of hell arrays? |
29917 | Or,''is there no God? |
29917 | Our idea of idea itself, from what sensible impression is that derived? |
29917 | Shall coward lips the word of life suppress? |
29917 | Should He not restore A cleansed heart within them, and renew An upright spirit? |
29917 | Should not all Freely, alike, his nurturing guidance share? |
29917 | Should we like the chances to be equal whether we should desire distress to be alleviated or aggravated? |
29917 | Should we then prefer that there were no such reasons? |
29917 | Simply because it was their interest, was it also their right? |
29917 | The oracle vouchsafed from Heaven disguise? |
29917 | The question, Why are not new species continually produced? |
29917 | Though man, by choice of ill, must needs offend, Need God do ill that good may come of it? |
29917 | Thus is it that a parent''s care purveys His bounty, and, exacting rigorously The price in tears, each boon''s full cost defrays? |
29917 | Thus, with vain thrift withholding the decree, That from his treasury''s exhaustless store To all could grant unbought felicity? |
29917 | Was there then need that prescience should try, By ordeal pitiless, assured event, Disclosed beforehand to prophetic eye? |
29917 | Was this then her duty? |
29917 | What but that strength is wanting to fulfil His scheme of mercy? |
29917 | What censures, then, can I have in reserve to countervail such praises? |
29917 | What if, on the showing of Mr. Buckle himself and of his associates, there neither are nor can be? |
29917 | What is it that here imparts the impulse and exercises the control? |
29917 | What man amongst thy fellows hast thou known Who, if his son ask fish, will jeeringly Give him a serpent, or for bread a stone? |
29917 | What possibility is there of constructing a science of history, when history supplies no materials for either foundation or superstructure? |
29917 | What smallest evidence have we of any connection between the volitions and the other acts? |
29917 | What the liberty wherewith we long to be made free? |
29917 | What then is the cause? |
29917 | What would be the good of the doctor''s coming unless he prescribed judiciously? |
29917 | What, then, is the connexion between them which causes one to be inferred from the other? |
29917 | Whence derived? |
29917 | Where, then, is the boast of virtue? |
29917 | Why but because we have learnt by experience that, when people have no apparent motive for lying, they commonly do speak the truth? |
29917 | Why imagine that into the newly formed hydro- nitrogenised oxide of carbon a something called vitality entered and took possession? |
29917 | Why is it, then, that every one has a right to fulfilment of engagements, to have faith kept with him, to have promises observed? |
29917 | Why would he not? |
29917 | Will not the effects of any given cause vary with the changes in the circumstances in which the cause acts? |
29917 | With unloaded dice there would be nothing strange in double- six being thrown once; but, if once, why not twice running? |
29917 | With what intent Placed where perpetual hindrances exhaust Thy wasted strength, in baffled effort spent? |
29917 | Would it be well for us that our being starved or surfeited should make no difference in our wish to feed, or our willingness to fast? |
29917 | Would there be a chorus of applause from the Institute of Architects, and favourable notices in the newspapers of this profound wisdom? |
29917 | Would we have all these things reversed? |
29917 | Would we have our wishes to be independent of reason, and adrift before irrational caprice? |
29917 | Wouldst thou speed The lingering hour of Earth''s deliverance? |
29917 | Yet, if in His despite creation still In thraldom groan and travail-- what remains? |
29917 | _ King Henry._ Are these things, then, necessities? |
29917 | and body is matter, is it not? |
29917 | and ere Effete society new structure raise, Must dearth or pestilence the ground prepare? |
29917 | and hast thou, Or such as thou, Nature''s whole fabric wrought? |
29917 | and how can a doctor be expected to attend unless he be asked? |
29917 | and how can it be properly treated without a doctor? |
29917 | and if twice, why not three, four, or a million times running, provided that the thrower''s strength held out so long? |
29917 | and will he not more certainly prescribe judiciously if his judgment be guided by special interposition of divine grace? |
29917 | and will not German ascendency be abundant compensation for Danish decadence? |
29917 | how other than virtuous? |
29917 | how, rather, ever acquirable? |
29917 | not, what they implore Reversing, and restraining, lest they do The good they would,--constraining them withal To do the evil they would fain eschew? |
29917 | or how consciousness without a conscious entity? |
29917 | or, at best, an absentee God, sitting idle ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of His universe, and_ seeing_ it go?'' |
29917 | why not with competence to form a man''s or an eagle''s eye? |