Labour questions: the Eight Hours' Day, the
Unemployed, the Living Wage, etc., etc. Mr. Gladstone's career. Shall
members of Parliament be paid? Chamberlain's position; ditto for
every statesman in every country, to-day and in all past ages. South
Africa, Rhodes, Captain Jim. The English girl _v._ the French or the
American. Invidious comparisons of every people from every point of
view, physical, moral, intellectual, and aesthetic. Vizetelly.
Vivisection. First love _v._ later love; French marriage system _v._
the English. The corrupt choruses in the Greek dramas (also in modern
burlesque--with the question of the Church and Stage Guild, Zaeo's
back, the County Council, etc.). How to make London beautiful. Fogs.
Bi-metallism. Secondary Education. Volunteer or conscript? Anonymity
in journalism. Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism:
their mutual superiorities, their past and their future. Plato,
Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and all philosophers and philosophies. The
Independent Theatre. The origin of language, Where do the Aryans come
from? Was Mrs. Maybrick guilty? Same question for every great
murderer. The Tichborne case, and every other _cause célèbre_,
including divorce cases. Crime and punishment. Music-hall songs.
Heredity: are acquired qualities inherited? Is tobacco a mistake? Is
drink? Is marriage? Is the high hat? Polygamy; the social evil. Are
the planets inhabited? Is the English concert pitch too high? The
divided skirt. The antiquity of man. Geology: is the story of the
rocks short, or long, or true? Geology _v._ Genesis; Genesis _v._
Kuenen. Was Pope a poet? Was Whitman? Was Poe a drunkard, or Griswold
a liar? Was Hamlet mad? Was Blake? Is waltzing immoral? Is humour
declining? Is there a modern British drama? Corporal punishment in
schools. Compulsory vaccination. What shall we do with our daughters?
or our sons? or our criminals? or our paupers? or ourselves? Female
franchise. Republicanism. Which is the best soap? or tooth-powder? Is
Morris's printing really good? Is the race progressing? Is our navy
fit? Should dynamite be used in war? or in peace? What persons should
be buried in Westminster Abbey? Origin of every fairy-tale. Who made
our proverbs and ballads? Cold baths _v._ hot or Turkish. Home Rule.
Should the Royal Academy be abolished? and who should be the next
R.A.? Should there be an Academy of Literature? or a Channel Tunnel?
Was De Lesseps to blame? Should we not patronise English
watering-places? Should there be pianos in board schools? or
theology? Authors and publishers; artists and authors. Is literature
a trade? Should pauper aliens be admitted? or pauper couples
separated? Bank Holiday. Irving _v._ Tree. The world's politics,
present, future, and even past--retrospective questions being
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