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Updated: May 18, 2025
On my table lay books, penknives, scissors, pliers, and pins, with insect and bird labels, all of which were unsolved mysteries to the native mind. Most of the people here had never seen a pin, and the better informed took a pride in teaching their more ignorant companions the peculiarities and uses of that strange European production a needle with a head, but no eye!
"Our thoughts," he says, "were full of the great unsolved problem of the origin of life a problem which Darwin's 'Origin of Species' left in as much obscurity as ever and we looked to Spencer as the one man living who could give us some clue to it.
Even as it was, the cavern had given back the sounds of my footfalls, multitudinously. The place was awesome, and I would willingly have retraced my steps, and left the mysteries of its solitudes unsolved; only, to do so, meant admitting defeat. Then, a thought came, to try to get a view of the abyss.
In public opinion, the problem as to the freedmen remained unsolved and insoluble. Meanwhile the Virginia black code had been considerably moderated during and after the Revolution; and in particular the previous almost iron-clad prohibition of private manumission had been wholly removed in effect by an act of 1782.
Perhaps my most vivid memories, however, are of the keen young officers conducting drafts, who were so soon to fall in the great attempt at Suvla. The fate of one of these, J.R. Lingard, then in charge of some Lancashire Fusiliers, was one of the unsolved mysteries of the Dardanelles campaign. A brave and popular officer, he was severely wounded on the 21st August.
But the unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might have done, there were so many other things to attend to. The old Beggar must have been very deaf, as he paid no attention whatever to Bruno's eager shouting, but trudged wearily on, never pausing until the child got in front of him and held up the slice of cake.
From those questions alone, from the miracle of their statement, we can see that we have here to do not with the fleeting human intelligence, but with the absolute and eternal. For in those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature.
Why, boy, this place may be out on the blazing desert, and there may be a dozen discouragements every hour, but we've the finest chance, the biggest unsolved problem in engineering that we could possibly have. It's glorious." Tom's eyes glowed. "Go away," grinned Hazelton mischievously, "or I'll catch some of your enthusiasm." "You don't need any of it," Reade retorted laughingly.
I'm treasurer of my father's grocery company but I have no liking for mercantile business. I can give away, but can neither buy nor sell to advantage. I heard a story not long ago that set me thinking." "I told you my story, Quincy, why not tell me yours?" "I will. It's a mystery unsolved, and, I think, unsolvable. But I feel that my vocation will be the solving of mysteries.
Part of the time Jennings faced Amos, who leaned against the fence and whittled a stick, and part of the time he talked to Jennings who leaned back against the fence on his elbows, and studied Amos whittling the rail. Mrs. Jennings at last called them all to dinner, and still the question remained apparently unsolved, though they changed the conversation to crops and the price of wheat.
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