WHAT SHOULD SOLOMON DO?
»~ The New York World recently proposed to its reader's a singular and fascinat.ing- problem, for the best answers to which it offered prizes. The contest is now closed,* but here is the problem : — Solomon, with his bride>, is taking a. honeymoon trip in an automobile. As they start down a steep hill the chain • snaps and the emergency brake will not work. Solomon can steer the automobile, but cannot stop it. Rounding a sharp curve, where there is a' wall on one side and a precipice on the other, he meets a two-horse carriage, in which' is an elderly couple. Between the carriage and the wall, where he might otherwise pass, is a nurse, with a child in a baby-carriage. Solomon has ten 'seconds in which to decide. What should Solomon do? 1. Should he steer the automobile over - the precipice, killing the bride he promised to protect and himself? 2. Should he run down the nurse and child? 3. Should he daeh into the carriage in ■which are the elderly couple and thus save his bride, himself, and the nurse and Child . What should Solomon do, and why?
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1904, Page 11
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193WHAT SHOULD SOLOMON DO? Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1904, Page 11
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