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THΕ QvqκisT was fir si printed in the year one thousand se ven hundredand thirty-five; since whicli time, the face of things is semewhat changed. In this edition, so me alterations have been made. The three paris are publimedin one; so me few Queries are ad ded, and many omitted, particularly, of thola relating to the vietch or plan os a national bank ; whicli it may be time enoughto take again in hand, when the public mali seem dispo sed to make use of suchan expedient. Ι had determine d with myseis never to prefix my nam e to the Querist, but in the last edition was over-ruled by a friend, Who was rem arkablefor pursuing the public interest with as much dilige nce, as others do their own. I apprehend the same censure on this, that Ι incurred Upon another occasion, for med di ing out of my profession. Though to laed the hungry and clothe thenaked, by promoting an honest industry, Will, perhaps, be de emed no improperemptoyment for a clergyman, who stili thinks himself a member of the commonwealth. As the sum os human happinesse is supposed to consist in the goodsos mind, body, and fortune, Ι would fain mahe my studies of me use tomankind, with regard to each of these three particulars, and hope it will not bethought faulty or indecent in any man, of What profession laever, to offer his mite togards improving the manners, health, and prosperi ty of his sellow-crea
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8. Whether the public aim in every weli governed state be not, that cach member, according to his just pretensions and industry, mould have PQ er tu. Whether po er be not referred to action and whether action dothnot follow appetite or will tio. Whether fasti ion doth not create appetites ; and whether the pre- valling will os a nation is not the fami ony11. Whether the current of industry and commerce he not determined
12. Whether it be not owing to custom, that the fami ons are agree- able tra. Whether it may not concern the wisdom of the legislature to interpose in the mal ing of sas hions , and not leave an assair of so great influence, to the management of women and sops, laylors and vin iners ti . Whether rea nable famions are a greater restra int on Deedom than those whicli are unrea nable tis. Whether a generat good taste in a people would not greatly conduce to their thri vingi And whether an uneducated gentry be not thegreatest os nationat eviis tI6. Whether customs and fas hions do not supply the place of reason, in the vulgar of ali rankst Whether, there re, it doth not very muchimpori that they mould be wisely framed ti . Whether the imitating those ne ighbours in Our fami ons, to whomwe bear no likenesi in Our circumstances, he not one cause of distre si tothis nation t
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The querisi. 33318. Whether frugal fashions in the upper rank, and comfortabie living in the lower, be not the means to multiply inhabitanis t19. Whether the bulli of our Iris natives are not hept Dom thri ving, by that cynical content in diri and beggary, whicli they possese to a de-gree beyond any other peopte in Christendom teto. Whether the creating of wants be not the likeliest Way to produce industry in a peoplet And whether, is our peatants were accustomed to eat bees and wear moes, they would not be more industrious ta I. Whether other things being given, as climate, soli, Sc. the wealthbe not proportioned to the industry, and this to the circulation os credit,be the credit circulated or transferred by what marks or tokens see vertet 2. Whether, theresere, lese money, Misely circulating, be not, in esse ', equivalent to more money nowly circulating t Or, Whether, is thecirculation be reciprocatly as the quantity of coin, the nation can be aloser teta. Whether money is to he considered as having an intrinsic value,
oussy suggested by writers t And whether the true idea os money, as lach,
portion, directly as the demand, and reciprocatly as the plenty tas. Whether the term s crown, livre, pound sterling, SQ are not to beConsidered as exponents or denominations of such proportion 8 And whether gold, silver, and paper, are not ticheis or counters for rechoning, recording, and transferring thereost 26. Whether the denominations heing retained, although the bullion Vo L. II. Z et were
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were gone, things might not neverthclest be rated, bought and sold, industry promo ted, and a circulation os commerce maintained t27. Whether an equat rai sing of ali foris of gold, silver, and coppercoin, can have any effect in bringing money in to the Lingdom y Andwhether altering the proportions belween the severat soris, can have any other essest, but multiplying one hind and lessening another, Without any increase of the sum total ξ28. Whether arbitrary changing the denomination os coin, he not apublic cheat tet9. What mahes a wealthy peoplet Whether mines of gold and silverare capable of doing thist And whether the negroes amidst the gold sanda of Africa, are not poor and destitutet so. Whether there be any virtve in gold or silver, other than as theyset peopte at work, or create industry ts 1. Whether it be not the opinion or will of the people, exciting themto industry, that truly enricheth a nation 8 And whether this doth notprincipalty depend on the means sor count in g, transferring, and preservina power, that is, property of ali hinds taet. Whether is there Was no silver or gold in the Lingdom, our trademight not nevertheless supply bills of exchange, sufficient to an fruer thedemands es absentees in England, or et se heret f. Whether current bank-notes may not be dee med moneyῖ Andwhether they a re nota actualty the greater part of the money of this
s . Provided the wheeis move, whether it is not the fame thing, as tothe effect of the machine. be this done by the force of Wind, or water, or animais t
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33. Whether po er to command the industry of others he not realwealthi And whether money be not in truth, ticheis or totiens sor conveying and recording such power, and whether it be of great consequencewhat materials the licheis a re made of ta6. Whether trade, et ther foreigri or domestic, be in truth any morethan this commerce of industry t37. Whether to promote, transfer, and secure this commerce, and this proper ty in human labour, or, in other words, this power,ibe not thesole means of enriching a people, and how far this may be done inde
a 8. Whether it were not wrong to suppose land it self to he wealthi And whether the industry of the peopte is not sirst to he considered, asthat whicli constitutes wealth, whicli malaes everi land and silver to bewealth, ne ither of which would have any value, but as means and mo lives to industry tas. Whether in the wastes of America, a man might not possese twentymiles square of land, and yet want his dirarier, or a coat to his backt o. Whether a fertile lanii, and the industry of iis inhabitants, would not prove inexhausti ble funds of reat wealth, be the counters for conveying and recording thereos What you wili, paper, gold, or silvert 1. Whether a single hint be sufficient to overcome a prejudice t Andwhether even obvious trullis will not somelimes bear repeating t et . Whether is human labour be the true urce of wealth, it doth not
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. Whether the opinion os men, and their industry consequent there-upon, he not the true wealth of Holland, and not the silver supposed tobe deposited in the bank at Amseriam Τ s. Whether there is in truth any such trealare lying deadi Andwhether it be of great consequence to the public, that it mould be reat,
rather than notional t 6. Whether in order to understand the true nature of wealth and commerce, it would not be right to consider a stip's crew cast upon a desert istand, and by degrees forming themselves to businest and clyil lise, while industry hegot credit, and credit moved to industry t47. Whether suci, men would not ali set themselves to work t Whether they would not subsist by the mutuat participation of each other's industry t Whether when one man had in his way procured more than hecould consume, he would not exchange his superfluities to supply his
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si. Whether by hoW much the lese particular solli thinh for themselves, the public he not se much the more obliged to thinh for them isa. Whether Mail gains be not the way to great prosit λ And is our
ing neatly and plenti fully, did not aspire to wealth t
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aris and new branches of commercet
6 . Whether those fame manufactu res whicli England imporis Domother COuntries, may not be admitted hom IretandJ And, is Q, whetheriace, carpeis, and tapestry, three considerable articles of Engliso importa tion, might not find encouragement in beland 8 And whether an acade-my sor design might not greatly conduce to the persecting those manufactu res among USt6s. Whether France and Flandera could have drawn se much money
academies for designingt66. Whether when a room was Once prepared, and modeis in pla ister of Viaris, the annuat expence of such an academy need stand the publicin above two hundred pounds a yeari 67. Whether our linen-manufacture would not find the benefit of this institution 8 And whether there be any thing that mahes us fali mort of the Dulcb, in damastis, diapers, and printed linen, but our ignorance