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The aureis. 369is . Is we imported net ther claret stom France, nor fir froin Nomadi, what the nation would save by it '138. When the root yieldeth insufficient nourishment, whether mendo not top the tree to mahe the lower branches thri vetis q. Whether, is our ladies drank sage or baim tea out of Iriss ware, it would be an in supportable nationat calami ty '16o. Whether it be reatly triae that such wine is best as most encou-rages drini ing, i. e. that must be gi ven in the largest dola to produce iis effecti And whether this holds with regard to any other medicine p
161. Whether that trade mould not be accounted most pernicious, where in the balance is most against ust And whether this he not the trade with France δI62. Whether it be not even madness, to encourage trade with a nation that talies nothing of our manufactu ret
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167. Whether the vanity and luxury os a se ought to stand in comis petition with the interest os a nation tI68. Whether nationat wants ought not to be the rule os tradet Andwhether the most pressing wants of the majori ty ought not to be first considered t169. Whether it is possible the country mould he weli improved,
while our heef is exported, and our labourers live upon potatoest 1 o. Is it he resolved that we cannot do without sereign trade, whether, at least, it may not be worth while to consider what branches thereos deserve to he entertained, and hoW far We may be able to carry it on umder our present limitations tI I. What soreign imporis may be necessary, sor clothing and seeding the families of persons not worth above one hundred pounds a yeari And hois many wealthier there are in the hingdom, and what proportionthey bear to the other inhabitanis ti a. Whether trade he not then on a right f i, when soreign commodities are imported in exchange only sor domestic superfluities ti a. Whether the quantities of beef, hutier, wool and leather, export-ed frona this istand, can be rechoned the superfluities of a country, Wherethere are se many natives naked and fami med t17 . Whether it would not he wise se to order our trade, as to exportmanufactures rather than provisions, and of those lacti as employ most
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trade, containing an account of the imporis and exporis of the sorego-
I8o. Whether other methods may not be seund sor supplying the lands, hesides the custom on things imported tI 8 I. Whether any ari or manufacture be so difficuli as the mahing of good laws tI82. Whether our peers and gentiemen are born legislatorsi Or, Whether that faculty be acquired by study and reflectioni I 83. Whether to comprehend the real interest os a people, and themeans to procure it, doth not imply seme fund of knowledge, historical, morai and political, with a faculty of reason improved by learia ing t18 . Whether every enemy to learning be not a Goth J And whether every such Goth among us be not an enemy to the count tI85. Whether, theresere, it would not be an omen of ill presage, adreadsul phaenomenon in the land , is our great men mould take it in theirheads to deride learning and education tI86. Whether on the contrary, it mould not seem worthwhile to erecta mari of literature in this hingdom, under wiser regulations and helter
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discipline than in any other part of Europer And whethor this would notbe an infalli ble means of dra ing men and money in to the hingdom 187. Whether the go verned be not too numerous for the go verning part of our college t And whether it might not he expedient to converti hirty nati ves-places into tWenty sellows ipsi 188. Whether is we had two colleges, there might not spring an use-sul cmulation he tween themt And whether it might not be contrived, soto divide the sellows, scholars and revenues, between both, as that nomember should be a loser there by tI89. Whether ten.thous and pounds well laid o ut, might not bulld a decent college, fit to contain two hundred persons; and whether ille purcha se-money of the chambers, Would not go a good Way to ards defraying the expence tI9O. Where this colloge mould be si tua te li101. Whether in imitation of the Jesu iis at Paris, Who admit protestants to study in their colleges, it may not be right sor us also to admit Roman catholics into our college, Without obliging them to attend cha pel-duties, or catechitas, or divini ty-lectu rest And whether this might notheep money in the hingdom, and prevent the prejudices of a sore igneducation t19et. Whether it is possibie a state mouid not thrive, Whereos the lower part were industrious, and the upper Wiset 193. Whether the collected wissio in os ages and nations be not seundin bookstis . Whether Themistocles his ari os mali ing a litile city, or a litile
people, beco me a great one, be learned any where so weli as in the writ-ings of the ancients 8
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Ne lueris. 3 319s. Whether a wi se state hath any interest nearer heari, than the education of youth t196. Whether the mind, lihe soli, doth not by di suse, grow st iis, and whether reasoning and study be not like stirring and dividing the glebe tI97. Whether an early habit os reflexion, although obtained by speculative sciences, may not have iis use in praetical assairs tI98. Whether even those paris of academicat learning whicli are qui tesorgoiten, may not have improved and enriched the soli, like thoso vegetabies whicli are rat sed, not for thenaseives, but ploughed in sor a dreΩsing of land tI99. Whether it was not an bise professor who first opened the publicschoois at o ord8 Whether this issand liath not been ancient ly famoussor learning ῖ And whether at this day it hath any bet ter chance sor be-ing considerable tabo. Whether we may not with be iter grace sit down and complain, when we have done ali that lies in Our power to hel p ourselves teto I. Whether the gentieman of estate hath a right to he idie and whether he ought not to be the great promoter and director of industry, among his tenanis and ne igh bours teto et . Whether in the cantons of itzerland ali under thirty years of age a re not excluded from their great counciis teto 3. Whether Homer s compendium os education,
would not be a good rule sor modem educators of youth t And whether half the learia ing and study oi these Lingdoms is not u selest, for Want ofa proper deli very and pronunciation being taught in Our schools and colleges ta O . Whether
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eto6. Whether the public is more concerned in any thing than in the procreation os able citigens teto . Whether to the multiplying of human kind, it would not much conduce, is marriages were made with good likingteto8. Whether, is Nomen had no portions, we mouid then see se many unliappy and unfruitsul marriagestgos. Whether the laws be not, according to Arisolle, a mind without appetite, or passion t And consequently without respect of persons ta Io. Suppose a ricli man's son marries a poor man's daughter, suppose also that a poor man's daughter is deluded and debauched by the son ofa rich man , whicli is most to be pilied tet 11. Whether the punishment mould be placed on the seduced or theseducer taret. Whether a promise made besore God and man in the most solemn manner ought to be violated tetis. Whether it was Plato's opinion that for the good of the communi0, rich nould mar Nith rict y de Leg. l. .ri . Whether as seed equalty scattered produceth a goodly harvest, even se an equat distribution of wealth doth not cause a nation to
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Ne aueris. 37setis. Whence is it that Barbs and Arabs are so good horsest And whether in those countries they are not exactly nice in admitting nono but males of a good hind to their mares teti6. What essedis would the fame care produce in familieata I 7. Whether the real seundation sor wealth must not be laid in thonumbers, the frugality and the industry of the peopte t And whether allattempis to enricli a nation by other means, as raising the coin, Rock-jobbing and such aris, are not vain tet I 8. Whether a door ouot not to be mut against ali other methods of gro ing ricli, save only by industry and merit i And whether wealth gotother ise would not he ruinous to the public ta I9. Whether the abuse of hanlis and paper-money is a just objectionagainst the use thereost And whether lach abuse might not ea sily be pre-
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22 . Whether the currency of a credit so weli secured would not beos great ad vant age to our trade and manufactu res t
223. Whether the notes of such public bank would not have a more generat circulation than those of private banks, as being lesi subject tofravds and hagards tet 26. Whether it be not agreed that paper hath in many respects, thea ivantage above coin, as being of more dispalch in paymenis, more ea- si ly transferred, presei Ved, and recovered when lost teta 7. Whether, besides theso ad vantages, there be not an evident ne
no trealare into the kingdom like trade, private wealth must sink as thebanti riseth t And whether whatever causeth industry to fourish and circulate, may not be said to increase our treastire t et29. Whether the ruinous essedis of Mississippi, South-Sea, and fuch schemes, were not owing to an abuse of paper-money or credit, in making it a means for idienesis and gam in g, instead os a motive and help to
asO. Whether the rise of the bank of Amserdam was not purely casual, for the security and dispalch of paymentst And whether the good essects thereos, in supplying the place of coin, and promoting a ready circulation os industry and commerce, may not be a lesibn to us, to dothat by design, whicli others seli upon by chancet 23 I. Whether plenty of smali casti be not absolutely necesiary sorkzeping up a circulation among the people ; that is, whether copper be
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32. Whether that, whicli increaseth the stocli os a nation, he not a means os increasing iis tradet And whether that, whicli increaseth thecurrent credit os a nation, may not be seid to increase iis stoch t233. Whether the credit of the public funds be not a mine of gold to England 8 And whether any step that mould lesien this credit ought not
specie ta I. Whether it be certain, that the quantity of silver in the bank of Vo L. II. C c c Amyterdam f
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Herdam he greater now than at first; but whether it be not certain that there is a greater circulation of industry and extent of trade, more people,ships, houses, and commodities of ali seris, more power by sea and landia 2. Whether money, lying dead in the bank of Amserdam, would nothe as useless as in the minet
2 3. Whether our visibie securi ty in land could he doubted y And whether there bo any thing like this in the bank of Amseriam ret ψέ. Whether it be just to apprehend danger from trusi ing a nationalbank with power to extend iis credit, to circulate notes whicli it shali beselony to counterseit, to receive goods on loans, to purcha se land s, to selialso or aliena te them, and to deal in bilis of e Xchange; when these powCrS are no other than have been trus ed sor many years with the bank of Englan although in truth but a private bank ta s. Whether the objection hom monopolies and an over-gro th of Power, Whicli are made against private banlis, can possibiy hold against anational one tet 6. Whether the evit essests, whicli, os late years have attended pa-
per- money and credit in Europe, did not spring from subscriptions, smares, dividends and stock obbing t2 7. Whether the great eviis attending paper- money in the Britis
plantations of America have not sprung froin the over-rating their land S, and istu ing paper without discretion, and stom the legislators breahingtheir o n rules in favo ur of them lues, thias sacrificing the public to their private benefiit And whether a litile sense and honesty might not ea si lyprevent ali suci, inconveniences ta 8. Whether the subject of Dee-th in hing in religion be not exhaust- cd 8 And whether it be not high time sor our free-thinhers to turn theirthoughis to the in pro vement of their country ta 9. Whether