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sis. Whether is the linen-manufacture were carried on in the other provinces, as weli as in the north, the merchants of Cor , Limerici, and Gal adi, would not soon find the way to Spata Ps2O. Whether the woollen-manufacture of England is not divi ted intoseverat paris or branches, appropriated to particular places, where theyare only, or principally manufactu red; fine cloths in Somersis re, coar in Nori ire, long elis at Exeter, sales at Sudbur ', crapes at Norrvias, lin-Ωys at Mndat, blankeis at Whilno, and so forti, is et 1. Whether the united skili, industry and emulation of many together on the fame work, be not the way to ad vance iit And whether ithad been otherwise possibie sor England, to have carried on her Woollen- manufacture to Q great persection is 22. Whether it would not on many accounts be right, is we observed the fame conrse with respect to our linen-manufacture , and that diapers were made in one town or distriet, damasks in another, meeting in athird, fine wearing linen in a fourth, coarse in a fifth, in another cambriclis, in another thread and stockings, in others stam ped linen, or stripeditnen, or lichings, or dyed linen, of Which last hinds there is Q great a consumption among the sea-faring men os ali nationsts 23. Whether it may not be worth while, to inform our lves of the disserent soris of linen, whicli are in request among disserent peoplet set . Whether we do not yearly consume of French wines about a thousand than more than et ther Sueden or Denmari, and yet, whether those nations pay ready money as We dolsas. Whether it be not a custom for sonae thousandS of Frenchmen togo about the beginning of Marob into Spain, and having tilled the landsand gathered the harvcst os Dain, to return home with money in their Pocheis, abo ut the end of Novem r8
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set 6. Whether os late years our Iriss labourers do not carry on thosam e businest in England, to the great discontent of many theret Butwhether we have not much more rea n than the people of England tobe displea sed at this commerce t 27. Whether, notwithstanding the cam supposed to be brought intoit, any nation is, in truth, a gainer by such trassic is 28. Whether the industry of our people employed in foret gn land,
any city, and iis usefulness, to observe whether there is a circulationthrough the extremities, and whether the people round about a re busyand warm λ333. Whether We had not, se me years since, a manufacture of hais at Athone, and of earthen-ware at Ar loco, and what became of those manufactu rest
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the rivers Rhone and Sone, be not a great magagine, or mari sor in ardcommercet And Wmether me doth not maintain a constant trade With
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I a The aueris.s ψ. Whether me doth not receive and ulter ali those commodities, and rai se a profit stom the distribution thereos, as weli as of her o nmanufactu res, throughout the kingdom of Franceis s. Whether the charge, os mali ing good roads and navigabie riversacrosi the country, Would not be reatly repaid by an inward commerce ts. 6. Whether as our trade and manufactu res increased, magaetines
Jould not he estabit med in proper places, fit ted by their sit uation, near
great roads and naVigable rivers, ta keS or canais, for the ready receptionand distribution of ali foris of commodities, sto in and to the severat paris of the hingdom ; and whether the town of Athlone, sor instance, maynot be fit ly sit ualed sor lacti a magagine, or centre os domestic commerce ts 7. Whether an in ard trade would not cause industry to fourim, and multiply the circulation of our coin, and whether this may not do asweli as multiplying the coin iiself ts 8. Whether the benefits of a domestic commerce a re sufficiently un- derstood and attended to, and whether the cause thereof he not the pre-judiced and narrow way of thin king about gold and silveris 9. Whether there be any other more east and unen vied method of increasing the wealth of a peopte isso. Whether we of this istand are not fio m our peculiar circumstances determined to this very commerce above any other, Dom the number of necessuries and good things that we possess with in Ourseives, stom the e tent and variety of our soli, hom the navigabie rivers and good roadswhich we have or may have, at a lese expence than any peopte in Europe, fiom our great plenty of materia is sor manufactu res, and particularly Domthe restrainis Ive lie under With regard to our soreign tradet
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sset. Whether there be not every year more casti circula ted at thecard-tabies of Diablis, than at ali the Dirs of Irelandiues s. Whether the wealth of a country will not bear proportion to theskill and industry of iis inhabitantsis 3 . Whether soreign imporis that tend to promote industry mould nothe encouraged, and lach as have a tendeno to promote luxury mould not be discouraged isss. Whether the annual balance of trade bet Neen Baldi and Dombe not about seur millions in favour of the former, and yet, Whether Dons be not a gainer by this tradet s56. Whether the generat rute, os determining the profit os a commerce by iis balance, doth nol, like other generat rules, admit os eXception sis 37. Whether it would not be a monstrous folly to import nothing butgold and silver, supposing we might do it, stom every foret gn Pari to vhich we trade t And yet, whether sonae men may not thin k this Dolis hcircumstance a very happy one t358. But whether we do not ali see the ridicule of the mogul's subjedis,
ho talae frona tis nothing but our silver, and bury it under ground , inorder to malae lare thereos against the resurrectionis 39. Whether he must not be a wronglieaded patriol or poIitician, Whose ultimate view was dra Ning money into a country, and Lee ping it theret
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561. Whether it would not be a silly project in any nation, to hope togrow rich by prohibiting the exportation of gold and silveris 62. Whether there can be a greater mist alie in politics, than to me lare the wealth of the nation by iis gold and silveri 363. Whether gold and silver be not a drug, Where they do not promote industry t Whether they be not even the bane and undoing os an
s6 . Whether gold will not cause ei ther industry or vice to solarim tAnd whether a country, where it flowed in without labour, must not bowretched and dissolute like an istand inhabited by buccaneers ts6s. Whether aris and virtve are not lihely to thrive, where money is made a means to industry t But whether money without this would be a
serves to promote industry, be not the real interest os every nation is 67. Whether commodities of ali hinds do not naturalty flow wherethere is the greatest demand 8 Whether the greatest demand sor a thing benot where it is of most use t Whether money, lihe other things, hath notiis proper uset Whether this use be not to circulatet Whether there rethere must not of course be money where there is a circulation of industry ts 68. Whether it is not a great pol ni to know what we would he ait And whether Whole states, as weli as private persons, do not osten fluctu --ate for want of this knowledget 69. Whether gold may not be compared to Sejanus's horse, is we consider iis passage through the worid, and the fate of those nations whichliave been successively posses sed thereost
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s o. Whether means are not so far useful as they answer the end 8 Anawhether, in disserent circumstances, the fame ends are not obta ined by disserent means is r. Is we are a Poor nation, a bound ing With very poor people, Willit not follow, that a far greater proportion of our stoch should be in thesmallest and lowest species, than would suit with Englandrs et . Whether, theresere, it Would not be highly expedient, is our money were coined os peculiar values, best sit ted to the circumstances and
mestic, and that lies with in o ursei vests 3. Whether every man doth not know, and liath not long known, that the want of a mini causeth many other wanis in this hiragdomis . What harm did England sustain abo ut three centuries ago, whensit ver Was coined in this hingdomis s. What harm was it to Spain that her provinces of Naples and Sicil had ali along minis of their ownts 6. Whether it may not be presumed, that our not having a privilege, whicli every other hingdom in the worid e Moys, be not O ing to OUr O nwant of diligence and unanimi ty in solicit ing sor it ts 77. Whether it be not the interest of Englan that we should culti-Vato a domestic commerce among oursolvest And whether it could give them any possibie jealou sy, is our sinati sum os cassa was contrived to go a litile further, is there was a litile more lise in Our markeis, a litile morebuying and selling in Our ops, a liti te bet ter provision sor the baciis annbellies of many soriorn wretches througho ut the towns and villages of
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378. Whether Great-Britain ought not to promote the prosperi ty of her coloni es, by ait mcthods consistent with her o wn t And whether thecolonies them lues ought to wim or aim at it by othersts79. Whether the remotest paris Dom the metropolis, and the lowest of the people, a re not to be regarded as the extremities and capillaries of
the political body t38O. Whether, although the capillary vesseis a re small, yet obstructions in them do not Droduce great chronical di ases t38 I. Whether faculties are not enlarged and improved by exercise t582. Whether the sum of the faculties put into aft, or in other words, the uni ted actiori of a whole peopte doth not constitute the momentum osa state t383. Whether such momentum be not the real stocli or wealth os astate; and whether iis credit he not proportionat thereunto' 58 . Whether in every wi se state the faculties of the mind are not most consideredis 8s. Whether the momentum os a state doth not imply the whole exer-tion os iis faculties, intellectual and corporeat , and whether the lalterwithout the former, could adt in concert ps 86. Whether the divided sorce of men, acting singly, would not be arope of fand 8587. Whether the particular motions of the members of a state, in opposite directions, will not destroy each other, and testen the momentum os the whole ; but Whether they must not conspire to produce a great effecti
588. Whether the ready means to put spirit in to this state, to sorti'
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and increase iis momentum, Would not be a national banli, and plentv of
589. Whether that whicli employs and exeris the force of a communi ty, deserves not to be weli considered and weli understoodisso. Whether the immediate mover, the blood and spiriis, be not money, paper or metal, and whether the foui or Will of the community, whicli is the prime mover that go verns and direcis the whole, be not tholegislaturet s9I. Supposing the inhabitants of a count F quite sun k in noth, oreven fast asseep, whether upon the gradual a aliening and exertion, fissi, of the sensitive and locomotive faculties, nexi os reason and reflection then os justice and piety, the momentum os such country or state, inould not, in proportion thereunto, become stili more and more considerablet sya. Whether that whicli in the growth is last attained, and is the finisti ing persection os a people, be not the sirit thing lost in their deciension ts 93. Whether Orce be not os consequence, as it is exerted; and whether great sorce without great wisdom may not be a nullanceis V . Whether the sorce of a child applied with ari, may not produce greater efiects than that os a giant i And whether a smali stocli in theliands of a wi se state, may not go further, and produce more considerable essects, than immense sums in the hands of a olim ono t59s. Whose Iauit is it is poor beland stili continues poor t