,the ,querist  by  ,george ,berkley     
#agce    ,the ,querist ,containing      
,several ,queries ,proposed to the      
,consideration of the ,public      ,part
 ,i     ,query #a4  ,whether there ever 
was1 is1 or will be1 an industrious     
nation poor1 or an idle rich8  #b4 ,qu4 
,whether a people can be called poor1   
where the common sort are well fed1     
clothed1 and lodged8  #c4 ,qu4 ,whether 
the drift and aim of every wise ,state  
should not be1 to encourage industry in 
its members8 ,and whether those who     
employ neither heads nor hands for the  
common benefit deserve not to be        
expelled like drones out of a           
well-governed ,state8  #d4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the four elements1 and man's labour    
therein1 be not the true source of      
wealth8  #e4 ,qu4 ,whether money be not 
only so far useful1 as it stirreth up   
industry1 enabling men mutually to      
participate the fruits of each other's  
labour8  #f4 ,qu4 ,whether any other    
means1 equally conducing to excite and  

circulate the industry of mankind1 may  
not be as useful as money4  #g4 ,qu4    
,whether the real end and aim of men be 
not power8 ,and whether he who could    
have everything else at his wish or will
 would value money8  #h4 ,qu4 ,whether  
the public aim in every well-govern'd   
,state be not that each member1         
according to his just pretensions and   
industry1 should have power8  #i4 ,qu4  
,whether power be not referred to       
action2 and whether action doth not     
follow appetite or will8  #aj4 ,qu4     
,whether fashion doth not create        
appetites2 and whether the prevailing   
will of a nation is not the fashion8    
#aa4 ,qu4 ,whether the current of       
industry and commerce be not determined 
by this prevailing will8  #ab4 ,qu4     
,whether it be not owing to custom that 
the fashions are agreeable8  #ac4 ,qu4  
,whether it may not concern the wisdom  
of the legislature to interpose in the  
making of fashions2 and not leave an    
affair of so great influence to the     

management of women and fops1 tailors   
and vintners8  #ad4 ,qu4 ,whether       
reasonable fashions are a greater       
restraint on freedom than those which   
are unreasonable8  #ae4 ,qu4 ,whether a 
general good taste in a people would not
 greatly conduce to their thriving8 ,and
 whether an uneducated gentry be not the
 greatest of national evils8  #af4 ,qu4 
,whether customs and fashions do not    
supply the place of reason in the vulgar
 of all ranks8 ,whether1 therefore1 it  
doth not very much import that they     
should be wisely framed8  #ag4 ,qu4     
,whether the imitating those neighbours 
in our fashions1 to whom we bear no     
likeness in our circumstances1 be not   
one cause of distress to this nation8   
#ah4 ,qu4 ,whether frugal fashions in   
the upper rank1 and comfortable living  
in the lower1 be not the means to       
multiply inhabitants8  #ai4 ,qu4        
,whether the bulk of our ,irish natives 
are not kept from thriving1 by that     
cynical content in dirt and beggary     

which they possess to a degree beyond   
any other people in ,christendom8  #bj4 
,qu4 ,whether the creating of wants be  
not the likeliest way to produce        
industry in a people8 ,and whether1 if  
our peasants were accustomed to eat beef
 and wear shoes1 they would not be more 
industrious8  #ba4 ,qu4 ,whether other  
things being given1 as climate1 soil1   
etc41 the wealth be not proportioned to 
the industry1 and this to the           
circulation of credit1 be the credit    
circulated or transferred by what marks 
or tokens soever8  #bb4 ,qu4 ,whether1  
therefore1 less money swiftly           
circulating1 be not1 in effect1         
equivalent to more money slowly         
circulating8 ,or1 whether1 if the       
circulation be reciprocally as the      
quantity of coin1 the nation can be a   
loser8  #bc4 ,qu4 ,whether money is to  
be considered as having an intrinsic    
value1 or as being a commodity1 a       
standard1 a measure1 or a pledge1 as is 
variously suggested by writers8 ,and    

whether the true idea of money1 as such1
 be not altogether that of a ticket or  
counter8  #bd4 ,qu4 ,whether the value  
or price of things be not a compounded  
proportion1 directly as the demand1 and 
reciprocally as the plenty8  #be4 ,qu4  
,whether the terms crown1 livre1 pound  
sterling1 etc41 are not to be considered
 as exponents or denominations of such  
proportion8 ,and whether gold1 silver1  
and paper are not tickets or counters   
for reckoning1 recording1 and           
transferring thereof8  #bf4 ,qu4        
,whether the denominations being        
retained1 although the bullion were     
gone1 things might not nevertheless be  
rated1 bought1 and sold1 industry       
promoted1 and a circulation of commerce 
maintained8  #bg4 ,qu4 ,whether an equal
 raising of all sorts of gold1 silver1  
and copper coin can have any effect in  
bringing money into the kingdom8 ,and   
whether altering the proportions between
 the kingdom several sorts can have any 
other effect but multiplying one kind   

and lessening another1 without any      
increase of the sum total8  #bh4 ,qu4   
,whether arbitrary changing the         
denomination of coin be not a public    
cheat8  #bi4 ,qu4 ,whether1             
nevertheless1 the damage would be very  
considerable1 if by degrees our money   
were brought back to the ,english value 
there to rest for ever8  #cj4 ,qu4      
,whether the ,english crown did not     
formerly pass with us for six shillings8
 ,and what inconvenience ensued to the  
public upon its reduction to the present
 value1 and whether what hath been may  
not be8  #ca4 ,qu4 ,what makes a wealthy
 people8 ,whether mines of gold and     
silver are capable of doing this8 ,and  
whether the negroes1 amidst the gold    
sands of ,afric1 are not poor and       
destitute8  #cb4 ,qu4 ,whether there be 
any vertue in gold or silver1 other than
 as they set people at work1 or create  
industry8  #cc4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not 
the opinion or will of the people1      
exciting them to industry1 that truly   

enricheth a nation8 ,and whether this   
doth not principally depend on the means
 for counting1 transferring1 and        
preserving power1 that is1 property of  
all kinds8  #cd4 ,qu4 ,whether if there 
was no silver or gold in the kingdom1   
our trade might not1 nevertheless1      
supply bills of exchange1 sufficient to 
answer the demands of absentees in      
,england or elsewhere8  #ce4 ,qu4       
,whether current bank notes may not be  
deemed money8 ,and whether they are not 
actually the greater part of the money  
of this kingdom8  #cf4 ,qu4 ,provided   
the wheels move1 whether it is not the  
same thing1 as to the effect of the     
machine1 be this done by the force of   
wind1 or water1 or animals8  #cg4 ,qu4  
,whether power to command the industry  
of others be not real wealth8 ,and      
whether money be not in truth tickets or
 tokens for conveying and recording such
 power1 and whether it be of great      
consequence what materials the tickets  
are made of8  #ch4 ,qu4 ,whether trade1 

either foreign or domestic1 be in truth 
any more than this commerce of industry8
  #ci4 ,qu4 ,whether to promote1        
transfer1 and secure this commerce1 and 
this property in human labour1 or1 in   
other words1 this power1 be not the sole
 means of enriching a people1 and how   
far this may be done independently of   
gold and silver8  #dj4 ,qu4 ,whether it 
were not wrong to suppose land itself to
 be wealth8 ,and whether the industry of
 the people is not first to be          
consider'd1 as that which constitutes   
wealth1 which makes even land and silver
 to be wealth1 neither of which would   
have1 any value but as means and motives
 to industry8  #da4 ,qu4 ,whether in the
 wastes of ,america a man might not     
possess twenty miles square of land1 and
 yet want his dinner1 or a coat to his  
back8  #db4 ,qu4 ,whether a fertile     
land1 and the industry of its           
inhabitants1 would not prove            
inexhaustible funds of real wealth1 be  
the counters for conveying and recording

 thereof what you will1 paper1 gold1 or 
silver8  #dc4 ,qu4 ,whether a single    
hint be sufficient to overcome a        
prejudice8 ,and whether even obvious    
truths will not sometimes bear          
repeating8  #dd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if human
 labour be the true source of wealth1 it
 doth not follow that idleness should of
 all things be discouraged in a wise    
,state8  #de4 ,qu4 ,whether even gold or
 silver1 if they should lessen the      
industry of its inhabitants1 would not  
be ruinous to a country8 ,and whether   
,spain be not an instance of this8  #df4
 ,qu4 ,whether the opinion of men1 and  
their industry consequent thereupon1 be 
not the true wealth of ,holland and not 
the silver supposed to be deposited in  
the bank at ,amsterdam8  #dg4 ,qu4      
,whether there is in truth any such     
treasure lying dead8 ,and whether it be 
of great consequence to the public that 
it should be real rather than notional8 
#dh4 ,qu4 ,whether in order to          
understand the true nature of wealth and

 commerce1 it would not be right to     
consider a ship's crew cast upon a      
desert island1 and by degrees forming   
themselves to business and civil life1  
while industry begot credit1 and credit 
moved to industry8  #di4 ,qu4 ,whether  
such men would not all set themselves to
 work8 ,whether they would not subsist  
by the mutual participation of each     
other's industry8 ,whether1 when one man
 had in his way procured more than he   
could consume1 he would not exchange his
 superfluities to supply his wants8     
,whether this must not produce credit8  
,whether1 to facilitate these           
conveyances1 to record and circulate    
this credit1 they would not soon agree  
on certain tallies1 tokens1 tickets1 or 
counters8  #ej4 ,qu4 ,whether reflection
 in the better sort might not soon      
remedy our evils8 ,and whether our real 
defect be not a wrong way of thinking8  
#ea4 ,qu4 ,whether it would not be an   
unhappy turn in our gentlemen1 if they  
should take more thought to create an   

interest to themselves in this or that  
county1 or borough1 than to promote the 
real interest of their country8  #eb4   
,qu4 ,whether it be not a bull to call  
that making an interest1 whereby a man  
spendeth much and gaineth nothing8  #ec4
 ,qu4 ,whether if a man builds a house  
he doth not in the first place provide a
 plan which governs his work8 ,and shall
 the pubic act without an end1 a view1 a
 plan8  #ed4 ,qu4 ,whether by how much  
the less particular folk think for      
themselves1 the public be not so much   
the more obliged to think for them8     
#ee4 ,qu4 ,whether cunning be not one   
thing and good sense another8 and       
whether a cunning tradesman doth not    
stand in his own light8  #ef4 ,qu4      
,whether small gains be not the way to  
great profit8 ,and if our tradesmen are 
beggars1 whether they may not thank     
themselves for it8  #eg4 ,qu4 ,whether  
some way might not be found for making  
criminals useful in public works1       
instead of sending them either to       

,america1 or to the other world8  #eh4  
,qu4 ,whether we may not1 as well as    
other nations1 contrive employment for  
them8 ,and whether servitude1 chains1   
and hard labour1 for a term of years1   
would not be a more discouraging as well
 as a more adequate punishment for      
felons than even death itself8  #ei4    
,qu4 ,whether there are not such things 
in ,holland as bettering houses for     
bringing young gentlemen to order8 ,and 
whether such an institution would be    
useless among us8  #fj4 ,qu4 ,whether it
 be true that the poor in ,holland have 
no resource but their own labour1 and   
yet there are no beggars in their       
streets8  #fa4 ,qu4 ,whether he whose   
luxury consumeth foreign products1 and  
whose industry produceth nothing        
domestic to exchange for them1 is not so
 far forth injurious to his country8    
#fb4 ,qu4 ,whether1 consequently1 the   
fine gentlemen1 whose employment is only
 to dress1 drink1 and play1 be not a    
pubic nuisance8  #fc4 ,qu4 ,whether     

necessity is not to be hearkened to     
before convenience1 and convenience     
before luxury8  #fd4 ,qu4 ,whether to   
provide plentifully for the poor be not 
feeding the root1 the substance whereof 
will shoot upwards into the branches1   
and cause the top to flourish8  #fe4    
,qu4 ,whether there be any instance of a
 ,state wherein the people1 living      
neatly and plentifully1 did not aspire  
to wealth8  #ff4 ,qu4 ,whether nastiness
 and beggary do not1 on the contrary1   
extinguish all such ambition1 making men
 listless1 hopeless1 and slothful8  #fg4
 ,qu4 ,whether a country inhabited by   
people well fed1 clothed and lodged     
would not become every day more         
populous8 ,and whether a numerous stock 
of people in such circumstances would8  
and how far the product of not          
constitute a flourishing nation2 our own
 country may suffice for the compassing 
of this end8  #fh4 ,qu4 ,whether a      
people who had provided themselves with 
the necessaries of life in good plenty  

would not soon extend their industry to 
new arts and new branches of commerce8  
#fi4 ,qu4 ,whether those same           
manufactures which ,england imports from
 other countries may not be admitted    
from ,ireland8 ,and1 if so1 whether     
lace1 carpets1 and tapestry1 three      
considerable articles of ,english       
importation1 might not find             
encouragement in ,ireland8 ,and whether 
an academy for design might not greatly 
conduce to the perfecting those         
manufactures among us8  #gj4 ,qu4       
,whether ,france and ,flanders could    
have drawn so much money from ,england  
for figured silks1 lace1 and tapestry1  
if they had not had academies for       
designing8  #ga4 ,qu4 ,whether1 when a  
room was once prepared1 and models in   
plaster of ,paris1 the annual expense of
 such an academy need stand the pubic in
 above two hundred pounds a year8  #gb4 
,qu4 ,whether our linen-manufacture     
would not find the benefit of this      
institution8 ,and whether there be      

anything that makes us fall short of the
 ,dutch in damasks1 diapers1 and printed
 linen1 but our ignorance in design8    
#gc4 ,qu4 ,whether those specimens of   
our own manufacture1 hung up in a       
certain public place1 do not            
sufficiently declare such our ignorance8
 and whether for the honour of the      
nation they ought not to be removed8    
#gd4 ,qu4 ,whether those who may slight 
this affair as notional have            
sufficiently considered the extensive   
use of the art of design1 and its       
influence in most trades and            
manufactures1 wherein the forms of      
things are often more regarded than the 
materials8  #ge4 ,qu4 ,whether there be 
any art sooner learned than that of     
making carpets8 ,and whether our women1 
with little time and pains1 may not make
 more beautiful carpets than those      
imported from ,turkey8 ,and whether this
 branch of the woollen manufacture be   
not open to us8  #gf4 ,qu4 ,whether     
human industry can produce1 from such   

cheap materials1 a manufacture of so    
great value by any other art as by those
 of sculpture and painting8  #gg4 ,qu4  
,whether pictures and statues are not in
 fact so much treasure8 ,and whether    
,rome and ,florence would not be poor   
towns without them8  #gh4 ,qu4 ,whether 
they do not bring ready money as well as
 jewels8 ,whether in ,italy debts are   
not paid1 and children portioned with   
them1 as with gold and silver8  #gi4    
,qu4 ,whether it would not be more      
prudent1 to strike out and exert        
ourselves in permitted branches of      
trade1 than to fold our hands1 and      
repine that we are not allowed the      
woollen8  #hj4 ,qu4 ,whether it be true 
that two millions are yearly expended by
 ,england in foreign lace and linen8    
#ha4 ,qu4 ,whether immense sums are not 
drawn yearly into the ,northern         
countries1 for supplying the ,british   
navy with hempen manufactures8  #hb4    
,qu4 ,whether there be anything more    
profitable than hemp8 ,and whether there

 should not be great premiums for       
encouraging our hempen trade8 ,what     
advantages may not ,great ,britain make 
of a country where land and labour are  
so cheap8  #hc4 ,qu4 ,whether ,ireland  
alone might not raise hemp sufficient   
for the ,british navy8 ,and whether it  
would not be vain to expect this from   
the ,british ,colonies in ,america1     
where hands are so scarce1 and labour so
 excessively dear8  #hd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 
if our own people want will or capacity 
for such an attempt1 it might not be    
worth while for some undertaking spirits
 in ,england to make settlements1 and   
raise hemp in the counties of ,clare and
 ,limerick1 than which1 perhaps1 there  
is not fitter land in the world for that
 purpose8 ,and whether both nations     
would not find their advantage therein8 
#he4 ,qu4 ,whether if all the idle hands
 in this kingdom were employed on hemp  
and flax1 we might not find sufficient  
vent for these manufactures8  #hf4 ,qu4 
,how far it may be in our own power to  

better our affairs1 without interfering 
with our neighbours8  #hg4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the prohibition of our woollen trade   
ought not naturally to put us on other  
methods which give no jealousy8  #hh4   
,qu4 ,whether paper be not a valuable   
article of commerce8 ,and whether it be 
not true that one single bookseller in  
,london yearly expended above four      
thousand pounds in that foreign         
commodity8  #hi4 ,qu4 ,how it comes to  
pass that the ,venetians and ,genoese1  
who wear so much less linen1 and so much
 worse than we do1 should yet make very 
good paper1 and in great quantity1 while
 we make very little8  #ij4 ,qu4 ,how   
long it will be before my countrymen    
find out that it is worth while to spend
 a penny in order to get a groat8  #ia4 
,qu4 ,if all the land were tilled that  
is fit for tillage1 and all that sowed  
with hemp and flax that is fit for      
raising them1 whether we should have    
much sheep-walk beyond what was         
sufficient to supply the necessities of 

the kingdom8  #ib4 ,qu4 ,whether other  
countries have not flourished without   
the woollen trade8  #ic4 ,qu4 ,whether  
it be not a sure sign or effect of a    
country's inhabitants8 ,and1 thriving1  
to see it well cultivated and full of2  
if so1 whether a great quantity of      
sheep-walk be not ruinous to a country1 
rendering it waste and thinly inhabited8
  #id4 ,qu4 ,whether the employing so   
much of our land under sheep be not in  
fact an ,irish blunder8  #ie4 ,qu4      
,whether our hankering after our woollen
 trade be not the true and only reason  
which hath created a jealousy in        
,england towards ,ireland8 ,and whether 
anything can hurt us more than such     
jealousy8  #if4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not 
the true interest of both nations to    
become one people8 ,and whether either  
be sufficiently apprised of this8  #ig4 
,qu4 ,whether the upper part of this    
people are not truly ,english1 by blood1
 language1 religion1 manners1           
inclination1 and interest8  #ih4 ,qu4   

,whether we are not as much ,englishmen 
as the children of old ,romans1 born in 
,britain1 were still ,romans8  #ii4 ,qu4
 ,whether it be not our true interest   
not to interfere with them2 and1 in     
every other case1 whether it be not     
their true interest to befriend us8     
#ajj4 ,qu4 ,whether a mint in ,ireland  
might not be of great convenience to the
 kingdom2 and whether it could be       
attended with any possible inconvenience
 to ,great ,britain8 ,and whether there 
were not mints in ,naples and ,sicily1  
when those kingdoms were provinces to   
,spain or the house of ,austria8  #aja4 
,qu4 ,whether anything can be more      
ridiculous than for the north of        
,ireland to be jealous of a linen       
manufacturer in the south8  #ajb4 ,qu4  
,whether the county of ,tipperary be not
 much better land than the county of    
,armagh2 and yet whether the latter is  
not much better improved and inhabited  
than the former8  #ajc4 ,qu4 ,whether   
every landlord in the kingdom doth not  

know the cause of this8 ,and yet how few
 are the better for such their          
knowledge8  #ajd4 ,qu4 ,whether large   
farms under few hands1 or small ones    
under many1 are likely to be made most  
of8 ,and whether flax and tillage do not
 naturally multiply hands1 and divide   
land into small holdings1 and           
well-improved8  #aje4 ,qu4 ,whether1 as 
our exports are lessened1 we ought not  
to lessen our imports8 ,and whether     
these will not be lessened as our       
demands1 and these as our wants1 and    
these as our customs or fashions8 ,of   
how great consequence therefore are     
fashions to the public8  #ajf4 ,qu4     
,whether it would not be more reasonable
 to mend our state than to complain of  
it2 and how far this may be in our own  
power8  #ajg4 ,qu4 ,what the nation     
gains by those who live in ,ireland upon
 the produce of foreign ,countries8     
#ajh4 ,qu4 ,how far the vanity of our   
ladies in dressing1 and of our gentlemen
 in drinking1 contributes to the general

 misery of the people8  #aji4 ,qu4      
,whether nations1 as wise and opulent as
 ours1 have not made sumptuary laws2 and
 what hinders us from doing the same8   
#aaj4 ,qu4 ,whether those who drink     
foreign liquors1 and deck themselves and
 their families with foreign ornaments1 
are not so far forth to be reckoned     
absentees8  #aaa4 ,qu4 ,whether1 as our 
trade is limited1 we ought not to limit 
our expenses2 and whether this be not   
the natural and obvious remedy8  #aab4  
,qu4 ,whether the dirt1 and famine1 and 
nakedness of the bulk of our people     
might not be remedied1 even although we 
had no foreign trade8 ,and whether this 
should not be our first care2 and       
whether1 if this were once provided for1
 the conveniences of the rich would not 
soon follow8  #aac4 ,qu4 ,whether       
comfortable living doth not produce     
wants1 and wants industry1 and industry 
wealth8  #aad4 ,qu4 ,whether there is   
not a great difference between ,holland 
and ,ireland8 ,and whether foreign      

commerce1 without which the one could   
not subsist1 be so necessary for the    
other8  #aae4 ,qu4 ,might we not put a  
hand to the plough1 or the spade1       
although we had no foreign commerce8    
#aaf4 ,qu4 ,whether the exigencies of   
nature are not to be answered by        
industry on our own soil8 ,and how far  
the conveniences and comforts of life   
may be procured by a domestic commerce  
between the several parts of this       
kingdom8  #aag4 ,qu4 ,whether the women 
may not sew1 spin1 weave1 embroider     
sufficiently for the embellishment of   
their persons1 and even enough to raise 
envy in each other1 without being       
beholden to foreign countries8  #aah4   
,qu4 ,suppose the bulk of our           
inhabitants had shoes to their feet1    
clothes to their backs1 and beef in     
their bellies1 might not such a state be
 eligible for the public1 even though   
the squires were condemned to drink ale 
and cider8  #aai4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if     
drunkenness be a necessary evil1 men may

 not as well drink the growth of their  
own country8  #abj4 ,qu4 ,whether a     
nation within itself might not have real
 wealth1 sufficient to give its         
inhabitants power and distinction1      
without the help of gold and silver8    
#aba4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if the arts of     
sculpture and painting were encouraged  
among us1 we might not furnish our      
houses in a much nobler manner with our 
own manufactures8  #abb4 ,qu4 ,whether  
we have not1 or may not have1 all the   
necessary materials for building at     
home8  #abc4 ,qu4 ,whether tiles and    
plaster may not supply the place of     
,norway fir for flooring and wainscot8  
#abd4 ,qu4 ,whether plaster be not      
warmer1 as well as more secure1 than    
deal8 ,and whether a modern fashionable 
house1 lined with fir1 daubed over with 
oil and paint1 be not like a fire-ship1 
ready to be lighted up by all accidents8
  #abe4 ,qu4 ,whether larger houses1    
better built and furnished1 a greater   
train of servants1 the difference with  

regard to equipage and table between    
finer and coarser1 more and less        
elegant1 may not be sufficient to feed a
 reasonable share of vanity1 or support 
all proper distinctions8 ,and whether   
all these may not be procured by        
domestic industry out of the four       
elements1 without ransacking the four   
quarters of the globe8  #abf4 ,qu4      
,whether anything is a nobler ornament1 
in the eye of the world1 than an        
,italian palace1 that is1 stone and     
mortar skilfully put together1 and      
adorned with sculpture and painting2 and
 whether this may not be compassed      
without foreign trade8  #abg4 ,qu4      
,whether an expense in gardens and      
plantations would not be an elegant     
distinction for the rich1 a domestic    
magnificence employing many hands       
within1 and drawing nothing from abroad8
  #abh4 ,qu4 ,whether the apology which 
is made for foreign luxury in ,england1 
to wit1 that they could not carry on    
their trade without imports as well as  

exports1 will hold in ,ireland8  #abi4  
,qu4 ,whether one may not be allowed to 
conceive and suppose a society or nation
 of human creatures1 clad in woollen    
cloths and stuffs1 eating good bread1   
beef and mutton1 poultry and fish1 in   
great plenty1 drinking ale1 mead1 and   
cider1 inhabiting decent houses built of
 brick and marble1 taking their pleasure
 in fair parks and gardens1 depending on
 no foreign imports either for food or  
raiment8 ,and whether such people ought 
much to be pitied8  #acj4 ,qu4 ,whether 
,ireland be not as well qualified for   
such a state as any nation under the    
sun8  #aca4 ,qu4 ,whether in such a     
state the inhabitants may not contrive  
to pass the twenty-four hours with      
tolerable ease and cheerfulness8 ,and   
whether any people upon earth can do    
more8  #acb4 ,qu4 ,whether they may not 
eat1 drink1 play1 dress1 visit1 sleep in
 good beds1 sit by good fires1 build1   
plant1 raise a name1 make estates1 and  
spend them8  #acc4 ,qu4 ,whether1 upon  

the whole1 a domestic trade may not     
suffice in such a country as ,ireland1  
to nourish and clothe its inhabitants1  
and provide them with the reasonable    
conveniences and even comforts of life8 
#acd4 ,qu4 ,whether a general habit of  
living well would not produce numbers   
and industry' and whether1 considering  
the tendency of human kind1 the         
consequence thereof would not be foreign
 trade and riches1 how unnecessary      
soever8  #ace4 ,qu4 ,whether1           
nevertheless1 it be a crime to inquire  
how far we may do without foreign trade1
 and what would follow on such a        
supposition8  #acf4 ,qu4 ,whether the   
number and welfare of the subjects be   
not the true strength of the crown8     
#acg4 ,qu4 ,whether in all public       
institutions there should not be an end 
proposed1 which is to be the rule and   
limit of the means8 ,whether this end   
should not be the well-being of the     
whole8 ,and whether1 in order to this1  
the first step should not be to clothe  

and feed our people8  #ach4 ,qu4        
,whether there be upon earth any        
,christian or civilized people so       
beggarly1 wretched1 and destitute as the
 common ,irish8  #aci4 ,qu4 ,whether1   
nevertheless1 there is any other people 
whose wants may be more easily supplied 
from home8  #adj4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if     
there was a wall of brass a thousand    
cubits high round this kingdom1 our     
natives might not nevertheless live     
cleanly and comfortably1 till the land1 
and reap the fruits of it8  #ada4 ,qu4  
,what should hinder us from exerting    
ourselves1 using our hands and brains1  
doing something or other1 man1 woman1   
and child1 like the other inhabitants of
 ,god's earth8  #adb4 ,qu4 ,be the      
restraining our trade well or ill       
advised in our neighbours1 with respect 
to their own interest1 yet whether it be
 not plainly ours to accommodate        
ourselves to it8  #adc4 ,qu4 ,whether it
 be not vain to think of persuading     
other people to see their interest1     

while we continue blind to our own8     
#add4 ,qu4 ,whether there be any other  
nation possess'd of so much good land1  
and so many able hands to work it1 which
 yet is beholden for bread to foreign   
countries8  #ade4 ,qu4 ,whether it be   
true that we import corn to the value of
 two hundred thousand pounds in some    
years8  #adf4 ,qu4 ,whether we are not  
undone by fashions made for other       
people8 ,and whether it be not madness  
in a poor nation to imitate a rich one8 
#adg4 ,qu4 ,whether a woman of fashion  
ought not to be declared a public enemy8
  #adh4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not certain 
that from the single town of ,cork were 
exported1 in one year1 no less than one 
hundred and seven thousand one hundred  
and sixty-one barrels of beef2 seven    
thousand three hundred and seventy-nine 
barrels of pork2 thirteen thousand four 
hundred and sixty-one casks1 and        
eighty-five thousand seven hundred and  
twenty-seven firkins of butter8 ,and    
what hands were employed in this        

manufacture8  #adi4 ,qu4 ,whether a     
foreigner could imagine that one half of
 the people were starving1 in a country 
which sent out such plenty of           
provisions8  #aej4 ,qu4 ,whether an     
,irish lady1 set out with ,french silks 
and ,flanders lace1 may not be said to  
consume more beef and butter than a     
hundred of our labouring peasants8      
#aea4 ,qu4 ,whether nine-tenths of our  
foreign trade be not carried on singly  
to support the article of vanity8  #aeb4
 ,qu4 ,whether it can be hoped that     
private persons will not indulge this   
folly1 unless restrained by the public8 
#aec4 ,qu4 ,how vanity is maintained in 
other countries8 ,whether in ,hungary1  
for instance1 a proud nobility are not  
subsisted with small imports from       
abroad8  #aed4 ,qu4 ,whether there be a 
prouder people upon earth than the noble
 ,venetians1 although they all wear     
plain black clothes8  #aee4 ,qu4        
,whether a people are to be pitied that 
will not sacrifice their little         

particular vanities to the public good8 
,and yet1 whether each part would not   
except their own foible from this public
 sacrifice1 the squire his bottle1 the  
lady her lace8  #aef4 ,qu4 ,whether     
claret be not often drank rather for    
vanity than for health1 or pleasure8    
#aeg4 ,qu4 ,whether it be true that men 
of nice palates have been imposed on1 by
 elder wine for ,french claret1 and by  
mead for palm sack8  #aeh4 ,qu4 ,do not 
,englishmen abroad purchase beer and    
cider at ten times the price of wine8   
#aei4 ,qu4 ,how many gentlemen are there
 in ,england of a thousand pounds per   
annum who never drink wine in their own 
houses8 ,whether the same may be said of
 any in ,ireland who have even8 one     
hundred pounds per annum4  #afj4 ,qu4   
,what reasons have our neighbours in    
,england for discouraging ,french wines 
which may not hold with respect to us   
also8  #afa4 ,qu4 ,how much of the      
necessary sustenance of our people is   
yearly exported for brandy8  #afb4 ,qu4 

,whether1 if people must poison         
themselves1 they had not better do it   
with their own growth8  #afc4 ,qu4 ,if  
we imported neither claret from ,france1
 nor fir from ,norway1 what the nation  
would save by it8  #afd4 ,qu4 ,when the 
root yieldeth insufficient nourishment1 
whether men do not top the tree to make 
the lower branches thrive8  #afe4 ,qu4  
,whether1 if our ladies drank sage or   
balm tea out of ,irish ware1 it would be
 an insupportable national calamity8    
#aff4 ,qu4 ,whether it be really true   
that such wine is best as most          
encourages drinking1 i4e41 that must be 
given in the largest dose to produce its
 effect8 ,and whether this holds with   
regard to any other medicine8  #afg4    
,qu4 ,whether that trade should not be  
accounted most pernicious wherein the   
balance is most against us8 ,and whether
 this be not the trade with ,france8    
#afh4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not even      
madness to encourage trade with a nation
 that takes nothing of our manufacture8 

#afi4 ,qu4 ,whether ,ireland can hope to
 thrive if the major part of her        
patriots shall be found in the ,french  
interest8  #agj4 ,qu4 ,why1 if a bribe  
by the palate or the purse be in effect 
the same thing1 they should not be alike
 infamous8  #aga4 ,qu4 ,whether the     
vanity and luxury of a few ought to     
stand in competition with the interest  
of a nation8  #agb4 ,qu4 ,whether       
national wants ought not to be the rule 
of trade8 ,and whether the most pressing
 wants of the majority ought not to be  
first consider'd8  #agc4 ,qu4 ,whether  
it is possible the country should be    
well improved1 while our beef is        
exported1 and our labourers live upon   
potatoes8  #agd4 ,qu4 ,if it be resolved
 that we cannot do without foreign      
trade1 whether1 at least1 it may not be 
worth while to consider what branches   
thereof deserve to be entertained1 and  
how far we may be able to carry it on   
under our present limitations8  #age4   
,qu4 ,what foreign imports may be       

necessary for clothing and feeding the  
families of persons not worth above one 
hundred pounds a year8 ,and how many    
wealthier there are in the kingdom1 and 
what proportion they bear to the other  
inhabitants8  #agf4 ,qu4 ,whether trade 
be not then on a right foot1 when       
foreign commodities are imported in     
exchange only for domestic              
superfluities8  #agg4 ,qu4 ,whether the 
quantities of beef1 butter1 wool1 and   
leather1 exported from this island1 can 
be reckoned the superfluities of a      
country1 where there are so many natives
 naked and famished8  #agh4 ,qu4        
,whether it would not be wise so to     
order our trade as to export            
manufactures rather than provisions1 and
 of those such as employ most hands8    
#agi4 ,qu4 ,whether she would not be a  
very vile matron1 and justly thought    
either mad or foolish1 that should give 
away the necessaries of life from her   
naked and famished children1 in exchange
 for pearls to stick in her hair1 and   

sweetmeats to please her own palate8    
#ahj4 ,qu4 ,whether a nation might not  
be consider'd as a family8  #aha4 ,qu4  
,whether other methods may not be found 
for supplying the funds1 besides the    
custom on things imported8  #ahb4 ,qu4  
,whether any art or manufacture be so   
difficult as the making of good laws8   
#ahc4 ,qu4 ,whether our peers and       
gentlemen are born legislators8 ,or1    
whether that faculty be acquired by     
study and reflection8  #ahd4 ,qu4       
,whether to comprehend the real interest
 of a people1 and the means to procure  
it1 doth not imply some fund of         
knowledge1 historical1 moral1 and       
political1 with a faculty of reason     
improved by learning8  #ahe4 ,qu4       
,whether every enemy to learning be not 
a ,goth8 ,and whether every such ,goth  
among us be not an enemy to the country8
  #ahf4 ,qu4 ,whether1 therefore1 it    
would not be an omen of ill presage1 a  
dreadful phenomenon in the land1 if our 
great men should take it in their heads 

to deride learning and education8  #ahg4
 ,qu4 ,whether1 on the contrary1 it     
should not seem worth while to erect a  
mart of literature in this kingdom1     
under wiser regulations and better      
discipline than in any other part of    
,europe8 ,and whether this would not be 
an infallible means of drawing men and  
money into the kingdom8  #ahh4 ,qu4     
,whether the governed be not too        
numerous for the governing part of our  
college8 ,and whether it might not be   
expedient to convert thirty             
natives-places into twenty fellowships8 
#ahi4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if we had two      
colleges1 there might not spring a      
useful emulation between them8 ,and     
whether it might not be contrived so to 
divide the fellows1 scholars1 and       
revenues between both1 as that no member
 should be a loser thereby8  #aij4 ,qu4 
,whether ten thousand pounds well laid  
out might not build a decent college1   
fit to contain two hundred persons2 and 
whether the purchase money of the       

chambers would not go a good way towards
 defraying the expense8  #aia4 ,qu4     
,where this college should be situated8 
#aib4 ,qu4 ,whether it is possible a    
,state should not thrive1 whereof the   
lower part were industrious1 and the    
upper wise8  #aic4 ,qu4 ,whether the    
collected wisdom of ages and nations be 
not found in books1 improved and applied
 by study8  #aid4 ,qu4 ,whether it was  
not an ,irish professor who first opened
 the public schools at ,oxford8 ,whether
 this island hath not been anciently    
famous for learning8 ,and whether at    
this day it hath any better chance for  
being considerable8  #aie4 ,qu4 ,whether
 we may not with better grace sit down  
and complain1 when we have done all that
 lies in our power to help ourselves8   
#aif4 ,qu4 ,whether the gentleman of    
estate hath a right to be idle2 and     
whether he ought not to be the great    
promoter and director of industry among 
his tenants and neighbours8  #aig4 ,qu4 
,whether the real foundation for wealth 

must not be laid in the numbers1 the    
frugality1 and the industry of the      
people8 ,and whether all attempts to    
enrich a nation by other means1 as      
raising the coin1 stock-jobbing1 and    
such arts are not vain8  #aih4 ,qu4     
,whether a door ought not to be shut    
against all other methods of growing    
rich1 save only by industry and merit8  
,and whether wealth got otherwise would 
not be ruinous to the public8  #aii4    
,qu4 ,whether the abuse of banks and    
paper-money is a just objection against 
the use thereof8 ,and whether such abuse
 might not easily be prevented8  #bjj4  
,qu4 ,whether national banks are not    
found useful in ,venice1 ,holland1 and  
,hamburg8 ,and whether it is not        
possible to contrive one that may be    
useful also in ,ireland8  #bja4 ,qu4    
,whether any nation ever was in greater 
want of such an expedient than ,ireland8
  #bjb4 ,qu4 ,whether the banks of      
,venice and ,amsterdam are not in the   
hands of the public8  #bjc4 ,qu4        

,whether it may not be worth while to   
inform ourselves in the nature of those 
banks8 ,and what reason can be assigned 
why ,ireland should not reap the benefit
 of such public banks as well as other  
countries8  #bjd4 ,qu4 ,whether a bank  
of national credit1 supported by public 
funds and secured by ,parliament1 be a  
chimera or impossible thing8 ,and if    
not1 what would follow from the supposal
 of such a bank8  #bje4 ,qu4 ,whether   
the currency of a credit so well secured
 would not be of great advantage to our 
trade and manufactures8  #bjf4 ,qu4     
,whether the notes of such public bank  
would not have a more general           
circulation than those of private banks1
 as being less subject to frauds and    
hazards8  #bjg4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not 
agreed that paper hath in many respects 
the advantage above coin1 as being of   
more dispatch in payments1 more easily  
transferred1 preserved1 and recovered   
when lost8  #bjh4 ,qu4 ,whether1 besides
 these advantages1 there be not an      

evident necessity for circulating credit
 by paper1 from the defect of coin in   
this kingdom8  #bji4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
public may not as well save the interest
 which it now pays8  #baj4 ,qu4 ,what   
would happen if two of our banks should 
break at once8 ,and whether it be wise  
to neglect providing against an event   
which experience hath shewn us not to be
 impossible8  #baa4 ,qu4 ,whether such  
an accident would not particularly      
affect the bankers8 ,and therefore      
whether a national bank would not be a  
security even to private bankers8  #bab4
 ,qu4 ,whether we may not easily avoid  
the inconveniencies attending the       
paper-money of ,new ,england1 which were
 incurred by their issuing too great a  
quantity of notes1 by their having no   
silver in bank to exchange for notes1 by
 their not insisting upon repayment of  
the loans at the time prefixed1 and     
especially by their want of manufactures
 to answer their imports from ,europe8  
#bac4 ,qu4 ,whether a combination of    

bankers might not do wonders1 and       
whether bankers know their own strength8
  #bad4 ,qu4 ,whether a bank in private 
hands might not even overturn a         
government8 and whether this was not the
 case of the ,bank of ,st4 ,george in   
,genoa8 ,footnote3 ,see the ,vindication
 and ,advancement of our national       
,constitution and ,credit4 ,printed in  
,london #agaj4  #bae4 ,qu4 ,whether we  
may not easily prevent the ill effects  
of such a bank as ,mr ,law proposed for 
,scotland1 which was faulty in not      
limiting the quantum of bills1 and      
permitting all persons to take out what 
bills they pleased1 upon the mortgage of
 lands1 whence by a glut of paper1 the  
prices of things must rise8 ,whence also
 the fortunes of men must increase in   
denomination1 though not in value2      
whence pride1 idleness1 and beggary8    
#baf4 ,qu4 ,whether such banks as those 
of ,england and ,scotland might not be  
attended with great inconveniences1 as  
lodging too much power in the hands of  

private men1 and giving handle for      
monopolies1 stock-jobbing1 and          
destructive schemes8  #bag4 ,qu4        
,whether the national bank1 projected by
 an anonymous writer in the latter end  
of ,queen ,anne's reign1 might not on   
the other hand be attended with as great
 inconveniencies by lodging too much    
power in the ,government8  #bah4 ,qu4   
,whether the bank projected by ,murray1 
though it partake1 in many useful       
particulars1 with that of ,amsterdam1   
yet1 as it placeth too great power in   
the hands of a private society1 might   
not be dangerous to the public8  #bai4  
,qu4 ,whether it be rightly remarked by 
some that1 as banking brings no treasure
 into the kingdom like trade1 private   
wealth must sink as the bank riseth8    
,and whether whatever causeth industry  
to flourish and circulate may not be    
said to increase our treasure8  #bbj4   
,qu4 ,whether the ruinous effects of    
,mississippi1 ,south ,sea1 and such     
schemes were not owing to an abuse of   

paper money or credit1 in making it a   
means for idleness and gaming1 instead  
of a motive and help to industry8  #bba4
 ,qu4 ,whether those effects could have 
happened had there been no              
stock-jobbing8 ,and whether             
stock-jobbing could at first have been  
set on foot1 without an imaginary       
foundation of some improvement to the   
stock by trade8 ,whether1 therefore1    
when there are no such prospects1 or    
cheats1 or private schemes proposed1 the
 same effects can be justly feared8     
#bbb4 ,qu4 ,whether by a national bank1 
be not properly understood a bank1 not  
only established by public authority as 
the ,bank of ,england1 but a bank in the
 hands of the public1 wherein there are 
no shares3 whereof the public alone is  
proprietor1 and reaps all the benefit8  
#bbc4 ,qu4 ,whether1 having considered  
the conveniencies of banking and        
paper-credit in some countries1 and the 
inconveniencies thereof in others1 we   
may not contrive to adopt the former1   

and avoid the latter8  #bbd4 ,qu4       
,whether great evils1 to which other    
schemes are liable1 may not be          
prevented1 by excluding the managers of 
the bank from a share in the            
legislature8  #bbe4 ,qu4 ,whether the   
rise of the bank of ,amsterdam was not  
purely casual1 for the security and     
dispatch of payments8 ,and whether the  
good effects thereof1 in supplying the  
place of coin1 and promoting a ready    
circulation of industry and commerce may
 not be a lesson to us1 to do that by   
design which others fell upon by chance8
  #bbf4 ,qu4 ,whether the bank proposed 
to be established in ,ireland1 under the
 notion of a national bank1 by the      
voluntary subscription of three hundred 
thousand pounds1 to pay off the national
 debt1 the interest of which sum to be  
paid the subscribers1 subject to certain
 terms of redemption1 be not in reality 
a private bank1 as those of ,england and
 ,scotland1 which are national only in  
name1 being in the hands of particular  

persons1 and making dividends on the    
money paid in by subscribers8 ,footnote3
 ,see a ,proposal for the ,relief of    
,ireland1 c4 ,printed in ,dublin ,a4 ,d4
 #agcd  #bbg4 ,qu4 ,whether plenty of   
small cash be not absolutely necessary  
for keeping up a circulation among the  
people2 that is1 whether copper be not  
more necessary than gold8  #bbh4 ,qu4   
,whether it is not worth while to       
reflect on the expedients made use of by
 other nations1 paper-money1 bank-notes1
 public funds1 and credit in all its    
shapes1 to examine what hath been done  
and devised to add to our own           
animadversions1 and upon the whole offer
 such hints as seem not unworthy the    
attention of the public8  #bbi4 ,qu4    
,whether that1 which increaseth the     
stock of a nation be not a means of     
increasing its trade8 ,and whether that 
which increaseth the current credit of a
 nation may not be said to increase its 
stock8  #bcj4 ,qu4 ,whether it may not  
be expedient to appoint certain funds or

 stock for a national bank1 under       
direction of certain persons1 one-third 
whereof to be named by the ,government1 
and one-third by each ,house of         
,parliament8  #bca4 ,qu4 ,whether the   
directors should not be excluded from   
sitting in either ,house1 and whether   
they should not be subject to the audit 
and visitation of a standing committee  
of both ,houses8  #bcb4 ,qu4 ,whether   
such committee of inspectors should not 
be changed every two years1 one-half    
going out1 and another coming in by     
ballot8  #bcc4 ,qu4 ,whether the notes  
ought not to be issued in lots1 to be   
let at interest on mortgaged lands1 the 
whole number of lots to be divided among
 the four provinces1 rateably to the    
number of hearths in each8  #bcd4 ,qu4  
,whether it may not be expedient to     
appoint four counting-houses1 one in    
each province1 for converting notes into
 specie8  #bce4 ,qu4 ,whether a limit   
should not be fixed1 which no person    
might exceed1 in taking out notes8      

#bcf4 ,qu4 ,whether1 the better to      
answer domestic circulation1 it may not 
be right to issue notes as low as twenty
 shillings8  #bcg4 ,qu4 ,whether all the
 bills should be issued at once1 or     
rather by degrees1 that so men may be   
gradually accustomed and reconciled to  
the bank8  #bch4 ,qu4 ,whether the      
keeping of the cash1 and the direction  
of the bank1 ought not to be in         
different hands1 and both under public  
control8  #bci4 ,qu4 ,whether the same  
rule should not alway be observed1 of   
lending out money or notes1 only to half
 the value of the mortgaged land8 and   
whether this value should not alway be  
rated at the same number of years'      
purchase as at first8  #bdj4 ,qu4       
,whether care should not be taken to    
prevent an undue rise of the value of   
land8  #bda4 ,qu4 ,whether the increase 
of industry and people will not of      
course raise the value of land8 ,and    
whether this rise may not be sufficient8
  #bdb4 ,qu4 ,whether land may not be   

apt to rise on the issuing too great    
plenty of notes8  #bdc4 ,qu4 ,whether   
this may not be prevented by the gradual
 and slow issuing of notes1 and by      
frequent sales of lands8  #bdd4 ,qu4    
,whether interest doth not measure the  
true value of land2 for instance1 where 
money is at five per cent1 whether land 
is not worth twenty years' purchase8    
#bde4 ,qu4 ,whether too small a         
proportion of money would not hurt the  
landed man1 and too great a proportion  
the monied man8 ,and whether the quantum
 of notes ought not to bear proportion  
to the pubic demand8 ,and whether trial 
must not shew what this demand will be8 
#bdf4 ,qu4 ,whether the exceeding this  
measure might not produce divers bad    
effects1 one whereof would be the loss  
of our silver8  #bdg4 ,qu4 ,whether     
interest paid into the bank ought not to
 go on augmenting its stock8  #bdh4 ,qu4
 ,whether it would or would not be right
 to appoint that the said interest be   
paid in notes only8  #bdi4 ,qu4 ,whether

 the notes of this national bank should 
not be received in all payments into the
 exchequer8  #bej4 ,qu4 ,whether on     
supposition that the specie should fail1
 the credit would not1 nevertheless1    
still pass1 being admitted in all       
payments of the public revenue8  #bea4  
,qu4 ,whether the pubic can become      
bankrupt so long as the notes are issued
 on good security8  #beb4 ,qu4 ,whether 
mismanagement1 prodigal living1 hazards 
by trade1 which often affect private    
banks1 are equally to be apprehended in 
a pubic one8  #bec4 ,qu4 ,whether as    
credit became current1 and this raised  
the value of land1 the security must not
 of course rise8  #bed4 ,qu4 ,whether1  
as our current domestic credit grew1    
industry would not grow likewise2 and if
 industry1 our manufactures2 and if     
these1 our foreign credit8  #bee4 ,qu4  
,whether by degrees1 as business and    
people multiplied1 more bills may not be
 issued1 without augmenting the capital 
stock1 provided still1 that they are    

issued on good security2 which further  
issuing of new bills1 not to be without 
consent of ,parliament8  #bef4 ,qu4     
,whether such bank would not be secure8 
,whether the profits accruing to the    
pubic would not be very considerable8   
,and whether industry in private persons
 would not be supplied1 and a general   
circulation encouraged8  #beg4 ,qu4     
,whether such bank should1 or should    
not1 be allowed to issue notes for money
 deposited therein8 ,and1 if not1       
whether the bankers would have cause to 
complain8  #beh4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if the  
public thrives1 all particular persons  
must not feel the benefit thereof1 even 
the bankers themselves8  #bei4 ,qu4     
,whether1 beside the ,bank-,company1    
there are not in ,england many private  
wealthy bankers1 and whether they were  
more before the erecting of that        
company8  #bfj4 ,qu4 ,whether as        
industry increased1 our manufactures    
would not flourish2 and as these        
flourished1 whether better returns would

 not be made from estates to their      
landlords1 both within and without the  
kingdom8  #bfa4 ,qu4 ,whether we have   
not paper-money circulating among1      
whether1 therefore1 we might not as well
 have that us already which is secured  
by the public1 and whereof the pubic    
reaps the benefit8  #bfb4 ,qu4 ,whether 
there are not two general ways of       
circulating money1 to wit1 play and     
traffic8 and whether stock-jobbing is   
not to be ranked under the former8      
#bfc4 ,qu4 ,whether there are more than 
two things that might draw silver out of
 the bank1 when its credit was once well
 established1 to wit1 foreign demands   
and small payments at home8  #bfd4 ,qu4 
,whether1 if our trade with ,france were
 checked1 the former of these causes    
could be supposed to operate at all8 and
 whether the latter could operate to any
 great degree8  #bfe4 ,qu4 ,whether the 
sure way to supply people with tools and
 materials1 and to set them at work1 be 
not a free circulation of money1 whether

 silver or paper8  #bff4 ,qu4 ,whether  
in ,new ,england all trade and business 
is not as much at a stand1 upon a       
scarcity of paper-money1 as with us from
 the want of specie8  #bfg4 ,qu4        
,whether paper-money or notes may not be
 issued from the national bank1 on the  
security of hemp1 of linen1 or other    
manufactures whereby the poor might be  
supported in their industry8  #bfh4 ,qu4
 ,whether it be certain that the        
quantity of silver in the bank of       
,amsterdam be greater now than at first2
 but whether it be not certain that     
there is a greater circulation of       
industry and extent of trade1 more      
people1 ships1 houses1 and commodities  
of all sorts1 more power by sea and     
land8  #bfi4 ,qu4 ,whether money1 lying 
dead in the bank of ,amsterdam1 would   
not be as useless as in the mine8  #bgj4
 ,qu4 ,whether our visible security in  
land could be doubted8 ,and whether     
there be anything like this in the bank 
of ,amsterdam8  #bga4 ,qu4 ,whether it  

be just to apprehend danger from        
trusting a national bank with power to  
extend its credit1 to circulate notes   
which it shall be felony to counterfeit1
 to receive goods on loans1 to purchase 
lands1 to sell also or alienate them1   
and to deal in bills of exchange2 when  
these powers are no other than have been
 trusted for many years with the bank of
 ,england1 although in truth but a      
private bank8  #bgb4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
objection from monopolies and an        
overgrowth of power1 which are made     
against private banks1 can possibly hold
 against a national one8  #bgc4 ,qu4    
,whether banks raised by private        
subscription would be as advantageous to
 the public as to the subscribers8 and  
whether risks and frauds might not be   
more justly apprehended from them8      
#bgd4 ,qu4 ,whether the evil effects    
which of late years have attended       
paper-money and credit in ,europe did   
not spring from subscriptions1 shares1  
dividends1 and stock-jobbing8  #bge4    

,qu4 ,whether the great evils attending 
paper-money in the ,british ,plantations
 of ,america have not sprung from the   
overrating their lands1 and issuing     
paper without discretion1 and from the  
legislators breaking their own rules in 
favour of themselves1 thus sacrificing  
the public to their private benefit8    
,and whether a little sense and honesty 
might not easily prevent all such       
inconveniences8  #bgf4 ,qu4 ,whether an 
argument from the abuse of things1      
against the use of them1 be conclusive8 
#bgg4 ,qu4 ,whether he who is bred to a 
part be fitted to judge of the whole8   
#bgh4 ,qu4 ,whether interest be not apt 
to bias judgment8 and whether traders   
only are to be consulted about trade1 or
 bankers about money8  #bgi4 ,qu4       
,whether the subject of ,freethinking in
 religion be not exhausted8 ,and whether
 it be not high time for our            
freethinkers to turn their thoughts to  
the improvement of their country8  #bhj4
 ,qu4 ,whether any man hath a right to  

judge1 that will not be at the pains to 
distinguish8  #bha4 ,qu4 ,whether there 
be not a wide difference between the    
profits going to augment the national   
stock1 and being divided among private  
sharers8 ,and whether1 in the former    
case1 there can possibly be any gaming  
or stock-jobbing8  #bhb4 ,qu4 ,whether  
it must not be ruinous for a nation to  
sit down to game1 be it with silver or  
with paper8  #bhc4 ,qu4 ,whether1       
therefore1 the circulating paper1 in the
 late ruinous schemes of ,france and    
,england1 was the true evil1 and not    
rather the circulating thereof without  
industry8 ,and whether the bank of      
,amsterdam1 where industry had been for 
so many years subsisted and circulated  
by transfers on paper1 doth not clearly 
decide this point8  #bhd4 ,qu4 ,whether 
there are not to be seen in ,america    
fair towns1 wherein the people are well 
lodged1 fed1 and clothed1 without a     
beggar in their streets1 although there 
be not one grain of gold or silver      

current among them8  #bhe4 ,qu4 ,whether
 these people do not exercise all arts  
and trades1 build ships and navigate    
them to all parts of the world1 purchase
 lands1 till and reap the fruits of     
them1 buy and sell1 educate and provide 
for their children8 ,whether they do not
 even indulge themselves in foreign     
vanities8  #bhf4 ,qu4 ,whether1 whatever
 inconveniences those people may have   
incurred from not observing either rules
 or bounds in their paper money1 yet it 
be not certain that they are in a more  
flourishing condition1 have larger and  
better built towns1 more plenty1 more   
industry1 more arts and civility1 and a 
more extensive commerce1 than when they 
had gold and silver current among them8 
#bhg4 ,qu4 ,whether a view of the       
ruinous effects of absurd schemes and   
credit mismanaged1 so as to produce     
gaming and madness instead of industry1 
can be any just objection against a     
national bank calculated purely to      
promote industry8  #bhh4 ,qu4 ,whether a

 scheme for the welfare of this nation  
should not take in the whole            
inhabitants8 ,and whether it be not a   
vain attempt1 to project the flourishing
 of our ,protestant gentry1 exclusive of
 the bulk of the natives8  #bhi4 ,qu4   
,whether1 therefore1 it doth not greatly
 concern the ,state1 that our ,irish    
natives should be converted1 and the    
whole nation united in the same         
religion1 the same allegiance1 and the  
same interest8 and how this may most    
probably be effected8  #bij4 ,qu4       
,whether an oath1 testifying allegiance 
to the king1 and disclaiming the pope's 
authority in temporals1 may not be      
justly required of the ,roman           
,catholics8 ,and whether1 in common     
prudence or policy1 any priest should be
 tolerated who refuseth to take it8     
#bia4 ,qu4 ,whether there have not been 
,popish recusants8 and1 if so1 whether  
it would be right to object against the 
foregoing oath1 that all would take it1 
and none think themselves bound by it8  

#bib4 ,qu4 ,whether those of the ,church
 of ,rome1 in converting the ,moors of  
,spain or the ,protestants of ,france1  
have not set us an example which might  
justify a similar treatment of          
themselves1 if the laws of ,christianity
 allowed thereof8  #bic4 ,qu4 ,whether  
compelling men to a profession of faith 
is not the worst thing in ,popery1 and1 
consequently1 whether to copy after the 
,church of ,rome therein1 were not to   
become ,papists ourselves in the worst  
sense8  #bid4 ,qu4 ,whether1            
nevertheless1 we may not imitate the    
,church of ,rome1 in certain places1    
where ,jews are tolerated1 by obliging  
our ,irish ,papists1 at stated times1 to
 hear ,protestant sermons8 and whether  
this would not make missionaries in the 
,irish tongue useful8  #bie4 ,qu4       
,whether the mere act of hearing1       
without making any profession of faith1 
or joining in any part of worship1 be a 
religious act2 and1 consequently1       
whether their being obliged to hear1 may

 not consist with the toleration of     
,roman ,catholics8  #bif4 ,qu4 ,whether1
 if penal laws should be thought        
oppressive1 we may not at least be      
allowed to give premiums8 ,and whether  
it would be wrong1 if the public        
encouraged ,popish families to become   
hearers1 by paying their hearth-money   
for them8  #big4 ,qu4 ,whether in       
granting toleration1 we ought not to    
distinguish between doctrines purely    
religious1 and such as affect the       
,state8  #bih4 ,qu4 ,whether the case be
 not very different in regard to a man  
who only eats fish on ,fridays1 says his
 prayers in ,latin1 or believes         
transubstantiation1 and one who         
professeth in temporals a subjection to 
foreign powers1 who holdeth himself     
absolved from all obedience to his      
natural prince and the laws of his      
country8 who is even persuaded1 it may  
be meritorious to destroy the powers    
that are8  #bii4 ,qu4 ,whether1         
therefore1 a distinction should not be  

made between mere ,papists and          
recusants8 ,and whether the latter can  
expect the same protection from the     
,government as the former8  #cjj4 ,qu4  
,whether our ,papists in this kingdom   
can complain1 if they are allowed to be 
as much ,papists as the subjects of     
,france or of the ,empire8  #cja4 ,qu4  
,whether there is any such thing as a   
body of inhabitants1 in any ,roman      
,catholic country under the sun1 that   
profess an absolute submission to the   
pope's orders in matters of an          
indifferent nature1 or that in such     
points do not think it their duty to    
obey the civil government8  #cjb4 ,qu4  
,whether since the peace of ,utrecht1   
mass was not celebrated and the         
sacraments administered in divers       
dioceses of ,sicily1 notwithstanding the
 ,pope's interdict8  #cjc4 ,qu4 ,whether
 every plea of conscience is to be      
regarded8 ,whether1 for instance1 the   
,german ,anabaptists1 ,levellers1 or    
,fifth ,monarchy men would be tolerated 

on that pretence8  #cjd4 ,qu4 ,whether  
,popish children bred in charity        
schools1 when bound out in              
apprenticeship to ,protestant masters1  
do generally continue ,protestants8     
#cje4 ,qu4 ,whether a ,sum1 which would 
go but a little way towards erecting    
hospitals for maintaining and educating 
the children of the native ,irish1 might
 not go far in binding them out         
apprentices to ,protestant masters1 for 
husbandry1 useful trades1 and the       
service of families8  #cjf4 ,qu4        
,whether if the parents are overlooked1 
there can be any great hopes of success 
in converting the children8  #cjg4 ,qu4 
,whether there be any instance1 of a    
people's being converted in a ,christian
 sense1 otherwise than by preaching to  
them and instructing them in their own  
language8  #cjh4 ,qu4 ,whether          
catechists in the ,irish tongue may not 
easily be procured and subsisted8 ,and  
whether this would not be the most      
practicable means for converting the    

natives8  #cji4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not 
of great advantage to the ,church of    
,rome1 that she hath clergy suited to   
all ranks of men1 in gradual            
subordination from cardinals down to    
mendicants8  #caj4 ,qu4 ,whether her    
numerous poor clergy are not very useful
 in missions1 and of much influence with
 the people8  #caa4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in   
defect of able missionaries1 persons    
conversant in low life1 and speaking the
 ,irish tongue1 if well instructed in   
the first principles of religion1 and in
 the popish controversy1 though for the 
rest on a level with the parish clerks1 
or the school-masters of                
charity-schools1 may not be fit to mix  
with and bring over our poor illiterate 
natives to the ,established ,church8    
,whether it is not to be wished that    
some parts of our liturgy and homilies  
were publicly read in the ,irish        
language8 ,and whether1 in these views1 
it may not be right to breed up some of 
the better sort of children in the      

charity-schools1 and qualify them for   
missionaries1 catechists1 and readers8  
#cab4 ,qu4 ,whether there be any nation 
of men governed by reason8 ,and yet1 if 
there was not1 whether this would be a  
good argument against the use of reason 
in pubic affairs8  #cac4 ,qu4 ,whether1 
as others have supposed an ,atlantis or 
,utopia1 we also may not suppose an     
,hyperborean island inhabited by        
reasonable creatures8  #cad4 ,qu4       
,whether an indifferent person1 who     
looks into all hands1 may not be a      
better judge of the game than a party   
who sees only his own8  #cae4 ,qu4      
,whether one1 whose end is to make his  
countrymen think1 may not gain his end1 
even though they should not think as he 
doth8  #caf4 ,qu4 ,whether he1 who only 
asks1 asserts8 and whether any man can  
fairly confute the querist8  #cag4 ,qu4 
,whether the interest of a part will not
 always be preferred to that of the     
whole8   ,,finis   ,,errata4   ,page    
#aj4 ,line #ag4 for inexhaustable r4    

inexhaustible ,p4 #ad ,l4 #bb4 for      
,helpless r4 ,hopeless4 ,p4 #af ,l4 ult 
for than r4 as4      ,part ,,ii         
,query #a4  ,whether there be any       
country in ,christendom more capable of 
improvement than ,ireland8  #b4 ,qu4    
,whether we are not as far before other 
nations with respect to natural         
advantages1 as we are behind them with  
respect to arts and industry8  #c4 ,qu4 
,whether we do not live in a most       
fertile soil and temperate climate1 and 
yet whether our people in general do not
 feel great want and misery8  #d4 ,qu4  
,whether my countrymen are not readier  
at finding excuses than remedies8  #e4  
,qu4 ,whether it can be reasonably      
hoped1 that our state will mend1 so long
 as property is insecure among us8  #f4 
,qu4 ,whether in that case the wisest   
government1 or the best laws can avail  
us8  #g4 ,qu4 ,whether a few mishaps to 
particular persons may not throw this   
nation into the utmost confusion8  #h4  
,qu4 ,whether the public is not even on 

the brink of being undone by private    
accidents8  #i4 ,qu4 ,whether the wealth
 and prosperity of our country do not   
hang by a hair1 the probity of one      
banker1 the caution of another1 and the 
lives of all8  #aj4 ,qu4 ,whether we    
have not been sufficiently admonished of
 this by some late events8  #aa4 ,qu4   
,whether therefore it be not high time  
to open our eyes8  #ab4 ,qu4 ,whether a 
national bank would not at once secure  
our properties1 put an end to usury1    
facilitate commerce1 supply the want of 
coin1 and produce ready payments in all 
parts of the kingdom8  #ac4 ,qu4        
,whether the use or nature of money1    
which all men so eagerly pursue1 be yet 
sufficiently understood or considered by
 all8  #ad4 ,qu4 ,whether mankind are   
not governed by ,citation rather than by
 reason8  #ae4 ,qu4 ,whether there be   
not a measure or limit1 within which    
gold and silver are useful1 and beyond  
which they may be hurtful8  #af4 ,qu4   
,whether that measure be not the        

circulating of industry8  #ag4 ,qu4     
,whether a discovery of the richest gold
 mine that ever was1 in the heart of    
this kingdom1 would be a real advantage 
to us8  #ah4 ,qu4 ,whether it would not 
tempt foreigners to prey upon us8  #ai4 
,qu4 ,whether it would not render us a  
lazy1 proud1 and dastardly people8  #bj4
 ,qu4 ,whether every man who had money  
enough would not be a gentleman8 ,and   
whether a nation of gentlemen would not 
be a wretched nation8  #ba4 ,qu4        
,whether all things would not bear a    
high price8 ,and whether men would not  
increase their fortunes without being   
the better for it8  #bb4 ,qu4 ,whether  
the same evils would be apprehended from
 paper-money under an honest and thrifty
 regulation8  #bc4 ,qu4 ,whether1       
therefore1 a national bank would not be 
more beneficial than even a mine of     
gold8  #bd4 ,qu4 ,whether private ends  
are not prosecuted with more attention  
and vigour than the public8 ,and yet1   
whether all private ends are not        

included in the pubic8  #be4 ,qu4       
,whether banking be not absolutely      
necessary to the pubic weal8  #bf4 ,qu4 
,whether even our private banks1 though 
attended with such hazards as we all    
know them to be1 are not of singular use
 in defect of a national bank8  #bg4    
,qu4 ,whether without them what little  
business and industry there is would not
 stagnate8 ,but whether it be not a     
mighty privilege for a private person to
 be able to create a hundred pounds with
 a dash of his pen8  #bh4 ,qu4 ,whether 
the mystery of banking did not derive   
its original from the ,italians8        
,whether this acute people were not1    
upon a time1 bankers over all ,europe8  
,whether that business was not practised
 by some of their noblest families who  
made immense profits by it1 and whether 
to that the house of ,medici did not    
originally owe its greatness8  #bi4 ,qu4
 ,whether the wise state of ,venice was 
not the first that conceived the        
advantage of a national bank8  #cj4 ,qu4

 ,whether at ,venice all payments of    
bills of exchange and merchants'        
contracts are not made in the national  
or pubic bank1 the greatest affairs     
being transacted only by writing the    
names of the parties1 one as debtor the 
other as creditor in the bank-book8     
#ca4 ,qu4 ,whether nevertheless it was  
not found expedient to provide a chest  
of ready cash for answering all demands 
that should happen to be made on account
 of payments in detail8  #cb4 ,qu4      
,whether this offer of ready cash1      
instead of transfers in the bank1 hath  
not been found to augment rather than   
diminish the stock thereof8  #cc4 ,qu4  
,whether at ,venice1 the difference in  
the value of bank money above other     
money be not fixed at twenty per cent8  
#cd4 ,qu4 ,whether the bank of ,venice  
be not shut up four times in the year   
twenty days each time8  #ce4 ,qu4       
,whether by means of this bank the      
public be not mistress of a million and 
a half sterling8  #cf4 ,qu4 ,whether the

 great exactness and integrity with     
which this bank is managed be not the   
chief support of that republic8  #cg4   
,qu4 ,whether we may not hope for as    
much skill and honesty in a ,protestant 
,irish ,parliament as in a ,popish      
,senate of ,venice8  #ch4 ,qu4 ,whether 
the bank of ,amsterdam was not begun    
about one hundred and thirty years ago1 
and whether at this day its stock be not
 conceived to amount to three thousand  
tons of gold1 or thirty millions        
sterling8  #ci4 ,qu4 ,whether besides   
coined money1 there be not also great   
quantities of ingots or bars of gold and
 silver lodged in this bank8  #dj4 ,qu4 
,whether all payments of contracts for  
goods in gross1 and letters of exchange1
 must not be made by transfers in the   
bank-books1 provided the sum exceed     
three hundred florins8  #da4 ,qu4       
,whether it be not true1 that the bank  
of ,amsterdam never makes payments in   
cash8  #db4 ,qu4 ,whether1 nevertheless1
 it be not also true1 that no man who   

hath credit in the bank can want money  
from particular persons1 who are willing
 to become creditors in his stead8  #dc4
 ,qu4 ,whether any man thinks himself   
the poorer1 because his money is in the 
bank8  #dd4 ,qu4 ,whether the creditors 
of the bank of ,amsterdam are not at    
liberty to withdraw their money when    
they please1 and whether this liberty   
doth not make them less desirous to use 
it8  #de4 ,qu4 ,whether this bank be not
 shut up twice in the year for ten or   
fifteen days1 during which time the     
accounts are balanced8  #df4 ,qu4       
,whether it be not owing to this bank   
that the city of ,amsterdam1 without the
 least confusion1 hazard1 or trouble1   
maintains and every day promotes so     
general and quick a circulation of      
industry8  #dg4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not 
the greatest help and spur to commerce  
that property can be so readily conveyed
 and so well secured by a compte en     
banc1 that is1 by only writing one man's
 name for another's in the bank-book8   

#dh4 ,qu4 ,whether1 at the beginning of 
the last century1 those who had lent    
money to the public during the war with 
,spain were not satisfied by the sole   
expedient of placing their names in a   
compte en banc1 with liberty to transfer
 their claims8  #di4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
example of those easy transfers in the  
compte en banc1 thus casually erected1  
did not tempt other men to become       
creditors to the public1 in order to    
profit by the same secure and           
expeditious method of keeping and       
transferring their wealth8  #ej4 ,qu4   
,whether this compte en banc hath not   
proved better than a mine of gold to    
,amsterdam8  #ea4 ,qu4 ,whether that    
city may not be said to owe her         
greatness to the unpromising accident of
 her having been in debt more than she  
was able to ,pay8  #eb4 ,qu4 ,whether it
 be known that any ,state from such     
small beginnings1 in so short a time1   
ever grew to so great wealth and power  
as the province of ,holland hath done2  

and whether the bank of ,amsterdam hath 
not been the real cause of such         
extraordinary growth8  #ec4 ,qu4        
,whether we are by nature a more stupid 
people than the ,dutch8 ,and yet whether
 these things are sufficiently          
considered by our patriots8  #ed4 ,qu4  
,whether anything less than the utter   
subversion of those ,republics can break
 the banks of ,venice and ,amsterdam8   
#ee4 ,qu4 ,whether at ,hamburgh the     
citizens have not the management of the 
bank1 without the meddling or inspection
 of the ,senate8  #ef4 ,qu4 ,whether the
 directors be not four principal        
burghers chosen by plurality of voices1 
whose business is to see the rules      
observed1 and furnish the cashiers with 
money8  #eg4 ,qu4 ,whether the          
book-keepers are not obliged to balance 
their accounts every week1 and exhibit  
them to the controllers or directors8   
#eh4 ,qu4 ,whether any besides the      
citizens are admitted to have compte en 
banc at ,hamburgh8  #ei4 ,qu4 ,whether  

there be not a certain limit1 under     
which no sum can be entered into the    
bank8  #fj4 ,qu4 ,whether each          
particular person doth not pay a fee in 
order to be admitted to a compte en banc
 at ,hamburgh and ,amsterdam8  #fa4 ,qu4
 ,whether the effects lodged in the bank
 of ,hamburgh are liable to be seized   
for debt or forfeiture8  #fb4 ,qu4      
,whether this bank doth not lend money  
upon pawns at low interest and only for 
half a year1 after which term1 in       
default of payment1 the pawns are       
punctually sold by auction8  #fc4 ,qu4  
,whether the book-keepers of the bank of
 ,hamburgh are not obliged upon oath    
never to reveal what sums of money are  
paid in or out of the bank1 or what     
effects any particular person has       
therein8  #fd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 therefore1
 it be possible to know the state or    
stock of this bank2 and yet whether it  
be not of the greatest reputation and   
most established credit throughout the  
,north8  #fe4 ,qu4 ,whether the success 

of those public banks in ,venice1       
,amsterdam and ,hamburg would not       
naturally produce in other ,states an   
inclination to the same methods8  #ff4  
,qu4 ,whether an absolute monarchy be so
 apt to gain credit1 and whether the    
vivacity of some humours could so well  
suit with the slow steps and discreet   
management which a bank requires8  #fg4 
,qu4 ,whether the bank called the       
general bank of ,france1 contrived by   
,mr ,law1 and established by letters    
patent in ,may1 #agaf1 was not in truth 
a particular and not a national bank1   
being in the hands of a particular      
company privileged and protected by the 
,government8  #fh4 ,qu4 ,whether the    
,government did not order that the notes
 of this bank should pass on a par with 
ready money in all payments of the      
revenue8  #fi4 ,qu4 ,whether this bank  
was not obliged to issue only such notes
 as were payable at sight8  #gj4 ,qu4   
,whether it was not made a capital crime
 to forge the notes of this bank8  #ga4 

,qu4 ,whether this bank was not         
restrained from trading either by sea or
 land1 and from taking up money upon    
interest8  #gb4 ,qu4 ,whether the       
original stock thereof was not six      
millions of livres1 divided into actions
 of a thousand crowns each8  #gc4 ,qu4  
,whether the proprietors were not to    
hold general assemblies twice in the    
year1 for the regulating of their       
affairs8  #gd4 ,qu4 ,whether the        
accompts of this bank were not balanced 
twice every year8  #ge4 ,qu4 ,whether   
there were not two chests belonging to  
this bank1 the one called the general   
chest containing their specie1 their    
bills and their copper plates for the   
printing of those bills1 under the      
custody of three locks1 whereof the keys
 were kept by the director1 the         
inspector and treasurer1 also another   
called the ordinary chest1 containing   
part of the stock not exceeding two     
hundred thousand crowns1 under the key  
of the treasurer8  #gf4 ,qu4 ,whether   

out of this last mentioned sum1 each    
particular cashier was not to be        
intrusted with a share not exceeding the
 value of twenty thousand crowns at a   
time1 and that under good security8     
#gg4 ,qu4 ,whether the ,regent did not  
reserve to himself the power of calling 
this bank to account1 so often as he    
should think good1 and of appointing the
 inspector8  #gh4 ,qu4 ,whether in the  
beginning of the year #agai the ,french 
,king did not convert the general bank  
of ,france into a ,banque ,royale1      
having himself purchased the stock of   
the company and taken it into his own   
hands1 and appointed the ,duke of       
,orleans chief manager thereof8  #gi4   
,qu4 ,whether from that time1 all       
matters relating to the bank were not   
transacted in the name1 and by the sole 
authority1 of the king8  #hj4 ,qu4      
,whether his ,majesty did not undertake 
to receive and keep the cash of all     
particular persons1 subjects1 or        
foreigners1 in his said ,royale ,banque1

 without being paid for that trouble8   
,and whether it was not declared1 that  
such cash should not be liable to       
seizure on any pretext1 not even on the 
king's own account8  #ha4 ,qu4 ,whether 
the treasurer alone did not sign all the
 bills1 receive all the stock paid into 
the bank1 and keep account of all the   
in-goings and out-goings8  #hb4 ,qu4    
,whether there were not three registers 
for the enregistering of the bills kept 
in the ,banque ,royale1 one by the      
inspector1 another by the controller1   
and a third by the treasurer8  #hc4 ,qu4
 ,whether there was not also a fourth   
register1 containing the profits of the 
bank1 which was visited1 at least once a
 week1 by the inspector and controller8 
#hd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 beside the general  
bureau or compter in the city of ,paris1
 there were not also appointed five more
 in the towns of ,lyons1 ,tours1        
,rochelle1 ,orleans1 and ,amiens1 each  
whereof was provided with two chests1   
one of specie for discharging bills at  

sight1 and another of bank bills to be  
issued as there should be demand8  #he4 
,qu4 ,whether1 in the above mentioned   
towns1 it was not prohibited to make    
payments in silver1 exceeding the sum of
 six hundred livres8  #hf4 ,qu4 ,whether
 all creditors were not empowered to    
demand payment in bank bills instead of 
specie8  #hg4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in a short 
compass of time1 this bank did not      
undergo many new changes and regulations
 by several successive acts of council8 
#hh4 ,qu4 ,whether the untimely1        
repeated1 and boundless fabrication of  
bills did not precipitate the ruin of   
this bank8  #hi4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not
 true1 that before the end of ,july1    
#agai1 they had fabricated four hundred 
millions of livres in bank-notes1 to    
which they added the sum of one hundred 
and twenty millions more on the twelfth 
of ,september following1 also the same  
sum of one hundred and twenty millions  
on the twenty-fourth of #c ,october1 and
 again on the twenty-ninth of ,december1

 in the same year1 the farther sum of   
three hundred and sixty millions1 making
 the whole1 from an original stock of   
six millions1 mount1 within the compass 
of one year1 to a thousand millions of  
livres8  #ij4 ,qu4 ,whether on the      
twenty-eighth of ,february1 #agbj1 the  
king did not make an union of the bank  
with the united company of the ,east and
 ,west ,indies1 which from that time had
 the administration and profits of the  
,banque ,royale8  #ia4 ,qu4 ,whether the
 king did not still profess himself     
responsible for the value of the bank   
bills1 and whether the company were not 
responsible to his ,majesty for their   
management8  #ib4 ,qu4 ,whether sixteen 
hundred millions of livres1 lent to his 
majesty by the company1 was not a       
sufficient pledge to indemnify the king8
  #ic4 ,qu4 ,whether the new directors  
were not prohibited to make any more    
bills without an act of council8  #id4  
,qu4 ,whether the chests and books of   
the ,banque were not subjected to the   

joint inspection of a ,counsellor of    
,state1 and the ,prevot des ,marchands1 
assisted by two ,echevins1 a judge1 and 
a consul1 who had power to visit when   
they would and without warning8  #ie4   
,qu4 ,whether in less than two years the
 actions or shares of the ,indian       
,company 7first established for         
,mississippi1 and afterwards increased  
by the addition of other compares and   
further8 and whether this privileges7   
did not rise to near #bjjj per cent must
 be ascribed to real advantages of      
trade1 or to mere frenzy8  #if4 ,qu4    
,whether1 from first to last1 there were
 not fabricated bank bills1 of one kind 
or other1 to the value of more than two 
thousand and six hundred millions of    
livres1 or one hundred and thirty       
millions sterling8  #ig4 ,qu4 ,whether  
the credit of the bank did not decline  
from its union with the ,indian         
,company8  #ih4 ,qu4 ,whether1          
notwithstanding all the above-mentioned 
extraordinary measures1 the bank bills  

did not still pass at par with gold and 
silver to ,may1 #agbj1 when the ,french 
king thought fit1 by a new act of       
council1 to make a reduction of their   
value1 which proved a fatal blow1 the   
effects whereof1 though soon retracted1 
no subsequent skill or management could 
ever repair8  #ii4 ,qu4 ,whether1 what  
no reason1 reflexion1 or foresight could
 do1 this simple matter of fact 7the    
most powerful argument with the         
multitude7 did not do at once1 to wit1  
open the eyes of the people8  #ajj4 ,qu4
 ,whether the dealers in that sort of   
ware had ever troubled their heads with 
the nature of credit1 or the true use   
and end of banks1 but only considered   
their bills and actions as things1 to   
which the general demand gave a price8  
#aja4 ,qu4 ,whether the ,government was 
not in great perplexity to contrive     
expedients for the getting rid of those 
bank bills1 which had been lately       
multiplied with such an unlimited       
passion8  #ajb4 ,qu4 ,whether notes to  

the value of about ninety millions were 
not sunk by being paid off in specie1   
with the cash of the ,compagnie des     
,indes1 with that of the bank1 and that 
of the ,hotels des ,monnoyes8 ,whether  
five hundred and thirty millions were   
not converted into annuities at the     
royal treasury8 ,whether several hundred
 millions more in bank bills were not   
extinguished and replaced by annuities  
on the ,city of ,paris1 on taxes        
throughout the provinces1 c41 c8  #ajc4 
,qu4 ,whether1 after all other shifts1  
the last and grand resource for         
exhausting that ocean1 was not the      
erecting of a compte en banc in several 
towns of ,france8  #ajd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 
when the imagination of a people is     
thoroughly wrought upon and heated by   
their own example1 and the arts of      
designing men1 this doth not produce a  
sort of enthusiasm which takes place of 
reason1 and is the most dangerous       
distemper in a ,state8  #aje4 ,qu4      
,whether this epidemical madness should 

not be always before the eyes of a      
legislature1 in the framing of a        
national bank8  #ajf4 ,qu4 ,whether1    
therefore1 it may not be fatal to       
engraft trade on a national bank1 or to 
propose dividends on the stock thereof8 
#ajg4 ,qu4 ,whether it be possible for a
 national bank to subsist and maintain  
its credit under a ,french government8  
#ajh4 ,qu4 ,whether it may not be as    
useful a lesson to consider the bad     
management of some as the good          
management of others8  #aji4 ,qu4       
,whether the rapid and surprising       
success of the schemes of those who     
directed the ,french bank did not turn  
their brains8  #aaj4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
best institutions may not be made       
subservient to bad ends8  #aaa4 ,qu4    
,whether1 as the aim of industry is     
power1 and the aim of a bank is to      
circulate and secure this power to each 
individual1 it doth not follow that     
absolute power in one hand is           
inconsistent with a lasting and a       

flourishing bank8  #aab4 ,qu4 ,whether  
our natural appetites1 as well as       
powers1 are not limited to their        
respective ends and uses8 ,but whether  
artificial appetites may not be         
infinite8  #aac4 ,qu4 ,whether the      
simple getting of money1 or passing it  
from hand to hand without industry1 be  
an object worthy of a wise government8  
#aad4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if money be        
considered as an end1 the appetite      
thereof be not infinite8 ,but whether   
the ends of money itself be not bounded8
  #aae4 ,qu4 ,whether the mistaking of  
the means for the end was not a         
fundamental error in the ,french        
councils8  #aaf4 ,qu4 ,whether the total
 sum of all other powers1 be it of      
enjoyment or action1 which belong to    
man1 or to all mankind together1 is not 
in truth a very narrow and limited      
quantity8 ,but whether fancy is not     
boundless8  #aag4 ,qu4 ,whether this    
capricious tyrant1 which usurps the     
place of reason1 doth not most cruelly  

torment and delude those poor men1 the  
usurers1 stockjobbers1 and projectors1  
of content to themselves from heaping up
 riches1 that is1 from gathering        
counters1 from multiplying figures1 from
 enlarging denominations1 without       
knowing what they would be at1 and      
without having a proper regard to the   
use or end or nature of things8  #aah4  
,qu4 ,whether the ignis fatuus of fancy 
doth not kindle immoderate desires1 and 
lead men into endless pursuits and wild 
labyrinths8  #aai4 ,qu4 ,whether        
counters be not referred to other       
things1 which1 so long as they keep pace
 and proportion with the counters1 it   
must be owned the counters are useful2  
but whether beyond that to value or     
covet counters be not direct folly8     
#abj4 ,qu4 ,whether the public aim ought
 not to be1 that men's industry should  
supply their present wants1 and the     
overplus be converted into a stock of   
power8  #aba4 ,qu4 ,whether the better  
this power is secured1 and the more     

easily it is transferred1 industry be   
not so much the more encouraged8  #abb4 
,qu4 ,whether money1 more than is       
expedient for those purposes1 be not    
upon the whole hurtful rather than      
beneficial to a ,state8  #abc4 ,qu4     
,whether there should not be a constant 
care to keep the bills at par8  #abd4   
,qu4 ,whether1 therefore1 bank bills    
should at any time be multiplied but as 
trade and business were also multiplied8
  #abe4 ,qu4 ,whether it was not madness
 in ,france to mint bills and actions1  
merely to humour the people and rob them
 of their cash8  #abf4 ,qu4 ,whether we 
may not profit by their mistakes1 and as
 some things are to be avoided1 whether 
there may not be others worthy of       
imitation in the conduct of our         
neighbours8  #abg4 ,qu4 ,whether the way
 be not clear and open and easy1 and    
whether anything but the will is wanting
 to our legislature8  #abh4 ,qu4        
,whether jobs and tricks are not        
detested on all hands1 but whether it be

 not the joint interest of prince and   
people to promote industry8  #abi4 ,qu4 
,whether1 all things considered1 a      
national bank be not the most           
practicable1 sure1 and speedy method to 
mend our affairs1 and cause industry to 
flourish among us8  #acj4 ,qu4 ,whether 
a compte en banc or current bank bills  
would best answer our occasions8  #aca4 
,qu4 ,whether a public compte en banc1  
where effects are received1 and accounts
 kept with particular persons1 be not an
 excellent expedient for a great city8  
#acb4 ,qu4 ,what effect a general compte
 en banc would have in the metropolis of
 this kingdom with one in each province 
subordinate thereunto8  #acc4 ,qu4      
,whether it may not be proper for a     
great kingdom to unite both expedients1 
to wit1 bank notes and a compte en banc8
  #acd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 nevertheless1 it 
would be advisable to begin with both at
 once1 or rather to proceed first with  
the bills1 and afterwards1 as business  
multiplied1 and money or effects flowed 

in1 to open the compte en banc8  #ace4  
,qu4 ,whether1 for greater security1    
double books of compte en banc should   
not be kept in different places and     
hands8  #acf4 ,qu4 ,whether it would not
 be right to build the compters and     
public treasuries1 where books and bank 
notes are kept1 without wood1 all arched
 and floored with brick or stone1 having
 chests also and cabinets of iron8      
#acg4 ,qu4 ,whether divers registers of 
the bank notes should not be kept in    
different hands8  #ach4 ,qu4 ,whether   
there should not be great discretion in 
the uttering of bank notes1 and whether 
the attempting to do things per saltum  
be not often the way to undo them8      
#aci4 ,qu4 ,whether the main art be not 
by slow degrees and cautious measures to
 reconcile the bank to the public1 to   
wind it insensibly into the affections  
of men1 and interweave it with the      
constitution8  #adj4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
promoting of industry should not be     
always in view1 as the true and sole    

end1 the rule and measure1 of a national
 bank8 ,and whether all deviations from 
that object should not be carefully     
avoided8  #ada4 ,qu4 ,whether a national
 bank may not prevent the drawing of    
specie out of the country 7where it     
circulates in small payments71 to be    
shut up in the chests of particular     
persons8  #adb4 ,qu4 ,whether it may not
 be useful1 for supplying manufactures  
and trade with stock1 for regulating    
exchange1 for quickening commerce1 for  
putting spirit into the people8  #adc4  
,qu4 ,whether tenants or debtors could  
have cause to complain of our monies    
being reduced to the ,english value if  
it were withal multiplied in the same1  
or in a greater proportion8 and whether 
this would not be the consequence of a  
nation al bank8  #add4 ,qu4 ,if there be
 an open sure way to thrive1 without    
hazard to ourselves or prejudice to our 
neighbours1 what should hinder us from  
putting it in practice8  #ade4 ,qu4     
,whether in so numerous a ,senate1 as   

that of this kingdom1 it may not be     
easie to find men of pure hands and     
clear heads fit to contrive and model a 
public bank8  #adf4 ,qu4 ,whether a view
 of the precipice be not sufficient1 or 
whether we must tumble headlong before  
we are roused8  #adg4 ,qu4 ,whether in  
this drooping and dispirited country1   
men are quite awake8  #adh4 ,qu4        
,whether we are sufficiently sensible of
 the peculiar security there is in      
having a bank that consists of land and 
paper1 one of which cannot be exported1 
and the other is in no danger of being  
exported8  #adi4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not
 delightful to complain8 ,and whether   
there be not many who had rather utter  
their complaints than redress their     
evils8  #aej4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if 'the    
crown of the wise be their riches'      
7,prov41 xiv4#bd71 we are not the       
foolishest people in ,christendom8      
#aea4 ,qu4 ,whether we have not all the 
while great civil as well as natural    
advantages8  #aeb4 ,qu4 ,whether there  

be any people who have more leisure to  
cultivate the arts of peace1 and study  
the public weal8  #aec4 ,qu4 ,whether   
other nations who enjoy any share of    
freedom1 and have great objects in view1
 be not unavoidably embarrassed and     
distracted by factions8 ,but whether we 
do not divide upon trifles1 and whether 
our parties are not a burlesque upon    
politics8  #aed4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not
 an advantage that we are not embroiled 
in foreign affairs1 that we hold not the
 balance of ,europe1 that we are        
protected by other fleets and armies1   
that it is the true interest of a       
powerful people1 from whom we are       
descended1 to guard us on all sides8    
#aee4 ,qu4 ,whether ,england doth not   
really love us and wish well to us1 as  
bone of her bone1 and flesh of her      
flesh8 ,and whether it be not our part  
to cultivate this love and affection all
 manner of ways8  #aef4 ,qu4 ,whether1  
if we do not reap the benefits that may 
be made of our country and government1  

want of will in the lower people1 or    
want of wit in the upper1 be most in    
fault8  #aeg4 ,qu4 ,what sea-ports or   
foreign trade have the ,swisses2 and yet
 how warm are those people1 and how well
 provided8  #aeh4 ,qu4 ,whether there   
may not be found a people who so        
contrive as to be impoverished by their 
trade8 ,and whether we are not that     
people8  #aei4 ,qu4 ,whether it would   
not be better for this island1 if all   
our fine folk of both sexes were shipped
 off1 to remain in foreign countries1   
rather than that they should spend their
 estates at home in foreign luxury1 and 
spread the contagion thereof through    
their native land8  #afj4 ,qu4 ,whether 
our gentry understand or have a notion  
of magnificence1 and whether for want   
thereof they do not affect very wretched
 distinctions8  #afa4 ,qu4 ,whether     
there be not an art or skill in         
governing human pride1 so as to render  
it subservient to the pubic aim8  #afb4 
,qu4 ,whether the great and general aim 

of the public should not be to employ   
the people8  #afc4 ,qu4 ,what right an  
eldest son hath to the worst education8 
#afd4 ,qu4 ,whether men's counsels are  
not the result of their knowledge and   
their principles8  #afe4 ,qu4 ,whether  
an assembly of freethinkers1 petit      
maitres1 and smart ,fellows would not   
make an admirable ,senate8  #aff4 ,qu4  
,whether there be not labour of the     
brains as well as of the hands1 and     
whether the former is beneath a         
gentleman8  #afg4 ,qu4 ,whether the     
public be more interested to protect the
 property acquired by mere birth than   
that which is the ,mediate fruit of     
learning and vertue8  #afh4 ,qu4        
,whether it would not be a poor and     
ill-judged project to attempt to promote
 the good of the community1 by invading 
the rights of one part thereof1 or of   
one particular order of men8  #afi4 ,qu4
 ,whether the public happiness be not   
proposed by the legislature1 and whether
 such happiness doth not contain that of

 the individuals8  #agj4 ,qu4 ,whether1 
therefore1 a legislator should be       
content with a vulgar share of          
knowledge8 ,whether he should not be a  
person of reflexion and thought1 who    
hath made it his study to understand the
 true nature and interest of mankind1   
how to guide men's humours and passions1
 how to incite their active powers1 how 
to make their several talents co-operate
 to the mutual benefit of each other1   
and the general good of the whole8      
#aga4 ,qu4 ,whether it doth not follow  
that above all things a gentleman's care
 should be to keep his own faculties    
sound and entire8  #agb4 ,qu4 ,whether  
the natural phlegm of this island needs 
any additional stupefier8  #agc4 ,qu4   
,whether all spirituous liquors are not 
in truth opiates8  #agd4 ,qu4 ,whether  
our men of business are not generally   
very grave by fifty8  #age4 ,qu4        
,whether there be really among us any   
parents so silly1 as to encourage       
drinking in their children8  #agf4 ,qu4 

,whence it is1 that our ladies are more 
alive1 and bear age so much better than 
our gentlemen8  #agg4 ,qu4 ,whether all 
men have not faculties of mind or body  
which may be employed for the public    
benefit8  #agh4 ,qu4 ,whether the main  
point be not to multiply and employ our 
people8  #agi4 ,qu4 ,whether hearty food
 and warm clothing would not enable and 
encourage the lower sort to labour8     
#ahj4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in such a soil as  
ours1 if there was industry1 there could
 be want8  #aha4 ,qu4 ,whether the way  
to make men industrious be not to let   
them taste the fruits of their industry8
 ,and whether the labouring ox should be
 muzzled8  #ahb4 ,qu4 ,whether our      
landlords are to be told that industry  
and numbers would raise the value of    
their lands1 or that one acre about the 
,tholsel is worth ten thousand acres in 
,connaught8  #ahc4 ,qu4 ,whether our old
 native ,irish are not the most indolent
 and supine people in ,christendom8     
#ahd4 ,qu4 ,whether they are yet        

civilized1 and whether their habitations
 and furniture are not more sordid than 
those of the savage ,americans8  #ahe4  
,qu4 ,whether this be altogether their  
own fault8  #ahf4 ,qu4 ,whether it be   
not a sad circumstance to live among    
lazy beggars8 ,and whether1 on the other
 hand1 it would not be delightful to    
live in a country swarming1 like ,china1
 with busy people8  #ahg4 ,qu4 ,whether 
we should not cast about1 by all manner 
of means1 to excite industry1 and to    
remove whatever hinders it8 ,and whether
 every one should not lend a helping    
hand8  #ahh4 ,qu4 ,whether vanity itself
 should not be engaged in this good     
work8 ,and whether it is not to be      
wished that the finding of employment   
for themselves and others were a        
fashionable distinction among the       
ladies8  #ahi4 ,qu4 ,whether idleness be
 the mother or the daughter of spleen8  
#aij4 ,qu4 ,whether it may not be worth 
while to publish the conversation of    
,ischomachus and his wife in ,xenophon1 

for the use of our ladies8  #aia4 ,qu4  
,whether it is true that there have     
been1 upon a time1 one hundred millions 
of people employed in ,china1 without   
the woollen trade1 or any foreign       
commerce8  #aib4 ,qu4 ,whether the      
natural inducements to sloth are not    
greater in the ,mogul's country than in 
,ireland1 and yet whether1 in that      
suffocating and dispiriting climate1 the
 ,banyans are not all1 men1 women1 and  
children1 constantly employed8  #aic4   
,qu4 ,whether it be not true that the   
great ,mogul's subjects might undersell 
us even in our own markets1 and clothe  
our people with their stuffs and        
calicoes1 if they were imported duty    
free8  #aid4 ,qu4 ,whether there can be 
a greater reproach on the leading men   
and the patriots of a country1 than that
 the people should want employment8 ,and
 whether methods may not be found to    
employ even the lame and the blind1 the 
dumb1 the deaf1 and the maimed1 in some 
or other branch of our manufactures8    

#aie4 ,qu4 ,whether much may not be     
expected from a biennial consultation of
 so many wise men about the public good8
  #aif4 ,qu4 ,whether a tax upon dirt   
would not be one way of encouraging     
industry8  #aig4 ,qu4 ,whether it may   
not be right to appoint censors in every
 parish to observe and make returns of  
the idle hands8  #aih4 ,qu4 ,whether a  
register or history of the idleness and 
industry of a people would be an useless
 thing8  #aii4 ,qu4 ,whether we are     
apprized1 of all the uses that may be   
made of political arithmetic8  #bjj4    
,qu4 ,whether it would be a great       
hardship if every parish were obliged to
 find work for their poor8  #bja4 ,qu4  
,whether children especially should not 
be inured to labour betimes8  #bjb4 ,qu4
 ,whether there should not be erected1  
in each province1 an hospital for       
orphans and foundlings1 at the expense  
of old bachelors8  #bjc4 ,qu4 ,whether  
it be true that in the ,dutch workhouses
 things are so managed that a child four

 years old may earn its own livelihood8 
#bjd4 ,qu4 ,what a folly is it to build 
fine houses1 or establish lucrative     
posts and large incomes1 under the      
notion of providing for the poor8  #bje4
 ,qu4 ,whether the poor1 grown up and in
 health1 need any other provision but   
their own industry1 under public        
inspection8  #bjf4 ,qu4 ,whether the    
poor-tax in ,england hath lessened or   
increased the number of the poor8  #bjg4
 ,qu4 ,why the workhouse in ,dublin1    
with so good an endowment1 should yet be
 of so little use8 and whether this may 
not be owing to that very endowment8    
#bjh4 ,qu4 ,whether that income might   
not1 by this time1 have gone through the
 whole kingdom1 and erected a dozen     
workhouses in every county8  #bji4 ,qu4 
,whether workhouses should not be made  
at the least expense1 with clay floors1 
and walls of rough stone1 without       
plastering1 ceiling1 or glazing8  #baj4 
,qu4 ,whether the tax on chairs or      
hackney coaches be not paid1 rather by  

the country gentlemen1 than the citizens
 of ,dublin8  #baa4 ,qu4 ,whether it be 
an impossible attempt to set our people 
at work1 or whether industry be a habit 
which1 like other habits1 may by time   
and skill be introduced among any       
people8  #bab4 ,qu4 ,whether all manner 
of means should not be employed to      
possess the nation in general with an   
aversion and contempt for idleness and  
all idle folk8  #bac4 ,qu4 ,whether it  
would be a hardship on people destitute 
of all things1 if the public furnished  
them with necessaries which they should 
be obliged to earn by their labour8     
#bad4 ,qu4 ,whether other nations have  
not found great benefit from the use of 
slaves in repairing high roads1 making  
rivers navigable1 draining bogs1        
erecting public buildings1 bridges1 and 
manufactures8  #bae4 ,qu4 ,whether      
temporary servitude would not be the    
best cure for idleness and beggary8     
#baf4 ,qu4 ,whether the public hath not 
a right to employ those who cannot or   

who will not find employment for        
themselves8  #bag4 ,qu4 ,whether all    
sturdy beggars should not be seized and 
made slaves to the public for a certain 
term of years8  #bah4 ,qu4 ,whether he  
who is chained in a jail or dungeon hath
 not1 for the time1 lost his liberty8   
,and if so1 whether temporary slavery be
 not already admitted among us8  #bai4  
,qu4 ,whether a state of servitude1     
wherein he should be well worked1 fed1  
and clothed1 would not be a preferment  
to such a fellow8  #bbj4 ,qu4 ,whether  
criminals in the freest country may not 
forfeit their liberty1 and repair the   
damage they have done the public by hard
 labour8  #bba4 ,qu4 ,what the word     
'servant' signifies in the ,new         
,testament8  #bbb4 ,qu4 ,whether the    
view of criminals chained in pairs and  
kept at hard labour would not be very   
edifying to the multitude8  #bbc4 ,qu4  
,whether the want of such an institution
 be not plainly seen in ,england1 where 
the disbelief of a future state         

hardeneth rogues against the fear of    
death1 and where1 through the great     
growth of robbers and housebreakers1 it 
becomes every day more necessary8  #bbd4
 ,qu4 ,whether it be not easier to      
prevent than to remedy1 and whether we  
should not profit by the example of     
others8  #bbe4 ,qu4 ,whether felons are 
not often spared1 and therefore         
encouraged1 by the compassion of those  
who should prosecute them8  #bbf4 ,qu4  
,whether many that would not take away  
the life of a thief may not nevertheless
 be willing to bring him to a more      
adequate punishment8  #bbg4 ,qu4        
,whether there should not be a          
difference between the treatment of     
criminals and that of other slaves8     
#bbh4 ,qu4 ,whether the most indolent   
would be fond of idleness1 if they      
regarded it as the sure road to hard    
labour8  #bbi4 ,qu4 ,whether the        
industry of the lower part of our people
 doth not much depend on the expense of 
the upper8  #bcj4 ,qu4 ,what would be   

the consequence if our gentry affected  
to distinguish themselves by fine houses
 rather than fine clothes8  #bca4 ,qu4  
,whether any people in ,europe are so   
meanly provided with houses and         
furniture1 in proportion to their       
incomes1 as the men of estates in       
,ireland8  #bcb4 ,qu4 ,whether building 
would not peculiarly encourage all other
 arts in this kingdom8  #bcc4 ,qu4      
,whether smiths1 masons1 bricklayers1   
plasterers1 carpenters1 joiners1 tilers1
 plumbers1 and glaziers would not all   
find employment if the humour of        
building prevailed8  #bcd4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the ornaments and furniture of a good  
house do not employ a number of all     
sorts of artificers1 in iron1 wood1     
marble1 brass1 pewter1 copper1 wool1    
flax1 and divers other materials8  #bce4
 ,qu4 ,whether in buildings and gardens 
a great number of day-labourers do not  
find employment8  #bcf4 ,qu4 ,whether by
 these means much of that sustenance and
 wealth of this nation which now goes to

 foreigners would not be kept at home1  
and nourish and circulate among our own 
people8  #bcg4 ,qu4 ,whether1 as        
industry produced good living1 the      
number of hands and mouths would not be 
increased2 and in proportion thereunto1 
whether there would not be every day    
more occasion for agriculture8 ,and     
whether this article alone would not    
employ a world of people8  #bch4 ,qu4   
,whether such management would not      
equally provide for the magnificence of 
the rich1 and the necessities of the    
poor8  #bci4 ,qu4 ,whether an expense in
 building and improvements doth not     
remain at home1 pass to the heir1 and   
adorn the public8 ,and whether any of   
those things can be said of claret8     
#bdj4 ,qu4 ,whether fools do not make   
fashions1 and wise men follow them8     
#bda4 ,qu4 ,whether1 for one who hurts  
his fortune by improvements1 twenty do  
not ruin themselves by foreign luxury8  
#bdb4 ,qu4 ,whether in proportion as    
,ireland was improved and beautified by 

fine seats1 the number of absentees     
would not decrease8  #bdc4 ,qu4 ,whether
 he who employs men in buildings and    
manufactures doth not put life in the   
country1 and whether the neighbourhood  
round him be not observed to thrive8    
#bdd4 ,qu4 ,whether money circulated on 
the landlord's own lands1 and among his 
own tenants1 doth not return into his   
own pocket8  #bde4 ,qu4 ,whether every  
squire that made his domain swarm with  
busy hands1 like a bee-hive or ant-hill1
 would not serve his own interest1 as   
well as that of his country8  #bdf4 ,qu4
 ,whether a gentleman who hath seen a   
little of the world1 and observed how   
men live elsewhere1 can contentedly sit 
down in a cold1 damp1 sordid habitation1
 in the midst of a bleak country1       
inhabited by thieves and beggars8  #bdg4
 ,qu4 ,whether1 on the other hand1 a    
handsome seat amidst well-improved      
lands1 fair villages1 and a thriving    
neighbourhood may not invite a man to   
dwell on his own estate1 and quit the   

life of an insignificant saunterer about
 town for that of a useful              
country-gentleman8  #bdh4 ,qu4 ,whether 
it would not be of use and ornament if  
the towns throughout this kingdom were  
provided with decent churches1          
townhouses1 workhouses1 market-places1  
and paved streets1 with some order taken
 for cleanliness8  #bdi4 ,qu4 ,whether1 
if each of these towns were addicted to 
some peculiar manufacture1 we should not
 find that the employing many hands     
together on the same work was the way to
 perfect our workmen8 ,and whether all  
these things might not soon be provided 
by a domestic industry1 if money were   
not wanting8  #bej4 ,qu4 ,whether money 
could ever be wanting to the demands of 
industry1 if we had a national bank8    
#bea4 ,qu4 ,whether when a motion was   
made once upon a time to establish a    
private bank in this kingdom by public  
authority1 divers gentlemen did not shew
 themselves forward to embark in that   
design8  #beb4 ,qu4 ,whether it may not 

now be hoped1 that our patriots will be 
as forward to examine and consider the  
proposal of a public bank calculated    
only for the public good8  #bec4 ,qu4   
,whether any people upon earth shew a   
more early zeal for the service of their
 country1 greater eagerness to bear a   
part in the legislature1 or a more      
general parturiency with respect to     
politics and public counsels8  #bed4    
,qu4 ,whether1 nevertheless1 a light and
 ludicrous vein be not the reigning     
humour2 but whether there was ever      
greater cause to be serious8   ,,finis4 
,,erratum   ,qu4 #afh1 for ,indulg'd1   
read ill judg'd4       ,part ,,iii      
,query #a4  ,whether the fable of       
,hercules and the carter ever suited any
 nation like this nation of ,ireland8   
#b4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not a new       
spectacle under the sun1 to behold1 in  
such a climate and such a soil1 and     
under such a gentle government1 so many 
roads untrodden1 fields untilled1 houses
 desolate1 and hands unemployed8  #c4   

,qu4 ,whether there is any country in   
,christendom1 either kingdom or         
republic1 depending or independent1 free
 or enslaved1 which may not afford us a 
useful lesson8  #d4 ,qu4 ,whether the   
frugal ,swisses have any other          
commodities but their butter and cheese 
and a few cattle1 for exportation2      
whether1 nevertheless1 the single canton
 of ,berne hath not in her public       
treasury two millions sterling8  #e4    
,qu4 ,whether that small town of ,berne1
 with its scanty barren territory1 in a 
mountainous corner1 without sea-ports1  
without manufactures1 without mines1 be 
not rich by mere dint of frugality8  #f4
 ,qu4 ,whether the ,swisses in general  
have not sumptuary laws1 prohibiting the
 use of gold1 jewels1 silver1 silk1 and 
lace in their apparel1 and indulging the
 women only to wear silk on festivals1  
weddings1 and public solemnities8  #g4  
,qu4 ,whether there be not two ways of  
growing rich1 sparing and getting8 ,but 
whether the lazy spendthrift must not be

 doubly poor8  #h4 ,qu4 ,whether money  
circulating be not the life of industry2
 and whether the want thereof doth not  
render a ,state gouty and inactive8  #i4
 ,qu4 ,but whether1 if we had a national
 bank1 and our present cash 7small as it
 is7 were put into the most convenient  
shape1 men should hear any public       
complaints for want of money8  #aj4 ,qu4
 ,whether all circulation be not alike a
 circulation of credit1 whatsoever      
medium 7metal or paper7 is employed1 and
 whether gold be any more than credit   
for so much power8  #aa4 ,qu4 ,whether  
the wealth of the richest nations in    
,christendom doth not consist in paper  
vastly more than in gold and silver8    
#ab4 ,qu4 ,whether ,lord ,clarendon doth
 not aver of his own knowledge1 that the
 ,prince of ,orange1 with the best      
credit1 and the assistance of the       
richest men in ,amsterdam1 was above ten
 days endeavouring to raise ,l#bj1jjj in
 specie1 without being able to raise    
half the sum in all that time8 7,see    

,clarendon's ,history1 ,,bk4 ,,xii7     
#ac4 ,qu4 ,whether the whole city of    
,amsterdam would not have been troubled 
to have brought together twenty thousand
 pounds in one room8  #ad4 ,qu4 ,whether
 it be not absolutely necessary that    
there must be a bank and must be a      
trust8 ,and1 if so1 whether it be not   
the most safe and prudent course to have
 a national bank and trust the          
legislature8  #ae4 ,qu4 ,whether        
objections against trust in general     
avail1 when it is allowed there must be 
a trust1 and the only question is where 
to place this trust1 whether in the     
legislature or in private hands8  #af4  
,qu4 ,whether it can be expected that   
private persons should have more regard 
to the public than the public itself8   
#ag4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if there be hazards 
from mismanagement1 those may not be    
provided against in the framing of a    
pubic bank2 but whether any provision   
can be made against the mismanagement of
 private banks that are under no check1 

control1 or inspection8  #ah4 ,qu4      
,whatever may be said for the sake of   
objecting1 yet1 whether it be not false 
in fact1 that men would prefer a private
 security to a public security8  #ai4   
,qu4 ,whether a national bank ought to  
be considered as a new experiment2 and  
whether it be not a motive to try this  
scheme that it hath been already tried  
with success in other countries8  #bj4  
,qu4 ,if power followeth money1 whether 
this can be anywhere more properly and  
securely placed1 than in the same hands 
wherein the supreme power is already    
placed8  #ba4 ,qu4 ,whether there be    
more danger of abuse in a private than  
in a public management8  #bb4 ,qu4      
,whether the proper usual remedy for    
abuses of private banks be not to bring 
them before ,parliament1 and subject    
them to the inspection of a committee2  
and whether it be not more prudent to   
prevent than to redress an evil8  #bc4  
,qu4 ,supposing there had been hitherto 
no such thing as a bank1 and the        

question were now first proposed1       
whether it would be safer to circulate  
unlimited bills in a private credit1 or 
bills to a limited value on the public  
credit of the community1 what would men 
think8  #bd4 ,qu4 ,whether experience   
and example be not the plainest proof2  
and whether any instance can be assigned
 where a national bank hath not been    
attended with great advantage to the    
public8  #be4 ,qu4 ,whether the evils   
apprehended from a national bank are not
 much more to be apprehended from       
private banks2 but whether men by custom
 are not familiarized and reconciled to 
common dangers1 which are therefore     
thought less than they really are8  #bf4
 ,qu4 ,whether it would not be very hard
 to suppose all sense1 honesty1 and     
public spirit were in the keeping of    
only a few private men1 and the public  
was not fit to be trusted8  #bg4 ,qu4   
,whether it be not ridiculous to suppose
 a legislature should be afraid to trust
 itself8  #bh4 ,qu4 ,but1 whether a     

private interest be not generally       
supported and pursued with more zeal    
than a public8  #bi4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
maxim1 ',what is everybody's business is
 nobody's1' prevails in any country     
under the sun more than in ,ireland8    
#cj4 ,qu4 ,whether1 nevertheless1 the   
community of danger1 which lulls private
 men asleep1 ought not to awaken the    
public8  #ca4 ,qu4 ,whether there be not
 less security where there are more     
temptations and fewer checks8  #cb4 ,qu4
 ,if a man is to risk his fortune1      
whether it be more prudent to risk it on
 the credit of private men1 or in that  
of the great assembly of the nation8    
#cc4 ,qu4 ,where is it most reasonable  
to expect wise and punctual dealing1    
whether in a secret impenetrable recess1
 where credit depends on secrecy1 or in 
a public management regulated and       
inspected by ,parliament8  #cd4 ,qu4    
,whether a supine security be not       
catching1 and whether numbers running   
the same risk1 as they lessen the       

caution1 may not increase the danger8   
#ce4 ,qu4 ,what real objection lies     
against a national bank erected by the  
legislature1 and in the management of   
public deputies1 appointed and inspected
 by the legislature8  #cf4 ,qu4 ,what   
have we to fear from such a bank1 which 
may not be as well feared without it8   
#cg4 ,qu4 ,how1 why1 by what means1 or  
for what end1 should it become an       
instrument of oppression8  #ch4 ,qu4    
,whether we can possibly be on a more   
precarious foot than we are already8    
,whether it be not in the power of any  
particular person at once to disappear  
and convey himself into foreign parts8  
or whether there can be any security in 
an estate of land when the demands upon 
it are unknown8  #ci4 ,qu4 ,whether the 
establishing of a national bank1 if we  
suppose a concurrence of the government1
 be not very practicable8  #dj4 ,qu4    
,but1 whether though a scheme be never  
so evidently practicable and useful to  
the pubic1 yet1 if conceived to         

interfere with a private interest1 it be
 not forthwith in danger of appearing   
doubtful1 difficult1 and impracticable8 
#da4 ,qu4 ,whether the legislative body 
hath not already sufficient power to    
hurt1 if they may be supposed capable of
 it1 and whether a bank would give them 
any new power8  #db4 ,qu4 ,what should  
tempt the pubic to defraud itself8  #dc4
 ,qu4 ,whether1 if the legislature      
destroyed the public1 it would not be   
felo de se2 and whether it be reasonable
 to suppose it bent on its own          
destruction8  #dd4 ,qu4 ,whether the    
objection to a pubic national bank1 from
 want of secrecy1 be not in truth an    
argument for it8  #de4 ,qu4 ,whether the
 secrecy of private banks be not the    
very thing that renders them so         
hazardous8 and whether1 without that1   
there could have been of late so many   
sufferers8  #df4 ,qu4 ,whether when all 
objections are answered it be still     
incumbent to answer surmises8  #dg4 ,qu4
 ,whether it were just to insinuate that

 gentlemen would be against any proposal
 they could not turn into a job8  #dh4  
,qu4 ,suppose the legislature passed    
their word for any private banker1 and  
regularly visited his books1 would not  
money lodged in his bank be therefore   
reckoned more secure8  #di4 ,qu4 ,in a  
country where the legislative body is   
not fit to be trusted1 what security can
 there be for trusting any one else8    
#ej4 ,qu4 ,if it be not ridiculous to   
question whether the pubic can find cash
 to circulate bills of a limited value  
when private bankers are supposed to    
find enough to circulate them to an     
unlimited value8  #ea4 ,qu4 ,whether the
 united stock of a nation be not the    
best security8 ,and whether anything but
 the ruin of the ,state can produce a   
national bankruptcy8  #eb4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the total sum of the public treasure1  
power1 and wisdom1 all co-operating1 be 
not most likely to establish a bank of  
credit1 sufficient to answer the ends1  
relieve the wants1 and satisfy the      

scruples of all people8  #ec4 ,qu4      
,whether those hazards that in a greater
 degree attend private banks can be     
admitted as objections against a public 
one8  #ed4 ,qu4 ,whether that which is  
an objection to everything be an        
objection to anything2 and whether the  
possibility of an abuse be not of that  
kind8  #ee4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in fact1 all 
things are not more or less abused1 and 
yet notwithstanding such abuse1 whether 
many things are not upon the whole      
expedient and useful8  #ef4 ,qu4        
,whether those things that are subject  
to the most general inspection are not  
the least subject to abuse8  #eg4 ,qu4  
,whether1 for private ends1 it may not  
be sometimes expedient to object novelty
 to things that have been often tried1  
difficulty to the plainest things1 and  
hazard to the safest8  #eh4 ,qu4        
,whether some men will not be apt to    
argue as if the question was between    
money and credit1 and not 7as in fact it
 is7 which ought to be preferred1       

private credit or public credit8  #ei4  
,qu4 ,whether they will not prudently   
overlook the evils felt1 or to be       
feared1 on one side8  #fj4 ,qu4         
,whether1 therefore1 those that would   
make an impartial judgment ought not to 
be on their guard1 keeping both         
prospects always in view1 balancing the 
inconveniencies on each side and        
considering neither absolutely8  #fa4   
,qu4 ,whether wilful mistakes1 examples 
without a likeness1 and general         
addresses to the passions are not often 
more successful than arguments8  #fb4   
,qu4 ,whether there be not an art to    
puzzle plain cases as well as to explain
 obscure ones8  #fc4 ,qu4 ,whether      
private men are not often an over-match 
for the public2 want of weight being    
made up for by activity8  #fd4 ,qu4 ,if 
we suppose neither sense nor honesty in 
our leaders or representatives1 whether 
we are not already undone1 and so have  
nothing further to fear8  #fe4 ,qu4     
,suppose a power in the government to   

hurt the pubic by means of a national   
bank1 yet what should give them the will
 to do this8 ,or supposing a will to do 
mischief1 yet how could a national bank1
 modelled and administered by           
,parliament1 put it in their power8     
#ff4 ,qu4 ,whether even a wicked will   
entrusted with power can be supposed to 
abuse it for no end8  #fg4 ,qu4 ,whether
 it be not much more probable that those
 who maketh such objections do not      
believe them8  #fh4 ,qu4 ,whether it be 
not vain to object that our             
fellow-subjects of ,great ,britain would
 malign or obstruct our industry when it
 is exerted in a way which cannot       
interfere with their own8  #ff4 ,qu4    
,whether it is to be supposed they      
should take delight in the dirt and     
nakedness and famine of our people1 or  
envy them shoes for their feet and beef 
for their belies8  #gj4 ,qu4 ,what      
possible handle or inclination could our
 having a national bank give other      
people to distress us8  #ga4 ,qu4       

,whether it be not ridiculous to        
conceive that a project for cloathing   
and feeding our natives should give any 
umbrage to ,england8  #gb4 ,qu4 ,whether
 such unworthy surmises are not the pure
 effect of spleen8  #gc4 ,qu4 ,whether  
,london is not to be considered as the  
metropolis of ,ireland8 ,and whether our
 wealth 7such as it is7 doth not        
circulate through ,london and throughout
 all ,england1 as freely as that of any 
part of his ,majesty's dominions8  #gd4 
,qu4 ,whether therefore it be not       
evidently the interest of the people of 
,england to encourage rather than to    
oppose a national bank in this kingdom1 
as well as every other means for        
advancing our wealth which shall not    
impair their own8  #ge4 ,qu4 ,whether it
 is not our interest to be useful to    
them rather than rival them2 and whether
 in that case we may not be sure of     
their good offices8  #gf4 ,qu4 ,whether 
we can propose to thrive so long as we  
entertain a wrongheaded distrust of     

,england8  #gg4 ,qu4 ,whether1 as a     
national bank would increase our        
industry1 and that our wealth1 ,england 
may not be a proportionable gainer2 and 
whether we should not consider the gains
 of our mother-country as some accession
 to our own8  #gh4 ,qu4 ,whether the    
,protestant colony in this kingdom can  
ever forget what they owe to ,england8  
#gi4 ,qu4 ,whether there ever was in any
 part of the world a country in such    
wretched circumstances1 and which1 at   
the same time1 could be so easily       
remedied1 and nevertheless the remedy   
not applied8  #hj4 ,qu4 ,what must      
become of a people that can neither see 
the plainest things nor do the easiest8 
#ha4 ,qu4 ,be the money lodged in the   
bank what it will1 yet whether an ,act  
to make good deficiencies would not     
remove all scruples8  #hb4 ,qu4 ,if it  
be objected that a national bank must   
lower interest1 and therefore hurt the  
monied man1 whether the same objection  
would not hold as strong against        

multiplying our gold and silver8  #hc4  
,qu4 ,but whether a bank that utters    
bills1 with the sole view of promoting  
the public weal1 may not so proportion  
their quantity as to avoid several      
inconveniencies which might attend      
private banks8  #hd4 ,qu4 ,whether there
 be any difficulty in comprehending that
 the whole wealth of the nation is in   
truth the stock of a national bank8 ,and
 whether any more than the right        
comprehension of this be necessary to   
make all men easy with regard to its    
credit8  #he4 ,qu4 ,whether any ,thing  
be more reasonable than that the pubic1 
which makes the whole profit of the     
bank1 should engage to make good its    
credit8  #hf4 ,qu4 ,whether the         
prejudices about gold and silver are not
 strong1 but whether they are not still 
prejudices8  #hg4 ,qu4 ,whether paper   
doth not by its stamp and signature     
acquire a local value1 and become as    
precious and as scarce as gold8 ,and    
whether it be not much fitter to        

circulate large sums1 and therefore     
preferable to gold8  #hh4 ,qu4 ,whether1
 in order to make men see and feel1 it  
be not often necessary to inculcate the 
same thing1 and place it in different   
lights8  #hi4 ,qu4 ,whether it doth not 
much import to have a right conception  
of money8 ,and whether its true and just
 idea be not that of a ticket1 entitling
 to power1 and fitted to record and     
transfer such power8  #ij4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the managers and officers of a national
 bank ought to be considered otherwise  
than as the cashiers and clerks of      
private banks8 ,whether they are not in 
effect as little trusted1 have as little
 power1 are as much limited by rules1   
and as liable to inspection8  #ia4 ,qu4 
,whether the mistaking this point may   
not create some prejudice against a     
national bank1 as if it depended on the 
credit1 or wisdom1 or honesty1 of       
private men1 rather than on the pubic1  
which is really the sole proprietor and 
director thereof1 and as such obliged to

 support it8  #ib4 ,qu4 ,though the bank
 of ,amsterdam doth very rarely1 if at  
all1 pay out money1 yet whether every   
man possess'd of specie be not ready to 
convert it into paper1 and act as       
cashier to the bank8 ,and whether1 from 
the same motive1 every monied man       
throughout this kingdom would not be    
cashier to our national bank8  #ic4 ,qu4
 ,whether a national bank would not be  
the great means and motive for employing
 our poor in manufactures8  #id4 ,qu4   
,whether money1 though lent out only to 
the rich1 would not soon circulate among
 the poor8 ,and whether any man borrows 
but with an intent to circulate8  #ie4  
,qu4 ,whether both government and people
 would not in the event be gainers by a 
national bank8 ,and whether anything but
 wrong conceptions of its nature can    
make those that wish well to either     
averse from it8  #if4 ,qu4 ,whether it  
may not be right to think1 and to have  
it thought1 that ,england and ,ireland1 
prince and people1 have one and the same

 interest8  #ig4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if we   
had more means to set on foot such      
manufactures and such commerce as       
consists with the interest of ,england1 
there would not of course be less       
sheep-walk1 and less wool exported to   
foreign countries8 ,and whether a       
national bank would not supply such     
means8  #ih4 ,qu4 ,whether we may not   
obtain that as friends which it is in   
vain to hope for as rivals8  #ii4 ,qu4  
,whether in every instance by which we  
prejudice ,england1 we do not in a      
greater degree prejudice ourselves8 ,see
 ,part ,,ii4 qu4 #aec and #aed4  #ajj4  
,qu4 ,whether in the rude original of   
society the first step was not the      
exchanging of commodities2 the next a   
substituting of metals by weight as the 
common medium of circulation2 after this
 the making use of coin2 lastly1 a      
further refinement by the use of paper  
with proper marks and signatures8 ,and  
whether this1 as it is the last1 so it  
be not the greatest improvement8  #aja4 

,qu4 ,whether we are not in fact the    
only people who may be said to starve in
 the midst of plenty8  #ajb4 ,qu4       
,whether business in general doth not   
languish among us8 ,whether our land is 
not untilled8 ,whether its inhabitants  
are not upon the wing8  #ajc4 ,qu4      
,whether there can be a worse sign than 
that people should quit their country   
for a livelihood8 ,though men often     
leave their country for health1 or      
pleasure1 or riches1 yet to leave it    
merely for a livelihood1 whether this be
 not exceeding bad1 and sheweth some    
peculiar mismanagement8  #ajd4 ,qu4     
,whether our circumstances do not call  
aloud for some present remedy8 ,and     
whether that remedy be not in our power8
  #aje4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in order to      
redress our evils1 artificial helps are 
not most wanted in a land where industry
 is most against the natural grain of   
the people8  #ajf4 ,qu4 ,whether1 of all
 the helps to industry that ever were   
invented1 there be any more secure1 more

 easy1 and more effectual than a        
national bank8  #ajg4 ,qu4 ,whether     
medicines do not recommend themselves by
 experience1 even though their reasons  
be obscure8 ,but whether reason and fact
 are not equally clear in favour of this
 political medicine8  #ajh4 ,qu4        
,whether1 although the prepossessions   
about gold and silver have taken deep   
root1 yet the example of our ,colonies  
in ,america doth not make it as plain as
 day-light that they are not so         
necessary to the wealth of a nation as  
the vulgar of all ranks imagine8  #aji4 
,qu4 ,whether it be not evident that we 
may maintain a much greater inward and  
outward commerce1 and be five times     
richer than we are1 nay1 and our bills  
abroad be of far greater credit1 though 
we had not one ounce of gold or silver  
in the whole island8  #aaj4 ,qu4        
,whether wrongheaded maxims1 customs1   
and fashions are not sufficient to      
destroy any people which hath so few    
resources as the inhabitants of         

,ireland4  #aaa4 ,qu4 ,whether it would 
not be a horrible thing to see our      
matrons make dress and play their chief 
concern8  #aab4 ,qu4 ,whether our ladies
 might not as well endow monasteries as 
wear ,flanders lace8 ,and whether it be 
not true that ,popish nuns are          
maintained by ,protestant contributions8
  #aac4 ,qu4 ,whether ,england1 which   
hath a free trade1 whatever she remits  
for foreign luxury with one hand1 doth  
not with the other receive much more    
from abroad8 ,whether1 nevertheless1    
this nation would not be a gainer1 if   
our women would content themselves with 
the same moderation in point of expense 
as the ,english ladies8  #aad4 ,qu4 ,but
 whether it be not a notorious truth    
that our ,irish ladies are on a foot1 as
 to dress1 with those of five times     
their fortune in ,england8  #aae4 ,qu4  
,whether it be not even certain that the
 matrons of this forlorn country send   
out a greater proportion of its wealth1 
for fine apparel1 than any other females

 on the whole surface of this           
terraqueous globe8  #aaf4 ,qu4 ,whether 
the expense1 great as it is1 be the     
greatest evil2 but whether this folly   
may not produce many other follies1 an  
entire derangement of domestic life1    
absurd manners1 neglect of duties1 bad  
mothers1 a general corruption in both   
sexes8  #aag4 ,qu4 ,whether therefore a 
tax on all gold and silver in apparel1  
on all foreign laces and silks1 may not 
raise a fund for the bank1 and at the   
same time have other salutary effects on
 the public8  #aah4 ,qu4 ,but1 if       
gentlemen had rather tax themselves in  
another way1 whether an additional tax  
of ten shillings the hogshead on wines  
may not supply a sufficient fund for the
 national bank1 all defects to be made  
good by ,parliament8  #aai4 ,qu4        
,whether upon the whole it may not be   
right to appoint a national bank8  #abj4
 ,qu4 ,whether the stock and security of
 such bank would not be1 in truth1 the  
national stock1 or the total sum of the 

wealth of this kingdom8  #aba4 ,qu4     
,whether1 nevertheless1 there should not
 be a particular fund for present use in
 answering bills and circulating credit8
  #abb4 ,qu4 ,whether for this end any  
fund may not suffice1 provided an ,act  
be passed for making good deficiencies8 
#abc4 ,qu4 ,whether the sole proprietor 
of such bank should not be the public1  
and the sole director the legislature8  
#abd4 ,qu4 ,whether the managers1       
officers1 and cashiers should not be    
servants of the pubic1 acting by orders 
and limited by rules of the legislature8
  #abe4 ,qu4 ,whether there should not  
be a standing number of inspectors1     
one-third men in great office1 the rest 
members of both houses1 half whereof to 
go out1 and half to come in every       
session8  #abf4 ,qu4 ,whether those     
inspectors should not1 all in a body1   
visit twice a year1 and three as often  
as they pleased8  #abg4 ,qu4 ,whether   
the general bank should not be in       
,dublin1 and subordinate banks or       

compters one in each province of        
,munster1 ,ulster1 and ,connaught8      
#abh4 ,qu4 ,whether there should not be 
such provisions of stamps1 signatures1  
checks1 strong boxes1 and all other     
measures for securing the bank notes and
 cash1 as are usual in other banks8     
#abi4 ,qu4 ,whether these ten or a dozen
 last queries may not easily be         
converted into heads of a bill8  #acj4  
,qu4 ,whether any one concerns himself  
about the security or funds of the banks
 of ,venice or ,amsterdam8 ,and whether 
in a little time the case would not be  
the same as to our bank8  #aca4 ,qu4    
,whether the first beginning of         
expedients do not always meet with      
prejudices8 ,and whether even the       
prejudices of a people ought not to be  
respected8  #acb4 ,qu4 ,whether a       
national bank be not the true           
philosopher's stone in a ,state8  #acc4 
,qu4 ,whether it be not the most obvious
 remedy for all the inconveniencies we  
labour under with regard to our coin8   

#acd4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not agreed on 
all hands that our coin is on very bad  
foot1 and calls for some present remedy8
  #ace4 ,qu4 ,whether the want of silver
 hath not introduced a sort of traffic  
for change1 which is purchased at no    
inconsiderable discount to the great    
obstruction of our domestic commerce8   
#acf4 ,qu4 ,whether1 though it be       
evident silver is wanted1 it be yet so  
evident which is the best way of        
providing for this want8 ,whether by    
lowering the gold1 or raising the       
silver1 or partly one1 partly the other8
  #acg4 ,qu4 ,whether a partial raising 
of one species be not1 in truth1 wanting
 a premium to our bankers for importing 
such species8 ,and what that species is 
which deserves most to be encouraged8   
#ach4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not just1 that
 all gold should be alike rated         
according to its weight and fineness8   
#aci4 ,qu4 ,whether this may be best    
done1 by lowering some certain species  
of gold1 or by raising others1 or by    

joining both methods together8  #adj4   
,qu4 ,whether all regulations of coin   
should not be made with a view to       
encourage industry1 and a circulation of
 commerce1 throughout the kingdom8      
#ada4 ,qu4 ,whether the ,north and the  
,south have not1 in truth1 one and the  
same interest in this matter8  #adb4    
,qu4 ,whether to oil the wheels of      
commerce be not a common benefit8 ,and  
whether this be not done by avoiding    
fractions and multiplying small silver8 
#adc4 ,qu4 ,but1 whether a pubic benefit
 ought to be obtained by unjust methods1
 and therefore1 whether any reduction of
 coin should be thought of which may    
hurt the properties of private men8     
#add4 ,qu4 ,whether those parts of the  
kingdom where commerce doth most abound 
would not be the greatest gainers by    
having our coin placed on a right foot8 
#ade4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in case a reduction
 of coin be thought expedient1 the      
uttering of bank bills at the same time 
may not prevent the inconveniencies of  

such a reduction8  #adf4 ,qu4 ,but1     
whether any pubic expediency could      
countervail a real pressure on those who
 are least able to bear it1 tenants and 
debtors8  #adg4 ,qu4 ,whether1          
nevertheless1 the political body1 as    
well as the natural1 must not sometimes 
be worse in order to be better8  #adh4  
,qu4 ,whether1 all things considered1 a 
general raising the value of gold and   
silver be not so far from bringing      
greater quantities thereof into the     
kingdom that it would produce a direct  
contrary effect1 inasmuch as less1 in   
that case1 would serve1 and therefore   
less be wanted8 ,and whether men do not 
import a commodity in proportion to the 
demand or want of it8  #adi4 ,qu4       
,whether the lowering of our gold would 
not create a fever in the ,state8 ,and  
whether a fever be not sometimes a cure1
 but whether it be not the last cure a  
man would choose8  #aej4 ,qu4 ,what if  
our other gold were raised to a par with
 ,portugal gold1 and the value of silver

 in general raised with regard to that  
of gold8  #aea4 ,qu4 ,whether the pubic 
ends may or may not be better answered  
by such augmentation1 than by a         
reduction of our coin8  #aeb4 ,qu4      
,provided silver is multiplied1 be it by
 raising or diminishing the value of our
 coin1 whether the great end is not     
answered8  #aec4 ,qu4 ,whether raising  
the value of a particular species will  
not tend to multiply such species1 and  
to lessen others in proportion          
thereunto8 ,and whether a much less     
quantity of cash in silver would not1 in
 reality1 enrich the nation more than a 
much greater in gold8  #aed4 ,qu4       
,whether1 if a reduction be thought     
necessary1 the obvious means to prevent 
all hardships and injustice be not a    
national bank8  #aee4 ,qu4 ,upon        
supposition that the cash of this       
kingdom was five hundred thousand       
pounds1 and by lowering the various     
species each one-fifth of its value the 
whole sum was reduced to four hundred   

thousand pounds1 whether the difficulty 
of getting money1 and consequently of   
paying rents1 would not be increased in 
the proportion of five to four8  #aef4  
,qu4 ,whether such difficulty would not 
be a great and unmerited distress on all
 the tenants in the nation8 ,but if at  
the same time with the aforesaid        
reduction there were uttered one hundred
 thousand pounds additional to the      
former current stock1 whether such      
difficulty or inconvenience would then  
be felt8  #aeg4 ,qu4 ,whether1 ceteris  
paribus1 it be not true that the prices 
of things increase as the quantity of   
money increaseth1 and are diminished as 
that is diminished8 ,and whether1 by the
 quantity of money is not to be         
understood the amount of the            
denominations1 all contracts being      
nominal for pounds1 shillings1 and      
pence1 and not for weights of gold or   
silver8  #aeh4 ,qu4 ,whether in any     
foreign market1 twopence advance in a   
kilderkin of corn could greatly affect  

our trade8  #aei4 ,qu4 ,whether in      
regard of the far greater changes and   
fluctuations of prices from the         
difference of seasons and other         
accidents1 that small rise should seem  
considerable8  #afj4 ,qu4 ,whether our  
exports do not consist of such          
necessaries as other countries cannot   
well be without8  #afa4 ,qu4 ,whether   
upon the circulation of a national bank 
more land would not be tilled1 more     
hands employed1 and consequently more   
commodities exported8  #afb4 ,qu4       
,whether1 setting aside the assistance  
of a national bank1 it will be easy to  
reduce or lower our coin without some   
hardship 7at least for the present7 on a
 great number of particular persons8    
#afc4 ,qu4 ,whether1 nevertheless1 the  
scheme of a national bank doth not      
entirely stand clear of this question2  
and whether such bank may not completely
 subsist and answer its ends1 although  
there should be no alteration at all    
made in the value of our coin8  #afd4   

,qu4 ,whether1 if the ill state of our  
coin be not redressed1 that scheme would
 not be still more necessary1 inasmuch  
as a national bank1 by putting new life 
and vigour into our commerce1 may       
prevent our feeling the ill effects of  
the want of such redress8  #afe4 ,qu4   
,whether men united by interest are not 
often divided by opinion2 and whether   
such difference in opinion be not an    
effect of misapprehension8  #aff4 ,qu4  
,whether two things are not manifest1   
first1 that some alteration in the value
 of our coin is highly expedient1       
secondly1 that whatever alteration is   
made1 the tenderest care should be had  
of the properties of the people1 and    
even a regard paid to their prejudices8 
#afg4 ,qu4 ,whether our taking the coin 
of another nation for more than it is   
worth be not1 in reality and in event1 a
 cheat upon ourselves8  #afh4 ,qu4      
,whether a particular coin over-rated   
will not be sure to flow in upon us from
 other countries beside that where it is

 coined8  #afi4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in case  
the wisdom of the nation shall think fit
 to alter our coin1 without erecting a  
national bank1 the rule for lessening or
 avoiding present inconvenience should  
not be so to order matters1 by raising  
the silver and depressing the gold1 as  
that the total sum of coined cash within
 the kingdom shall1 in denomination1    
remain the same1 or amount to the same  
nominal value1 after the change that it 
did before8  #agj4 ,qu4 ,whether all    
inconvenience ought not to be lessened  
as much as may be2 but after1 whether it
 would be prudent1 for the sake of a    
small inconvenience1 to obstruct a much 
greater good8 ,and whether it may not   
sometimes happen that an inconvenience  
which in fancy and general discourse    
seems great shall1 when accurately      
inspected and cast up1 appear           
inconsiderable8  #aga4 ,qu4 ,whether in 
public councils the sum of things1 here 
and there1 present and future1 ought not
 to be regarded8  #agb4 ,qu4 ,whether   

silver and small money be not that which
 circulates the quickest1 and passeth   
through all hands1 on the road1 in the  
market1 at the shop8  #agc4 ,qu4        
,whether1 all things considered1 it     
would not be better for a kingdom that  
its cash consisted of half a million in 
small silver1 than of five times that   
sum in gold8  #agd4 ,qu4 ,whether there 
be not every day five hundred lesser    
payments made for one that requires     
gold8  #age4 ,qu4 ,whether ,spain1 where
 gold bears the highest value1 be not   
the laziest1 and ,china1 where it bears 
the lowest1 be not the most industrious 
country in the known world8  #agf4 ,qu4 
,money being a ticket which entitles to 
power and records the title1 whether    
such power avails otherwise than as it  
is exerted into act8  #agg4 ,qu4        
,whether it be not evidently the        
interest of every ,state1 that its money
 should rather circulate than stagnate8 
#agh4 ,qu4 ,whether the principal use of
 cash be not its ready passing from hand

 to hand1 to answer common occasions of 
the common people1 and whether common   
occasions of all sorts of people are not
 small ones8  #agi4 ,qu4 ,whether       
business at fairs and markets is not    
often at a stand and often hindered1    
even though the seller hath his         
commodities at hand and the purchaser   
his gold1 yet for want of change8  #ahj4
 ,qu4 ,whether beside that value of     
money which is rated by weight1 there be
 not also another value consisting in   
its aptness to circulate8  #aha4 ,qu4   
,as wealth is really power1 and coin a  
ticket conveying power1 whether those   
tickets which are the fittest for that  
use ought not to be preferred8  #ahb4   
,qu4 ,whether those tickets which singly
 transfer small shares of power1 and1   
being multiplied1 large shares1 are not 
fitter for common use than those which  
singly transfer large shares8  #ahc4    
,qu4 ,whether the public is not more    
benefited by a shilling that circulates 
than a pound that lies dead8  #ahd4 ,qu4

 ,whether sixpence twice paid be not as 
good as a shilling once paid8  #ahe4    
,qu4 ,whether the same shilling         
circulating in a village may not supply 
one man with bread1 another with        
stockings1 a third with a knife1 a      
fourth with paper1 a fifth with nails1  
and so answer many wants which must     
otherwise have remained unsatisfied8    
#ahf4 ,qu4 ,whether facilitating and    
quickening the circulation of power to  
supply wants be not the promoting of    
wealth and industry among the lower     
people8 ,and whether upon this the      
wealth of the great doth not depend8    
#ahg4 ,qu4 ,whether1 without the proper 
means of circulation1 it be not vain to 
hope for thriving manufacturers and a   
busy people8  #ahh4 ,qu4 ,whether four  
pounds in small cash may not circulate  
and enliven an ,irish market1 which many
 four-pound pieces would permit to      
stagnate8  #ahi4 ,qu4 ,whether a man    
that could move nothing less than a     
hundred-pound weight would not be much  

at a loss to supply his wants2 and      
whether it would not be better for him  
to be less strong and more active8      
#aij4 ,qu4 ,whether the natural body can
 be in a state of health and vigour     
without a due circulation of the        
extremities1 even8 ,and whether the     
political body1 any in the fingers and  
toes more than the natural1 can thrive  
without a proportionable circulation    
through the minutest and most           
inconsiderable parts thereof8  #aia4    
,qu4 ,if we had a mint for coining only 
shillings1 sixpences1 and copper-money1 
whether the nation would not soon feel  
the good effects thereof8  #aib4 ,qu4   
,whether the greater waste by wearing of
 small coins would not be abundantly    
overbalanced by their usefulness8  #aic4
 ,qu4 ,whether it be not the industry of
 common people that feeds the ,state1   
and whether it be possible to keep this 
industry alive without small money8     
#aid4 ,qu4 ,whether the want of this be 
not a great bar to our employing the    

people in these manufactures which are  
open to us1 and do not interfere with   
,great ,britain8  #aie4 ,qu4 ,whether   
therefore such want doth not drive men  
into the lazy way of employing land     
under sheep-walk8  #aif4 ,qu4 ,whether  
the running of wool from ,ireland can so
 effectually be prevented as by         
encouraging other business and          
manufactures among our people8  #aig4   
,qu4 ,whatever commodities ,great       
,britain importeth which we might       
supply1 whether it be not her real      
interest to import them from us rather  
than from any other people8  #aih4 ,qu4 
,whether the apprehension of many among 
us 7who for that very reason stick to   
their wool71 that ,england may hereafter
 prohibit1 limit1 or discourage our     
linen trade1 when it hath been once1    
with great pains and expense1 thoroughly
 introduced and settled in this land1 be
 not altogether groundless and unjust8  
#aii4 ,qu4 ,whether it is possible for  
this country1 which hath neither mines  

of gold nor a free trade1 to support for
 any time the sending out of specie8    
#bjj4 ,qu4 ,whether in fact our payments
 are not made by bills8 ,and whether our
 foreign credit doth not depend on our  
domestic industry1 and our bills on that
 credit8  #bja4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in order 
to mend it1 we ought not first to know  
the peculiar wretchedness of our state8 
,and whether there be any knowing of    
this but by comparison8  #bjb4 ,qu4     
,whether there are not single market    
towns in ,england that turn more money  
in buying and selling than whole        
counties 7perhaps provinces7 with us8   
#bjc4 ,qu4 ,whether the small town of   
,birmingham alone doth not1 upon an     
average1 circulate every week1 one way  
or other1 to the value of fifty thousand
 pounds8 ,but whether the same crown may
 not be often paid8  #bjd4 ,qu4 ,whether
 there be any woollen manufacture in    
,birmingham8  #bje4 ,qu4 ,whether bad   
management may not be worse than        
slavery8 ,and whether any part of       

,christendom be in a more languishing   
condition than this kingdom8  #bjf4 ,qu4
 ,whether any kingdom in ,europe be so  
good a customer at ,bordeaux as         
,ireland8  #bjg4 ,qu4 ,whether the      
police and economy of ,france be not    
governed by wise councils8 ,and whether 
any one from this country1 who sees     
their towns1 and manufactures1 and      
commerce1 will not wonder what our      
senators have been doing8  #bjh4 ,qu4   
,what variety and number of excellent   
manufactures are to be met with         
throughout the whole kingdom of ,france8
  #bji4 ,qu4 ,whether there are not     
everywhere some or other mills for many 
uses1 forges and furnaces for iron-work1
 looms for tapestry1 glass-houses1 and  
so forth8  #baj4 ,qu4 ,what quantities  
of paper1 stockings1 hats2 what         
manufactures of wool1 silk1 linen1 hemp1
 leather1 wax1 earthenware1 brass1 lead1
 tin1 c8  #baa4 ,qu4 ,whether the       
manufactures and commerce of the single 
town of ,lyons do not amount to a       

greater value than all the manufactures 
and all the trade of this kingdom taken 
together8  #bab4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not
 true1 that within the compass of one   
year there flowed from the ,south ,sea1 
when that commerce was open1 into the   
single town of ,st4 ,malo's1 a sum in   
gold and silver equal to four times the 
whole specie of this kingdom8 ,and      
whether that same part of ,france doth  
not at present draw from ,cadiz1 upwards
 of two hundred thousand pounds per     
annum8  #bac4 ,qu4 ,whether1 in the     
anniversary fair at the small town of   
,beaucaire upon the ,rhone1 there be not
 as much money laid out as the current  
cash of this kingdom amounts to8  #bad4 
,qu4 ,whether it be true that the ,dutch
 make ten millions of livres1 every     
return of the flota and galleons1 by    
their sales at the ,indies and at       
,cadiz8  #bae4 ,qu4 ,whether it be true 
that ,england makes at least one hundred
 thousand pounds per annum by the single
 article of hats sold in ,spain8  #baf4 

,qu4 ,whether the very shreds shorn from
 woollen cloth1 which are thrown away in
 ,ireland1 do not make a beautiful      
tapestry in ,france8  #bag4 ,qu4        
,whether the toys of ,thiers do not     
employ five thousand families8  #bah4   
,qu4 ,whether there be not a small town 
,or two in ,france which supply all     
,spain with cards8  #bai4 ,qu4 ,whether 
there be not ,french towns subsisted    
merely by making pins8  #bbj4 ,qu4      
,whether the coarse fingers of those    
very women1 those same peasants who one 
part of the year till the ground and    
dress the vineyards1 are not another    
employed in making the finest ,french   
point8  #bba4 ,qu4 ,whether there is not
 a great number of idle fingers among   
the wives and daughters of our peasants8
  #bbb4 ,qu4 ,whether1 about twenty-five
 years ago1 they did not first attempt  
to make porcelain in ,france2 and       
whether1 in a few years1 they did not   
make it so well1 as to rival that which 
comes from ,china8  #bbc4 ,qu4 ,whether 

the ,french do not raise a trade from   
saffron1 dyeing drugs1 and the like     
products1 which may do with us as well  
as with them8  #bbd4 ,qu4 ,whether we   
may not have materials of our own growth
 to supply all manufactures1 as well as 
,france1 except silk1 and whether the   
bulk of what silk even ,france          
manufactures be not imported8  #bbe4    
,qu4 ,whether it be possible for this   
country to grow rich1 so long as what is
 made by domestic industry is spent in  
foreign luxury8  #bbf4 ,qu4 ,whether    
part of the profits of the bank should  
not be employed in erecting manufactures
 of several kinds1 which are not likely 
to be set on foot and carried on to     
perfection without great stock1 public  
encouragement1 general regulations1 and 
the concurrence of many hands8  #bbg4   
,qu4 ,whether our natural ,irish are not
 partly ,spaniards and partly ,tartars1 
and whether they do not bear signatures 
of their descent from both these        
nations1 which is also confirmed by all 

their histories8  #bbh4 ,qu4 ,whether   
the ,tartar progeny is not numerous in  
this land8 ,and whether there is an     
idler occupation under the sun than to  
attend flocks and herds of cattle8      
#bbi4 ,qu4 ,whether the wisdom of the   
,state should not wrestle with this     
hereditary disposition of our ,tartars1 
and with a high hand introduce          
agriculture8  #bcj4 ,qu4 ,whether it    
were not to be wished that our people   
shewed their descent from ,spain1 rather
 by their honour and honesty than their 
pride1 and if so1 whether they might not
 easily insinuate themselves into a     
larger share of the ,spanish trade8     
#bca4 ,qu4 ,whether once upon a time    
,france did not1 by her linen alone1    
draw yearly from ,spain about eight     
millions of livres8  #bcb4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the ,french have not suffered in their 
linen trade with ,spain1 by not making  
their cloth of due breadth2 and whether 
any other people have suffered1 and are 
still likely to suffer1 through the same

 prevarication8  #bcc4 ,qu4 ,whether the
 ,spaniards are not rich and lazy1 and  
whether they have not a particular      
inclination and favour for the          
inhabitants of this island8 ,but whether
 a punctual people do not love punctual 
dealers8  #bcd4 ,qu4 ,whether about     
fourteen years ago we had not come into 
a considerable share of the linen trade 
with ,spain1 and what put a stop to     
this8  #bce4 ,qu4 ,whether we may not1  
with common industry and common honesty1
 undersell any nation in ,europe8  #bcf4
 ,qu4 ,whether1 if the linen manufacture
 were carried on in the other provinces 
as well as in the ,north1 the merchants 
of ,cork1 ,limerick1 and ,galway would  
not soon find the way to ,spain8  #bcg4 
,qu4 ,whether the woollen manufacture of
 ,england is not divided into several   
parts or branches1 appropriated to      
particular places1 where they are only  
or principally manufactured2 fine cloths
 in ,somersetshire1 coarse in           
,yorkshire1 long ells at ,exeter1 saies 

at ,sudbury1 crapes at ,norwich1 linseys
 at ,kendal1 blankets at ,witney1 and so
 forth8  #bch4 ,qu4 ,whether the united 
skill1 industry1 and emulation of many  
together on the same work be not the way
 to advance it8 ,and whether it had been
 otherwise possible for ,england to have
 carried on her woollen manufacture to  
so great perfection8  #bci4 ,qu4        
,whether it would not on many accounts  
be right if we observed the same course 
with respect to our linen manufacture2  
and that diapers were made in one town  
or district1 damasks in another1        
sheeting in a third1 fine wearing linen 
in a fourth1 coarse in a fifth1 in      
another cambrics1 in another thread and 
stockings1 in others stamped linen1 or  
striped linen1 or tickings1 or dyed     
linen1 of which last kinds there is so  
great a consumption among the seafaring 
men of all nations8  #bdj4 ,qu4 ,whether
 it may not be worth while to inform    
ourselves of the different sorts of     
linen which are in request among        

different people8  #bda4 ,qu4 ,whether  
we do not yearly consume of ,french     
wines about a thousand tuns more than   
either ,sweden or ,denmark1 and yet     
whether those nations pay ready money as
 we do8  #bdb4 ,qu4 ,whether they are   
not the ,swiss that make hay and gather 
in the harvest throughout ,alsatia8     
#bdc4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not a custom  
for some thousands of ,frenchmen to go  
about the beginning of ,march into      
,spain1 and having tilled the lands and 
gathered the harvest of ,spain1 to      
return home with money in their pockets 
about the end of ,november8  #bdd4 ,qu4 
,whether of late years our ,irish       
labourers do not carry on the same      
business in ,england to the great       
discontent of many there8 ,but whether  
we have not much more reason than the   
people of ,england to be displeased at  
this commerce8  #bde4 ,qu4 ,whether1    
notwithstanding the cash supposed to be 
brought into it1 any nation is1 in      
truth1 a gainer by such traffic8  #bdf4 

,qu4 ,whether the industry of our people
 employed in foreign lands1 while our   
own are left uncultivated1 be not a     
great loss to the country8  #bdg4 ,qu4  
,whether it would not be much better for
 us1 if1 instead of sending our men     
abroad1 we could draw men from the      
neighbouring countries to cultivate our 
own8  #bdh4 ,qu4 ,whether1 nevertheless1
 we are not apt to think the money      
imported by our labourers to be so much 
clear gains to this country1 but whether
 a little reflexion and a little        
political arithmetic may not shew us our
 mistake8  #bdi4 ,qu4 ,whether our      
prejudices about gold and silver are not
 very apt to infect or misguide our     
judgments and reasonings about the      
public weal8  #bej4 ,qu4 ,whether it be 
not a good rule whereby to judge of the 
trade of any city1 and its usefulness1  
to observe whether there is a           
circulation through the extremities1 and
 whether the people round about are busy
 and warm8  #bea4 ,qu4 ,whether we had  

not1 some years since1 a manufacture of 
hats at ,athlone1 and of earthenware at 
,arklow1 and what became of those       
manufactures8  #beb4 ,qu4 ,why we do not
 make tiles of our own1 for flooring and
 roofing1 rather than bring them from   
,holland8  #bec4 ,qu4 ,what manufactures
 are there in ,france and ,venice of    
gilt-leather1 how cheap and how splendid
 a furniture8  #bed4 ,qu4 ,whether we   
may not1 for the same use1 manufacture  
divers things at home of more beauty and
 variety than wainscot1 which is        
imported at such expense from ,norway8  
#bee4 ,qu4 ,whether the use and the     
fashion will not soon make a            
manufacture8  #bef4 ,qu4 ,whether1 if   
our gentry used to drink mead and cider1
 we should not soon have those liquors  
in the utmost perfection and plenty8    
#beg4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not wonderful 
that with such pastures1 and so many    
black cattle1 we do not find ourselves  
in cheese8  #beh4 ,qu4 ,whether great   
profits may not be made by fisheries2   

but whether those of our ,irish who live
 by that business do not contrive to be 
drunk and unemployed one half of the    
year8  #bei4 ,qu4 ,whether it be not    
folly to think an inward commerce cannot
 enrich a ,state1 because it doth not   
increase its quantity of gold and       
silver8 ,and whether it is possible a   
country should8 not thrive1 while wants 
are supplied1 and business goes on8     
#bfj4 ,qu4 ,whether plenty of all the   
necessaries and comforts of life be not 
real wealth8  #bfa4 ,qu4 ,whether       
,lyons1 by the advantage of her midland 
situation and the rivers ,rhone and     
,saone1 be not a great magazine or mart 
for inward commerce8 ,and whether she   
doth not maintain a constant trade with 
most parts of ,france2 with ,provence   
for oils and dried fruits1 for wines and
 cloth with ,languedoc1 for stuffs with 
,champagne1 for linen with ,picardy1    
,normandy1 and ,brittany1 for corn with 
,burgundy8  #bfb4 ,qu4 ,whether she doth
 not receive and utter all those        

commodities1 and raise a profit from the
 distribution thereof1 as well as of her
 own manufactures1 throughout the       
kingdom of ,france8  #bfc4 ,qu4 ,whether
 the charge of making good roads and    
navigable rivers across the country     
would not be really repaid by an inward 
commerce8  #bfd4 ,qu4 ,whether1 as our  
trade and manufactures increased1       
magazines should not be established in  
proper places1 fitted by their          
situation1 near great roads and         
navigable rivers1 lakes1 or canals1 for 
the ready reception and distribution of 
all sorts of commodities from and to the
 several parts of the kingdom2 and      
whether the town of ,athlone1 for       
instance1 may not be fitly situated for 
such a magazine1 or centre of domestic  
commerce8  #bfe4 ,qu4 ,whether an inward
 trade would not cause industry to      
flourish1 and multiply the circulation  
of our coin1 and whether this may not do
 as well as multiplying the coin itself8
  #bff4 ,qu4 ,whether the benefits of a 

domestic commerce are sufficiently      
understood and attended to2 and whether 
the cause thereof be not the prejudiced 
and narrow way of thinking about gold   
and silver8  #bfg4 ,qu4 ,whether there  
be any other more easy and unenvied     
method of increasing the wealth of a    
people8  #bfh4 ,qu4 ,whether we of this 
island are not from our peculiar        
circumstances determined to this very   
commerce above any other1 from the      
number of necessaries and good things   
that we possess within ourselves1 from  
the extent and variety of our soil1 from
 the navigable rivers and good roads    
which we have or may have1 at a less    
expense than any people in ,europe1 from
 our great plenty of materials for      
manufactures1 and particularly from the 
restraints we lie under with regard to  
our foreign trade8  #bfi4 ,qu4 ,whether 
commissioners of trade or other proper  
persons should not be appointed to draw 
up plans of our commerce both foreign   
and domestic1 and lay them at the       

beginning of every session before the   
,parliament8  #bgj4 ,qu4 ,whether       
registers of industry should not be     
kept1 and the pubic from time to time   
acquainted what new manufactures are    
introduced1 what increase or decrease of
 old ones8  #bga4 ,qu4 ,whether annual  
inventories should not be published of  
the fairs throughout the kingdom1 in    
order to judge of the growth of its     
commerce8  #bgb4 ,qu4 ,whether there be 
not every year more cash circulated at  
the card tables of ,dublin than at all  
the fairs of ,ireland8  #bgc4 ,qu4      
,whether the wealth of a country will   
not bear proportion to the skill and    
industry of its inhabitants8  #bgd4 ,qu4
 ,whether foreign imports that tend to  
promote industry should not be          
encouraged1 and such as have a tendency 
to promote luxury should not be         
discouraged8  #bge4 ,qu4 ,whether the   
annual balance of trade between ,italy  
and ,lyons be not about four millions in
 favour of the former1 and yet1 whether 

,lyons be not a gainer by this trade8   
#bgf4 ,qu4 ,whether the general rule1 of
 determining the profit of a commerce by
 its balance1 doth not1 like other      
general rules1 admit of exceptions8     
#bgg4 ,qu4 ,whether it would not be a   
monstrous folly to import nothing but   
gold and silver1 supposing we might do  
it1 from every foreign part to which we 
trade8 ,and yet1 whether some men may   
not think this foolish circumstance a   
very happy one8  #bgh4 ,qu4 ,but whether
 we do not all see the ridicule of the  
,mogul's subjects1 who take from us     
nothing but our silver1 and bury it     
under ground1 in order to make sure     
thereof against the resurrection8  #bgi4
 ,qu4 ,whether he must not be a         
wrongheaded patriot or politician1 whose
 ultimate view was drawing money into a 
country1 and keeping it there8  #bhj4   
,qu4 ,whether it be not evident that not
 gold but industry causeth a country to 
flourish8  #bha4 ,qu4 ,whether it would 
not be a silly project in any nation to 

hope to grow rich by prohibiting the    
exportation of gold and silver8  #bhb4  
,qu4 ,whether there can be a greater    
mistake in politics than to measure the 
wealth of the nation by its gold and    
silver8  #bhc4 ,qu4 ,whether gold and   
silver be not a drug1 where they do not 
promote industry8 ,whether they be not  
even the bane and undoing of an idle    
people8  #bhd4 ,qu4 ,whether gold will  
not cause either industry or vice to    
flourish8 ,and whether a country1 where 
it flowed in without labour1 must not be
 wretched and dissolute like an island  
inhabited by buccaneers8  #bhe4 ,qu4    
,whether arts and vertue are not likely 
to thrive1 where money is made a means  
to industry8 ,but whether money without 
this would be a blessing to any people8 
#bhf4 ,qu4 ,whether therefore           
,mississippi1 ,south ,sea1 and such like
 schemes were not calculated for pubic  
ruin8  #bhg4 ,qu4 ,whether keeping cash 
at home1 or sending it abroad1 just as  
it most serves to promote industry1 be  

not the real interest of every nation8  
#bhh4 ,qu4 ,whether commodities of all  
kinds do not naturally flow where there 
is the greatest demand8 ,whether the    
greatest demand for a thing be not where
 it is of most use8 ,whether money1 like
 other things1 hath not its proper use8 
,whether this use be not to circulate8  
,whether therefore there must not of    
course be money where there is a        
circulation of industry8  #bhi4 ,qu4    
,whether all such princes and statesmen 
are not greatly deceived who imagine    
that gold and silver1 any way got1 will 
enrich a country8  #bij4 ,qu4 ,whether  
it is not a great point to know what we 
would be at8 ,and whether whole ,states1
 as well as private persons1 do not     
often fluctuate for want of this        
knowledge8  #bia4 ,qu4 ,whether gold may
 not be compared to ,sejanus's horse1 if
 we consider its passage through the    
world1 and the fate of those nations    
which have been successively possess'd  
thereof8  #bib4 ,qu4 ,whether the effect

 is not to be considered more than the  
kind or quantity of money8  #bic4 ,qu4  
,whether means are not so far useful as 
they answer the end8 ,and whether1 in   
different circumstances1 the same ends  
are not obtained by different means8    
#bid4 ,qu4 ,if we are a poor nation1    
abounding with very poor people1 will it
 not follow that a far greater          
proportion of our stock should be in the
 smallest and lowest species than would 
suit with ,england8  #bie4 ,qu4         
,whether1 therefore1 it would not be    
highly expedient if our money were      
coined of peculiar values1 best fitted  
to the circumstances and uses of our own
 country2 and whether any other people  
could take umbrage at our consulting our
 own convenience1 in an affair entirely 
domestic1 and that lies within          
ourselves8  #bif4 ,qu4 ,whether every   
man doth not know1 and hath not long    
known1 that the want of a mint causeth  
many other wants in this kingdom8  #big4
 ,qu4 ,what harm did ,england sustain   

about three centuries ago1 when silver  
was coined in this kingdom8  #bih4 ,qu4 
,what harm was it to ,spain that her    
provinces of ,naples and ,sicily had all
 along mints of their own8  #bii4 ,qu4  
,whether those who have the interests of
 this kingdom at heart1 and are         
concerned in the councils thereof1 ought
 not to make the most humble and earnest
 representations to his ,majesty1 that  
he may vouchsafe to grant us that       
favour1 the want of which is ruinous to 
our domestic industry1 and the having of
 which would interfere with no interest 
of our fellow-subjects8  #cjj4 ,qu4     
,whether it may not be presumed that our
 not having a privilege which every     
other kingdom in the world enjoys1 be   
not owing to our want of diligence and  
unanimity in soliciting for it8  #cja4  
,qu4 ,whether his most gracious ,majesty
 hath ever been addressed on this head  
in a proper manner1 and had the case    
fairly stated for his royal             
consideration1 and if not1 whether we   

may not blame ourselves8  #cjb4 ,qu4 ,if
 his ,majesty would be pleased to grant 
us a mint1 whether the consequences     
thereof may not prove a valuable        
consideration to the crown8  #cjc4 ,qu4 
,whether it be not the interest of      
,england that we should cultivate a     
domestic commerce among ourselves8 ,and 
whether it could give them any possible 
jealousy1 if our small sum of cash was  
contrived to go a little further1 if    
there was a little more life in our     
markets1 a little more buying and       
selling in our shops1 a little better   
provision for the backs and bellies of  
so many forlorn wretches throughout the 
towns and villages of this island8      
#cjd4 ,qu4 ,whether ,great ,britain     
ought not to promote the prosperity of  
her ,colonies1 by all methods consistent
 with her own8 ,and whether the         
,colonies themselves ought to wish or   
aim at it by others8  #cje4 ,qu4        
,whether the remotest parts from the    
metropolis1 and the lowest of the       

people1 are not to be regarded as the   
extremities and capillaries of the      
political body8  #cjf4 ,qu4 ,whether1   
although the capillary vessels are      
small1 yet obstructions in them do not  
produce great chronical diseases8  #cjg4
 ,qu4 ,whether faculties are not        
enlarged and improved by exercise8      
#cjh4 ,qu4 ,whether the sum of the      
faculties put into act1 or1 in other    
words1 the united action of a whole     
people1 doth not constitute the momentum
 of a ,state8  #cji4 ,qu4 ,whether such 
momentum be not the real stock or wealth
 of a ,state2 and whether its credit be 
not proportional thereunto8  #caj4 ,qu4 
,whether in every wise ,state the       
faculties of the mind are not most      
considered8  #caa4 ,qu4 ,whether every  
kind of employment or business1 as it   
implies more skill and exercise of the  
higher powers1 be not more valued8      
#cab4 ,qu4 ,whether the momentum of a   
,state doth not imply the whole exertion
 of its faculties1 intellectual and     

corporeal2 and whether the latter       
without the former could act in concert8
  #cac4 ,qu4 ,whether the divided force 
of men1 acting singly1 would not be a   
rope of sand8  #cad4 ,qu4 ,whether the  
particular motions of the members of a  
,state1 in opposite directions1 will not
 destroy each other1 and lessen the     
momentum of the whole2 but whether they 
must not conspire to produce a great    
effect8  #cae4 ,qu4 ,whether the ready  
means to put spirit into this ,state1 to
 fortify and increase its momentum1     
would not be a national bank1 and plenty
 of small cash8  #caf4 ,qu4 ,whether    
private endeavours without assistance   
from the public are likely to advance   
our manufactures and commerce to any    
great degree8 ,but whether1 as bills    
uttered from a national bank upon       
private mortgages would facilitate the  
purchases and projects of private men1  
even so the same bills uttered on the   
public security alone may not answer    
pubic ends in promoting new works and   

manufactures throughout the kingdom8    
#cag4 ,qu4 ,whether that which employs  
and exerts the force of a community     
deserves not to be well considered and  
well understood8  #cah4 ,qu4 ,whether   
the immediate mover1 the blood and      
spirits1 be not money1 paper1 or metal2 
and whether the soul or will of the     
community1 which is the prime mover that
 governs and directs the whole1 be not  
the legislature8  #cai4 ,qu4 ,supposing 
the inhabitants of a country quite sunk 
in sloth1 or even fast asleep1 whether1 
upon the gradual awakening and exertion1
 first of the sensitive and locomotive  
faculties1 next of reason and reflexion1
 then of justice and piety1 the momentum
 of such country or ,state would not1 in
 proportion thereunto1 become still more
 and more considerable8  #cbj4 ,qu4     
,whether that which in the growth is    
last attained1 and is the finishing     
perfection of a people1 be not the first
 thing lost in their declension8  #cba4 
,qu4 ,whether force be not of           

consequence1 as it is exerted2 and      
whether great force without great wisdom
 may not be a nuisance8  #cbb4 ,qu4     
,whether the force of a child1 applied  
with art1 may not produce greater       
effects than that of a giant8 ,and      
whether a small stock in the hands of a 
wise ,state may not go further1 and     
produce more considerable effects1 than 
immense sums in the hands of a foolish  
one8  #cbc4 ,qu4 ,whether as many as    
wish well to their country ought not to 
aim at increasing its momentum8  #cbd4  
,qu4 ,whose fault is it if poor ,ireland
 still continues poor8   ,,finis        
,,errata4   ,page #d4 ,line #ac for     
,silklace1 read ,silk1 ,lace1 p4 #cj l4 
#g r4 #fa ,prices4 p4 #cb l4 #ba r4 to  
be4 p4 #ci1 l4 #h r4 as ,mills4