175.  Qu.  Whether there be really among us any parents so silly, as to encourage drinking in their children?

176.  Qu.  Whence it is, that our ladies are more alive, and bear age so much better than our gentlemen?

177.  Qu.  Whether all men have not faculties of mind or body which may be employed for the public benefit?

178.  Qu.  Whether the main point be not to multiply and employ our people?

179.  Qu.  Whether hearty food and warm clothing would not enable and encourage the lower sort to labour?

180.  Qu.  Whether, in such a soil as ours, if there was industry, there could be want?

181.  Qu.  Whether the way to make men industrious be not to let them taste the fruits of their industry?  And whether the labouring ox should be muzzled?

182.  Qu.  Whether our landlords are to be told that industry and numbers would raise the value of their lands, or that one acre about the Tholsel is worth ten thousand acres in Connaught?

183.  Qu.  Whether our old native Irish are not the most indolent and supine people in Christendom?

184.  Qu.  Whether they are yet civilized, and whether their habitations and furniture are not more sordid than those of the savage Americans?

185.  Qu.  Whether this be altogether their own fault?

186.  Qu.  Whether it be not a sad circumstance to live among lazy beggars?  And whether, on the other hand, it would not be delightful to live in a country swarming, like China, with busy people?

187.  Qu.  Whether we should not cast about, by all manner of means, to excite industry, and to remove whatever hinders it?  And whether every one should not lend a helping hand?

188.  Qu.  Whether vanity itself should not be engaged in this good work?  And whether it is not to be wished that the finding of employment for themselves and others were a fashionable distinction among the ladies?

189.  Qu.  Whether idleness be the mother or the daughter of spleen?

190.  Qu.  Whether it may not be worth while to publish the conversation of Ischomachus and his wife in Xenophon, for the use of our ladies?

191.  Qu.  Whether it is true that there have been, upon a time, one hundred millions of people employed in China, without the woollen trade, or any foreign commerce?

192.  Qu.  Whether the natural inducements to sloth are not greater in the Mogul’s country than in Ireland, and yet whether, in that suffocating and dispiriting climate, the Banyans are not all, men, women, and children, constantly employed?

193.  Qu.  Whether it be not true that the great Mogul’s subjects might undersell us even in our own markets, and clothe our people with their stuffs and calicoes, if they were imported duty free?

194.  Qu.  Whether there can be a greater reproach on the leading men and the patriots of a country, than that the people should want employment?  And whether methods may not be found to employ even the lame and the blind, the dumb, the deaf, and the maimed, in some or other branch of our manufactures?