98.  Qu.  Whether we may not obtain that as friends which it is in vain to hope for as rivals?

99.  Qu.  Whether in every instance by which we prejudice England, we do not in a greater degree prejudice ourselves?  See Part II. qu. 153 and 154.

100.  Qu.  Whether in the rude original of society the first step was not the exchanging of commodities; the next a substituting of metals by weight as the common medium of circulation; after this the making use of coin; lastly, a further refinement by the use of paper with proper marks and signatures?  And whether this, as it is the last, so it be not the greatest improvement?

101.  Qu.  Whether we are not in fact the only people who may be said to starve in the midst of plenty?

102.  Qu.  Whether business in general doth not languish among us?  Whether our land is not untilled?  Whether its inhabitants are not upon the wing?

103.  Qu.  Whether there can be a worse sign than that people should quit their country for a livelihood?  Though men often leave their country for health, or pleasure, or riches, yet to leave it merely for a livelihood, whether this be not exceeding bad, and sheweth some peculiar mismanagement?

104.  Qu.  Whether our circumstances do not call aloud for some present remedy?  And whether that remedy be not in our power?

105.  Qu.  Whether, in order to redress our evils, artificial helps are not most wanted in a land where industry is most against the natural grain of the people?

106.  Qu.  Whether, of all the helps to industry that ever were invented, there be any more secure, more easy, and more effectual than a national bank?

107.  Qu.  Whether medicines do not recommend themselves by experience, even though their reasons be obscure?  But whether reason and fact are not equally clear in favour of this political medicine?

108.  Qu.  Whether, although the prepossessions about gold and silver have taken deep root, 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 imagine?

109.  Qu.  Whether it be not evident that we may maintain a much greater inward and outward commerce, and be five times richer than we are, nay, and our bills abroad be of far greater credit, though we had not one ounce of gold or silver in the whole island?

110.  Qu.  Whether wrongheaded maxims, customs, and fashions are not sufficient to destroy any people which hath so few resources as the inhabitants of Ireland.

111.  Qu.  Whether it would not be a horrible thing to see our matrons make dress and play their chief concern?

112.  Qu.  Whether our ladies might not as well endow monasteries as wear Flanders lace?  And whether it be not true that Popish nuns are maintained by Protestant contributions?

113.  Qu.  Whether England, which hath a free trade, whatever she remits for foreign luxury with one hand, doth not with the other receive much more from abroad?  Whether, nevertheless, this nation would not be a gainer, if our women would content themselves with the same moderation in point of expense as the English ladies?