Querist eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 96 pages of information about Querist.

Querist eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 96 pages of information about Querist.

179.  Qu.  Whether business at fairs and markets is not often at a stand and often hindered, even though the seller hath his commodities at hand and the purchaser his gold, yet for want of change?

180.  Qu.  Whether beside that value of money which is rated by weight, there be not also another value consisting in its aptness to circulate?

181.  Qu.  As wealth is really power, and coin a ticket conveying power, whether those tickets which are the fittest for that use ought not to be preferred?

182.  Qu.  Whether those tickets which singly transfer small shares of power, and, being multiplied, large shares, are not fitter for common use than those which singly transfer large shares?

183.  Qu.  Whether the public is not more benefited by a shilling that circulates than a pound that lies dead?

184.  Qu.  Whether sixpence twice paid be not as good as a shilling once paid?

185.  Qu.  Whether the same shilling circulating in a village may not supply one man with bread, another with stockings, a third with a knife, a fourth with paper, a fifth with nails, and so answer many wants which must otherwise have remained unsatisfied?

186.  Qu.  Whether facilitating and quickening the circulation of power to supply wants be not the promoting of wealth and industry among the lower people?  And whether upon this the wealth of the great doth not depend?

187.  Qu.  Whether, without the proper means of circulation, it be not vain to hope for thriving manufacturers and a busy people?

188.  Qu.  Whether four pounds in small cash may not circulate and enliven an Irish market, which many four-pound pieces would permit to stagnate?

189.  Qu.  Whether a man that could move nothing less than a hundred-pound weight would not be much at a loss to supply his wants; and whether it would not be better for him to be less strong and more active?

190.  Qu.  Whether the natural body can be in a state of health and vigour without a due circulation of the extremities, even?  And whether the political body, any in the fingers and toes more than the natural, can thrive without a proportionable circulation through the minutest and most inconsiderable parts thereof?

191.  Qu.  If we had a mint for coining only shillings, sixpences, and copper-money, whether the nation would not soon feel the good effects thereof?

192.  Qu.  Whether the greater waste by wearing of small coins would not be abundantly overbalanced by their usefulness?

193.  Qu.  Whether it be not the industry of common people that feeds the State, and whether it be possible to keep this industry alive without small money?

194.  Qu.  Whether the want of this be not a great bar to our employing the people in these manufactures which are open to us, and do not interfere with Great Britain?

195.  Qu.  Whether therefore such want doth not drive men into the lazy way of employing land under sheep-walk?

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