307.  Qu.  Whether faculties are not enlarged and improved by exercise?

308.  Qu.  Whether the sum of the faculties put into act, or, in other words, the united action of a whole people, doth not constitute the momentum of a State?

309.  Qu.  Whether such momentum be not the real stock or wealth of a State; and whether its credit be not proportional thereunto?

310.  Qu.  Whether in every wise State the faculties of the mind are not most considered?

311.  Qu.  Whether every kind of employment or business, as it implies more skill and exercise of the higher powers, be not more valued?

312.  Qu.  Whether the momentum of a State doth not imply the whole exertion of its faculties, intellectual and corporeal; and whether the latter without the former could act in concert?

313.  Qu.  Whether the divided force of men, acting singly, would not be a rope of sand?

314.  Qu.  Whether the particular motions of the members of a State, in opposite directions, will not destroy each other, and lessen the momentum of the whole; but whether they must not conspire to produce a great effect?

315.  Qu.  Whether the ready means to put spirit into this State, to fortify and increase its momentum, would not be a national bank, and plenty of small cash?

316.  Qu.  Whether private endeavours without assistance from the public are likely to advance our manufactures and commerce to any great degree?  But whether, as bills uttered from a national bank upon private mortgages would facilitate the purchases and projects of private men, even so the same bills uttered on the public security alone may not answer pubic ends in promoting new works and manufactures throughout the kingdom?

317.  Qu.  Whether that which employs and exerts the force of a community deserves not to be well considered and well understood?

318.  Qu.  Whether the immediate mover, the blood and spirits, be not money, paper, or metal; and whether the soul or will of the community, which is the prime mover that governs and directs the whole, be not the legislature?

319.  Qu.  Supposing the inhabitants of a country quite sunk in sloth, or even fast asleep, whether, upon the gradual awakening and exertion, first of the sensitive and locomotive faculties, next of reason and reflexion, then of justice and piety, the momentum of such country or State would not, in proportion thereunto, become still more and more considerable?

320.  Qu.  Whether that which in the growth is last attained, and is the finishing perfection of a people, be not the first thing lost in their declension?

321.  Qu.  Whether force be not of consequence, as it is exerted; and whether great force without great wisdom may not be a nuisance?

322.  Qu.  Whether the force of a child, applied with art, may not produce greater effects than that of a giant?  And whether a small stock in the hands of a wise State may not go further, and produce more considerable effects, than immense sums in the hands of a foolish one?