2d. “Whether therefore, there is not a probability that those people might in time, by proper management in the _Europeans_, become as wise, as industrious, as humane, and as good Christians, as the people of any other country? 3d. “Whether their rational faculties are not in general equal to those of any other of the human species; and whether they are not, from experience, as capable for mechanical and manufactural arts and trades, as even the Bulk of the _Europeans_? 4th. “Whether it would not be more to the interest of all the _European_ Nations concerned in the Trade to _Africa_, rather to endeavour to cultivate a friendly and humane Commerce with these people, into the very centure of their extended country, than to content themselves only with skimming a trifling portion of Trade upon the Coast of _Africa_? 5th. “Whether the greatest hinderance and obstruction to the _European_’s cultivating a Christian-like and humane Commerce with those populous countries has not wholly proceeded from that unjust Traffick called the Slave Trade, which is carried on by the _Europeans_ _Americans_, _&c._ 6th. “Whether this Trade and this only was not the primary cause, and still continues to be the chief cause of these eternal and incessant broils, quarrels, and animosities which subsist between the Negro Princes and Chiefs; and consequently of those endless wars which abide among them, and which they are induced to carry on in order to make prisoners of one another for the sake of the Slave Trade? 7th. “Whether, if trade was carried on with them for a series of years, as it has been with most other savage countries, and the _Europeans_ gave no incouragement whatever to the Slave Trade, those cruel wars among the Blacks would not cease, and a fair and honourable Commerce in time take place throughout the whole country? 8th. “Whether the example of the _Dutch_ in the _East-Indies_, who have civilized innumerable of the natives, and brought them to the _European_ way of cloathing, _&c._ does not give reasonable hopes that these suggestions are not visionary, but founded on experience as well as on humane and Christian principles? 9th. “Whether Commerce in general has not proved the great means of civilizing all nations, even the most savage and brutal; and why not the _Africans_? 10th. “Whether the territory of the _European_ nations who are interested in the Colonies and Plantations in _America_, are not populous enough, or may be rendered so, by proper encouragement given to matrimony and the breed of foundling infants, to supply their respective Colonies with labourers in the place of Negro Slaves? And Lastly. “Whether the _British_ dominions in general have not an extent of territory sufficient to increase and multiply their inhabitants; and whether it is not their own faults that they do not increase them sufficiently to supply their Colonies and Plantations, with Whites instead of Blacks?”