153. Qu. Whether other nations who enjoy any share of freedom, and have great objects in view, be not unavoidably embarrassed and distracted by factions? But whether we do not divide upon trifles, and whether our parties are not a burlesque upon politics? 154. Qu. Whether it be not an advantage that we are not embroiled in foreign affairs, that we hold not the balance of Europe, that we are protected by other fleets and armies, that it is the true interest of a powerful people, from whom we are descended, to guard us on all sides? 155. Qu. Whether England doth not really love us and wish well to us, as bone of her bone, and flesh of her flesh? And whether it be not our part to cultivate this love and affection all manner of ways? 156. Qu. Whether, if we do not reap the benefits that may be made of our country and government, want of will in the lower people, or want of wit in the upper, be most in fault? 157. Qu. What sea-ports or foreign trade have the Swisses; and yet how warm are those people, and how well provided? 158. Qu. Whether there may not be found a people who so contrive as to be impoverished by their trade? And whether we are not that people? 159. Qu. Whether it would not be better for this island, if all our fine folk of both sexes were shipped off, to remain in foreign countries, rather than that they should spend their estates at home in foreign luxury, and spread the contagion thereof through their native land? 160. Qu. Whether our gentry understand or have a notion of magnificence, and whether for want thereof they do not affect very wretched distinctions? 161. Qu. Whether there be not an art or skill in governing human pride, so as to render it subservient to the pubic aim? 162. Qu. Whether the great and general aim of the public should not be to employ the people? 163. Qu. What right an eldest son hath to the worst education? 164. Qu. Whether men's counsels are not the result of their knowledge and their principles? 165. Qu. Whether an assembly of freethinkers, petit maitres, and smart Fellows would not make an admirable Senate? 166. Qu. Whether there be not labour of the brains as well as of the hands, and whether the former is beneath a gentleman? 167. Qu. Whether the public be more interested to protect the property acquired by mere birth than that which is the Mediate fruit of learning and vertue? 168. Qu. Whether it would not be a poor and ill-judged project to attempt to promote the good of the community, by invading the rights of one part thereof, or of one particular order of men? 169. Qu. Whether the public happiness be not proposed by the legislature, and whether such happiness doth not contain that of the individuals?