170. Qu. Whether, therefore, a legislator should be content with a vulgar share of knowledge? Whether he should not be a person of reflexion and thought, who hath made it his study to understand the true nature and interest of mankind, how to guide men's humours and passions, how to incite their active powers, how to make their several talents co-operate to the mutual benefit of each other, and the general good of the whole? 171. Qu. Whether it doth not follow that above all things a gentleman's care should be to keep his own faculties sound and entire? 172. Qu. Whether the natural phlegm of this island needs any additional stupefier? 173. Qu. Whether all spirituous liquors are not in truth opiates? 174. Qu. Whether our men of business are not generally very grave by fifty? 175. Qu. Whether there be really among us any parents so silly, as to encourage drinking in their children? 176. Qu. Whence it is, that our ladies are more alive, and bear age so much better than our gentlemen? 177. Qu. Whether all men have not faculties of mind or body which may be employed for the public benefit? 178. Qu. Whether the main point be not to multiply and employ our people? 179. Qu. Whether hearty food and warm clothing would not enable and encourage the lower sort to labour? 180. Qu. Whether, in such a soil as ours, if there was industry, there could be want? 181. Qu. Whether the way to make men industrious be not to let them taste the fruits of their industry? And whether the labouring ox should be muzzled? 182. Qu. Whether our landlords are to be told that industry and numbers would raise the value of their lands, or that one acre about the Tholsel is worth ten thousand acres in Connaught? 183. Qu. Whether our old native Irish are not the most indolent and supine people in Christendom? 184. Qu. Whether they are yet civilized, and whether their habitations and furniture are not more sordid than those of the savage Americans? 185. Qu. Whether this be altogether their own fault? 186. Qu. Whether it be not a sad circumstance to live among lazy beggars? And whether, on the other hand, it would not be delightful to live in a country swarming, like China, with busy people? 187. Qu. Whether we should not cast about, by all manner of means, to excite industry, and to remove whatever hinders it? And whether every one should not lend a helping hand? 188. Qu. Whether vanity itself should not be engaged in this good work? And whether it is not to be wished that the finding of employment for themselves and others were a fashionable distinction among the ladies? 189. Qu. Whether idleness be the mother or the daughter of spleen? 190. Qu. Whether it may not be worth while to publish the conversation of Ischomachus and his wife in Xenophon, for the use of our ladies? 191. Qu. Whether it is true that there have been, upon a time, one hundred millions of people employed in China, without the woollen trade, or any foreign commerce?