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?