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?