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?
192. Qu. Whether the natural inducements to sloth are not greater in the Mogul's country than in Ireland, and yet whether, in that suffocating and dispiriting climate, the Banyans are not all, men, women, and children, constantly employed?
193. Qu. Whether it be not true that the great Mogul's subjects might undersell us even in our own markets, and clothe our people with their stuffs and calicoes, if they were imported duty free?
194. Qu. Whether there can be a greater reproach on the leading men and the patriots of a country, than that the people should want employment? And whether methods may not be found to employ even the lame and the blind, the dumb, the deaf, and the maimed, in some or other branch of our manufactures?
195. Qu. Whether much may not be expected from a biennial consultation of so many wise men about the public good?
196. Qu. Whether a tax upon dirt would not be one way of encouraging industry?
197. Qu. Whether it may not be right to appoint censors in every parish to observe and make returns of the idle hands?
198. Qu. Whether a register or history of the idleness and industry of a people would be an useless thing?