343 Whether there be anything perfect under the sun? And whether it be not with the world as with a particular State, and with a State or body politic as with the human body, which lives and moves under various indispositions, perfect health being seldom or never to be found?
344 Whether, nevertheless, men should not in all things aim at perfection? And, therefore, whether any wise and good man would be against applying remedies? But whether it is not natural to wish for a benevolent physician?
345 Whether the public happiness be not proposed by the legislature, and whether such happiness doth not contain that of the individuals?
346 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?
347 Whether it doth not follow that above all things a gentleman's care should be to keep his own faculties sound and entire?
348 Whether the natural phlegm of this island needs any additional stupefier?
349 Whether all spirituous liquors are not in truth opiates?
350 Whether our men of business are not generally very grave by fifty?
351 Whether all men have not faculties of mind or body which may be employed for the public benefit?
352 Whether the main point be not to multiply and employ our people?
353 Whether hearty food and warm clothing would not enable and encourage the lower sort to labour?
354 Whether, in such a soil as ours, if there was industry, there could be want?
355 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?
356 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?
357 Whether our old native Irish are not the most indolent and supine people in Christendom?
358 Whether they are yet civilized, and whether their habitations and furniture are not more sordid than those of the savage Americans?
359 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?
360 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?
361 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?
362 Whether idleness be the mother or the daughter of spleen?
363 Whether it may not be worth while to publish the conversation of Ischomachus and his wife in Xenophon, for the use of our ladies?
364 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?
365 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?
366 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?
367 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?
368 Whether much may not be expected from a biennial consultation of so many wise men about the public good?
369 Whether a tax upon dirt would not be one way of encouraging industry?
370 Whether it would be a great hardship if every parish were obliged to find work for their poor?
371 Whether children especially should not be inured to labour betimes?
372 Whether there should not be erected, in each province, an hospital for orphans and foundlings, at the expense of old bachelors?
373 Whether it be true that in the Dutch workhouses things are so managed that a child four years old may earn its own livelihood?
374 What a folly is it to build fine houses, or establish lucrative posts and large incomes, under the notion of providing for the poor?
375 Whether the poor, grown up and in health, need any other provision but their own industry, under public inspection?
376 Whether the poor-tax in England hath lessened or increased the number of the poor?
377 Whether workhouses should not be made at the least expense, with clay floors, and walls of rough stone, without plastering, ceiling, or glazing?
378 Whether it be an impossible attempt to set our people at work, or whether industry be a habit which, like other habits, may by time and skill be introduced among any people?
379 Whether all manner of means should not be employed to possess the nation in general with an aversion and contempt for idleness and all idle folk?
380 Whether it would be a hardship on people destitute of all things, if the public furnished them with necessaries which they should be obliged to earn by their labour?
381 Whether other nations have not found great benefit from the use of slaves in repairing high roads, making rivers navigable, draining bogs, erecting public buildings, bridges, and manufactures?
382 Whether temporary servitude would not be the best cure for idleness and beggary?
383 Whether the public hath not a right to employ those who cannot or who will not find employment for themselves?