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Part 1: Query 133

Whether, upon the whole, a domestic trade may not suffice in such a country as Ireland, to nourish and clothe its inhabitants, and provide them with the reasonable conveniences and even comforts of life?

Part 1: Query 132

Whether they may not eat, drink, play, dress, visit, sleep in good beds, sit by good fires, build, plant, raise a name, make estates, and spend them?

Part 1: Query 65

Whether there be any instance of a State wherein the people, living neatly and plentifully, did not aspire to wealth?

Part 1: Query 29

Whether, nevertheless, the damage would be very considerable, if by degrees our money were brought back to the English value there to rest for ever?

Part 1: Query 27

Whether an equal raising of all sorts of gold, silver, and copper coin can have any effect in bringing money into the kingdom? And whether altering the proportions between the kingdom several sorts can have any other effect but multiplying one kind and lessening another, without any increase of the sum total?

Part 1: Query 26

Whether the denominations being retained, although the bullion were gone, things might not nevertheless be rated, bought, and sold, industry promoted, and a circulation of commerce maintained?

Part 1: Query 25

Whether the terms crown, livre, pound sterling, etc., are not to be considered as exponents or denominations of such proportion? And whether gold, silver, and paper are not tickets or counters for reckoning, recording, and transferring thereof?

Part 1: Query 24

Whether the value or price of things be not a compounded proportion, directly as the demand, and reciprocally as the plenty?

Part 1: Query 23

Whether money is to be considered as having an intrinsic value, or as being a commodity, a standard, a measure, or a pledge, as is variously suggested by writers? And whether the true idea of money, as such, be not altogether that of a ticket or counter?

Part 1: Query 22

Whether, therefore, less money swiftly circulating, be not, in effect, equivalent to more money slowly circulating? Or, whether, if the circulation be reciprocally as the quantity of coin, the nation can be a loser?

Part 1: Query 19

Whether the bulk of our Irish natives are not kept from thriving, by that cynical content in dirt and beggary which they possess to a degree beyond any other people in Christendom?

21st Century: Query 3

Should financial institutions be government regulated and allowed to fail?

21st Century: Query 2

Should people of means--the middle and the wealthy classes--give aid to the poor who refuse to work?

Part 1: Query 8

Whether the public aim in every well-govern'd State be not that each member, according to his just pretensions and industry, should have power?

Part 1: Query 7

Whether the real end and aim of men be not power? And whether he who could have everything else at his wish or will would value money?

Part 1: Query 6

Whether any other means, equally conducing to excite and circulate the industry of mankind, may not be as useful as money.

Part 1: Query 5

Whether money be not only so far useful, as it stirreth up industry, enabling men mutually to participate the fruits of each other's labour?

Part 1: Query 4

Whether the four elements, and man's labour therein, be not the true source of wealth?

Part 1: Query 2

Whether a people can be called poor, where the common sort are well fed, clothed, and lodged?

Part 1: Query 1

Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?

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