305. Qu. Whether a Sum, which would go but
a little way towards erecting hospitals for maintaining
and educating the children of the native Irish, might
not go far in binding them out apprentices to Protestant
masters, for husbandry, useful trades, and the service
of families?
306. Qu. Whether if the parents are overlooked,
there can be any great hopes of success in converting
the children?
307. Qu. Whether there be any instance,
of a people’s being converted in a Christian
sense, otherwise than by preaching to them and instructing
them in their own language?
308. Qu. Whether catechists in the Irish
tongue may not easily be procured and subsisted?
And whether this would not be the most practicable
means for converting the natives?
309. Qu. Whether it be not of great advantage
to the Church of Rome, that she hath clergy suited
to all ranks of men, in gradual subordination from
cardinals down to mendicants?
310. Qu. Whether her numerous poor clergy
are not very useful in missions, and of much influence
with the people?
311. Qu. Whether, in defect of able missionaries,
persons conversant in low life, and speaking the Irish
tongue, if well instructed in the first principles
of religion, and in the popish controversy, though
for the rest on a level with the parish clerks, or
the school-masters of charity-schools, may not be
fit to mix with and bring over our poor illiterate
natives to the Established Church? Whether it
is not to be wished that some parts of our liturgy
and homilies were publicly read in the Irish language?
And whether, in these views, it may not be right to
breed up some of the better sort of children in the
charity-schools, and qualify them for missionaries,
catechists, and readers?
312. Qu. Whether there be any nation of
men governed by reason? And yet, if there was
not, whether this would be a good argument against
the use of reason in pubic affairs?
313. Qu. Whether, as others have supposed
an Atlantis or Utopia, we also may not suppose an
Hyperborean island inhabited by reasonable creatures?
314. Qu. Whether an indifferent person,
who looks into all hands, may not be a better judge
of the game than a party who sees only his own?
315. Qu. Whether one, whose end is to make
his countrymen think, may not gain his end, even though
they should not think as he doth?
316. Qu. Whether he, who only asks, asserts?
and whether any man can fairly confute the querist?
317. Qu. Whether the interest of a part
will not always be preferred to that of the whole?
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