, &c?
103. Qu. Whether, after all other shifts, the last and grand
resource for exhausting that ocean, was not the erecting of a compte
en banc in several towns of France?
104. Qu. Whether, when the imagination of a people is thoroughly
wrought upon and heated by their own example, and the arts of
designing men, this doth not produce a sort of enthusiasm which
takes place of reason, and is the most dangerous distemper in a
State?
105. Qu. Whether this epidemical madness should not be always before
the eyes of a legislature, in the framing of a national bank?
106. Qu. Whether, therefore, it may not be fatal to engraft trade on
a national bank, or to propose dividends on the stock thereof?
107. Qu. Whether it be possible for a national bank to subsist and
maintain its credit under a French government?
108. Qu. Whether it may not be as useful a lesson to consider the
bad management of some as the good management of others?
109. Qu. Whether the rapid and surprising success of the schemes of
those who directed the French bank did not turn their brains?
110. Qu. Whether the best institutions may not be made subservient
to bad ends?
111. Qu. Whether, as the aim of industry is power, and the aim of a
bank is to circulate and secure this power to each individual, it
doth not follow that absolute power in one hand is inconsistent with
a lasting and a flourishing bank?
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