IWDEX. 



501 



Births, (1825) of France, statement of, 

 i. 392 — proportion of, to the popula- 

 tion, 396 — diminislied number of 

 births, with an acceleration in the 

 increase of population, 393, 396 — 

 proof of the error of estimating the 

 population of countries at different 

 periods by the increase of births, 

 396. 



Boors, state of, in Russia, i. 314. 



Bootea, marriage an impediment to his 

 career in life, i. 202. 



Bountits on the exportation of com con- 

 sidered, ii. 162 — examination of 

 the arguments of Dr. Smith in sup- | 

 port of his assertion that the fall of 

 price happened in spite of the 

 bounty, and could not have hap- 

 pened in consequence of it, 169 — 

 first, that the extension of the foreign 

 market so procured, is at the ex- 

 pense of the home market, 169, 170 

 ■ — second, that the two taxes paid by 

 the people on account of the bounty, 

 must either return upon the farmer 

 by raising the price of labour, or 

 diminish the whole market of corn 

 by restraining the population of tlie 

 country, 171 — third, that as the 

 money price of corn regulates that of 

 all other home-made commodities, 

 the advantage to the proprietor from 

 the increased price is not real, 172, 

 173 — fourth, that the nature of 

 things has stamped upon corn a real 

 value, which no bounty upon expor- 

 tation, no monopoly of the home 

 market can raise, nor any competi- 

 tion can lower, 174 — 177 — mode in 

 ■which a bounty upon exportation 

 operates, 177 — 182 — objection to a 

 bounty, — under the most favourable 

 circumstances it cannnt produce per- 

 manent cheapness, 182 — -184. 



Brahmens, practice of marriage among, 

 i. 200. 



Brandenburgh ; proportion of yearly 

 deaths and births to the population, 

 in the small towns and the villages 

 of, i. 331 — variations in the propor- 

 tions of births to deaths and to mar- 

 riages, at dirt'crent periods, 507 — 

 churmark of ; proportion of its an- 

 nual marriages to its population, 326 

 — its general mortality, 331. S'oS — 

 variation in the proportion of births 

 to deaths and to marriages, in differ- 

 ent periods, 508, 509 — iieumark of; 

 general mortality in, 333. 



Brazil, Portuguese colony of; quick 



progress which it made in population, 

 notwithstanding its ill management, 

 i. 516. 



British isles ravaged for two centuries 

 by the ancient northern invaders, i. 

 113 — peculiarly free from great vari- 

 ations in their annual produce of 

 grain, ii. 192. 



Brothers, younger, according to the 

 Hindoo customs, cannot marry with- 

 out disgrace before the eldest, i. 195 

 — in Tibet all the brothers of a fa- 

 mily associate with one female, 203. 



Bruce (Mr.) polygamy defended by, 

 i. 151. 



Burials. See Deaths. 



C. 



Campine, in Brabant, brought into cul- 

 tivation from the state of a barren 

 and arid sand,ii. 249, 2.50. 



Canada, occasional famines among the 

 nations of, i. 58. 



Cannibalism, among the American In- 

 dians and others, i. 50, 51. 69, 70 — 

 had its origin probably in extreme 

 want, 50. 



Casatshia tribe of Tartars ; state of, with 

 respect to the checks to population 

 among them, i. 1 25. 



Catherine (Empress), beneficial changes 

 effected by, in Siberia, i. 174. 



Cattle, organic perfectibility of, ii. 11, 

 12. 



Celihacxi powerfully inculcated in Tibet, 

 i. 202. 



Charity indiscriminate, wherever it ex- 

 ists will never want objects, i. 204. 



of the Direction of our Charity, 



ii. 361— benevolence, like other im- 

 pulses, must be frequently brought 

 to the test of utility, 361 — 364— its 

 pernicious effects if exercised indis- 

 criminately, 362, 363— the effect of 

 charity upon the giver is to purify 

 and exalt the mind, 364, 365— con- 

 trary effect, — of the sums distributed 

 by the parochial laws, 365 — of the 

 subscriptions given in some cases to 

 the great public institutions, ib. — of 

 the relief of comman beggars, 366 — 

 opposite description of real charity : 

 voluntary and active, in the relief 

 of proper objects, 366, 367 — pro- 

 duces daily advances in virtue in 

 those who practise it, 367— the power 

 of giving or withholdingrelief, vested 

 in parish officers and justices, very 

 different in its nature and effect from 

 voluntary charity, 368-Tbcneficial 



