INDEX. 



503 



the sexes, 228 — epidemic diseases, 

 220, 221 — exposure of children, and 

 infanticide, 222, 223— frequent fa- 

 mine, 224 et seq. 



China i its state illustrative of the pro- 

 position, that an increase of the stock 

 or revenue of a nation cannot always 

 be considered as an increase of the 

 real funds for the maintenance of 

 labour, ii. 215—217. 



Chiriguanes, their rapid increase on 

 settling in the mountains of Peru, 

 i. 53. 



Christianity ; the new light in which it 

 has placed our duty with respect to 

 marriage and population a pleasing 

 confirination of its truth and divinity, 

 and of its adaptation to an improved 

 state of society, ii. 279. 



Cimbri, irruptions of, into the Roman 

 Empire, i. 97. 102. 106. 



Circulating medium, how affected by pa- 

 rish allowances to the poor, ii. 72, 73. 



Civil Liberty, Etfects of the Knowledge 

 of the principal Cause of Poverty on, 

 ii. 311 — thisknowledgewould power- 

 fully contribute to the advancement 

 of rational freedom, ib. — the pressure 

 of distress on the lower classes, with 

 their habit of attributing it to their 

 rulers, the guardian spirit of despot- 

 ism, 311, 312 — a mob the most fa- 

 tal of all monsters to freedom, 312, 

 313 — its tendency to produce ty- 

 ranny, 3l3 — the degree of power to 

 be given to government, and the 

 measure of our submission to it, 

 must be determined by general ex 

 pediency, 3l5, 316— constant ten 

 dency in all power to encroach, 316 

 — the country gentlemen of Eng- 

 land, in diminishing their vigilance 

 as guardians of freedom, during the 

 late war, actuated less by corruption 

 than by fear, arising from the igno 

 ranee and delusions of the common 

 people, 317, 318— erroneous princi- 

 ples of Paine's Rights of Man, 318, 

 319 — a man cannot possess a right 

 to subsistence when his labour will 

 not purchase it, 319 — absurd posi- 

 tion of the Abbe Raynal on this sub- 

 ject, 320 — the general circulation of 

 true principles on this point would 

 counteract the mischievous decla- 

 mations on the unjust institutions of 

 society, 3'^0,321— if the fear of the 

 tyranny or folly of the people were 

 removed, the tyranny of government 

 could not stand, 322— ill effect of 



general declamations imputing all the 

 evils of society to human institu- 

 tions, 322, 323 — under the best go- 

 vernment a great degree of misery 

 might prevail from inattention to 

 the prudential check to population, 

 323 — the influence of a good go- 

 vernment is great in giving the best 

 direction to the checks which are 

 inevitable, 324 — grand requisites to 

 the growth of prudential habits, 325 

 — powerful effects of a representa- 

 tive system of government in this 

 respect, 325, 326 — mischievous con- 

 sequences of the hopes entertained 

 bj' the lower classes of immediate 

 relief from a revolution, 326 — a cor- 

 rect knowledge of the share attri- 

 butable respectively to government, 

 and to the poor themselves, of the 

 unhappiness of society, would power- 

 fully tend to promote the cause of 

 rational freedom, 326, 327 — illus- 

 tration of this truth by the events of 

 the last two or three years, 328 — 

 334. 



Civilized and savage life, comparative 

 advantages and disadvantages of, i. 

 89—91. 



Cleves, dukedom of; proportion of its 

 annual marriages to its population, i. 

 39.6. 



Climbing trees ; vast labour in, to which 

 the natives of New Holland are com- 

 pelled for the means of subsistence, 

 i.27. 



Colonies, new, settled in healthy coun- 

 tries where room and food were 

 abundant, have constantly made a 

 rapid progress in population, i. 514. 

 See also the article Emigration. 



Commerce: of the agricultural and com- 

 mercial systems, combined. See 

 under the article Agriculture. 



Commercial Policy, example of a more 

 liberal system" set by ministers, ii. 

 209, note. 



Commercial System ; effects of, on the 

 prices of corn, ii. 133 — Hable to be 

 affected by foreign competition, 135, 

 134. — and by domestic competition, 

 134. — illustration of this point from 

 the state of the cotton trade, 135 — 

 Commerce, liable to be affected by 

 the indolence, industry, or caprice 

 of customers, and by t!ie diminution 

 of demand occasioned by the pro- 

 gress of countries in skill and capi- 

 tal, 139. 



Condorcct, M. ; his system of equality 



