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INDEX. 



a singular instance of attachment 

 to principles contradicted by every 

 day's experience, ii. 2, 3 — observa- 

 tions on his statement of the difficul- 

 ties to be expected in the progress 

 of his sjstem, and on his plans for 

 their removal ; with respect to pre- 

 serving the same population, 3 — to a 

 future excess of population, 6 — -to 

 the organic perfectibility of man, 8 

 — the attempt to controvert these 

 paradoxes not useless, 1 6. 

 Ccnrn : money price of corn increased 

 by an increased number of labour- 

 ers receiving the same money wages, 

 i. 21, 22. 



, the price of com in a scarcity 



■will depend more upon the degree 

 of consumption than on the actual 

 deficiency, ii. 67, 68 — the consump- 

 tion of corn diminished by high 

 prices, 68 — the price of grain raised 

 by parish allowances, during the 

 late scarcities, 70, 71 — causes which 

 render the importation of corn ne- 

 cessary, 162 — 166 — whencorn- crops 

 are unfavourable in one part of Eu- 

 rope, it generally happens that they 

 are more or less so in another, 167 — 

 objections to restrictions upon the 

 importation of corn, 185. 187, 188. 

 205, 208 — in what cases such re- 

 strictions are applicable, 189 — 192 — 

 when a country is of such a size that 

 it may be expected finally to pror 

 duce its own food, restrictions on the 

 importation of corn may be advanta 

 geous, 1 91 — so, where a country pos- 

 sesses such a soil and climate that the 

 variations in its annual growth of com 

 are less than in most other countries, 

 191 — 195 — and also, where a state 

 possesses territory enough, not only 

 to maintairi, under actual cultivation, 

 a population adequate to a state of 

 the first rank, but also of sufficient 

 unexhausted fertility to allowof a very 

 great increase of population, 196 — 

 beneficialresults of restrictions on the 

 importation of foreign com in a coun- 

 try possessed of great landed re- 

 sources, 202 — on the expediency or 

 propriety of granting bounties on 

 the importation of corn : see the ar- 

 ticle Bounties. See also the articles 

 Agriculture and Poor Laws (under 

 Poor). 

 Corn Laws (1825) ; fluctuations in the 

 prices of corn, in Holland, compared 

 with the steadier prices in£ngland,ii. 



207, rjote — observations on the ques- 

 tion of a freedom of trade in corn, 

 207, 208, note — sympathy in the 

 prices of corn in the countries of the 

 commercial world, 208, note — power- 

 ful argument against restrictions on 

 importation, 209, note — plan best 

 adapted to secure steady prices, ib. 



Cottages ; advantage to be derived ia 

 bettering the condition of the poor, 

 from a general improvement of, ii. 

 420—422, note. 



Cow Pox. See the article Small Pox. 



Cows ; plan of improving the condi- 

 tion of the poor by means of, and of 

 potatoe-gi'ounds, considered, ii. 381 

 • — 392 — benefit derived by cottagers 

 from keeping cows, arises from its 

 being peculiar, and would be consi- 

 derably diminished if made general, 

 421 — 423 — some advantage in bet- 

 tering the condition of the poor might 

 result from the adoption of this sys- 

 tem upon a more confined plan, 422, 

 423. 



Curwen (Mr.), his plan for meliorating 

 the condition of the poor by equal- 

 izing the poor-rates, and giving the 

 poor a voice in the management of 

 the funds destined to their support, 

 considered, ii. 399, 400 — 405. 



D. 



Dantzic, proportion of its annual mar- 

 riages to its population, i. 325. 



Deaths, proportion of, to births, in 

 Norway, i. 274— in different parts 

 of Russia, 301 — in England and 

 Wales, 413 — particularly between 

 the years 1800 and 1810, 425 ct 

 seq. — proportion of, to the popula- 

 tion, in Norway, 260 — in Sweden, 

 277, 278 — -in France, before and 

 during the revolution, 372, 373, and 

 note — in different places of the mid- 

 dle parts of Europe, 331 — 334 — in 

 Russia, 494 — in different parts of 

 that country, and average mortality, 

 301. 304— average mortality in 

 Scotland, 450, 451 — dependence of 

 the marriages upon the deaths, in 

 the middle parts of Europe, 320, 

 321 — proportion of boys dying in 

 Russia within the first year, 304 — 

 the registers of Petersburg give a 

 much greater mortality of female 

 children than of male, 305 — compa- 

 tive mortality at different periods of 

 life in that city, 305, 306 — general 

 (mortality there, S06 — prodigious 



