INDEX. 



509 



habitants all destroyed by hunger, i. 

 158, 159. 

 Celderland ; proportion of its annual 

 mortality to its population, and of 

 births to deaths, i. 334. 

 Geneva ; calculation respecting the pro- 

 bability of life, and the mean life at, 

 in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and 

 eighteenth centuries, i. 341. 

 Germans, ancient ; their destructive ir- 

 ruptions into the Roman empire, i. 97 

 — 101 — their emigrations regular and 

 concerted, 98. 103—105 — their vast 

 repeated losses, recruited by the 

 power of population,101,102 — errors 

 of Gibbon and Machiavel on this 

 point, 104, 105— their manners, as 

 described by Tacitus, liiglily favour- 

 able to the principle of increase, 109 

 — rapid succession of human beings 

 among them, 110, 111. 

 Germany, state of, with respect to a 

 system of poor-laws, considered, ii. 

 348, 349. 

 Godwin, Mr. ; general character of his 

 Inquiry concerning Politicaljustice, 

 ii. 18 — his systeui of equality im- 

 practicable, 18, 19 —his error in at- 

 tributing all the vices and misery of 

 society to human institutions, 20 — 

 his estimate of the benefits attendant 

 upon his system of equality vision- 

 ary and false, 20, 21 — unfavour- 

 able picture presented by a ra- 

 tional contemplation of the subject, 

 24 — s;8 — places the difficulties aris- 

 ing from an excess of population at 

 an immeasurable distance, 19 — 

 these dirticulties, on the contrary, of 

 immediate occurrence, 24. 27, 28 — 

 in the state of equality supposed by 

 him, the principal laws which at 

 present govern civilized society, 

 would be successively dictated by 

 the most imperious necessity, 29, 

 30 — administration of property, 30 

 — institution of marriage, 31, 32 — 

 inequality of conditions, 34 — thus 

 the whole system would inevitably 

 degenerate "into a state of society 

 not essentially diiferent from the 

 present, 36 — his argument respect- 

 ing right to relief considered, 453. 

 Gondur, prevalence of putrid fevers at, 



i. 154. 

 Goths, their irruptions into the Roman 



empire, i. 97. 99, 100. 102, 103. 

 Guvcrnmcnt. — Seethe article Civil Li- 

 berty. 

 Graha'me, Mr., examination and refu- 



tation of his misrepresentations and 

 objections to the principles deve- 

 loped in this work, ii. 476. 



Grange, parish of, in Scotland, causes 

 of the mortality in, i. 466, 467. 



Great Britain, population of, 1825, i. 

 441. 



Greeks, ancient state of, with respect 

 to the checks to population, i. 231 — 

 their more equal distribution of pro- 

 perty, and the division of the people 

 into small states, tended greatly to 

 encourage their increase, 232 — their 

 overflowing numbers found vent in 

 colonization, ib. — infanticide sanc- 

 tioned by their legislators, 233, 234 

 — measures proposed by Plato and 

 Aristotle to prevent a redundancy 

 of population (see their names) 235. 

 237, 238 — the positivechecks among 

 them, disease and wars, 241, 242 — 

 many of the colonies from ancient 

 Greece in the course of one or two 

 centuries rivalled, and even sur- 

 passed, their mother cities, 514. 



Greek Church, of Russia, population 



belonging to, i. 318. 

 Guiana ; disastrous failure of the at- 

 tempt of the French, in 1663, to form 

 at once a powerful colonj' in, ii. 52. 



H. 



Halberstadt, principality of; propor- 

 tion of its animal marriages to its po- 

 pulation, i. 325 — of its annual mor- 

 tality to its population, and of births 

 to deaths, 334 — variations in the 

 proportions of births to deaths and 

 to marriages at dift'erent periods, 

 510, 511. 



Halle, town of; proportion of its an- 

 nual marriages to its population, i. 

 35;5. 



Hor vests, good and bad, unfounded 

 statements of their balancing each 

 other in different countries, ii. 208, 

 note. 



Healthiness, increased, of a country ; 

 its eft'ect in diminishing the propor- 

 tions of deaths, births, and mar- 

 riages, i. 449. 



Heir male, considered as an object of 

 the first importance in the ordinances 

 of Menu, i. 190. 



Highlands of Scotland, probably more 

 redundant in population than any 

 other part of Great Britain, i. 106. 

 533. 



Historti might be made more useful if 

 it embraced statistical subjects, i. 

 19—21. 



