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INDEX. 



Holland, proportion of annual mar- 

 riages and deatiis in some villages of, 

 i. Sai, 322. 324— of annual births 

 to the population, 331 — the esta- 

 blishment of poor-laws in, consi- 

 dered, ii. 348. — See Corn Laios, 

 (1825). 



Hnhtein, duchy of ; comparative state 

 of the poor in, ii. 349. 



Horses, strong only in proportion to the 

 strength of their weakest part, i. 139, 

 140. 



Hospitals and charitable establishments, 

 statements respecting the condition 

 of, in France, i. 381, note. — See the 

 a.nic\esLying-in-Hospitals and Found- 

 lijighospitals. 



Hudson's Bay, famine among the In- 

 dians in the neighbourhood of, i. 57. 



Hunters, tribes of, must be thinly scat- 

 tered over the earth, i. 36 — their 

 support precarious, 59. 



Husbands ; several attached to one 

 woman in a certain tribe of Indostan, 

 and in Tibet, i. 200. 203. 



Illegitimate births ; proportions of, in 

 France, before and during the revo- 

 lution, i. 368. 375— (1825) propor- 

 tion of, 392. 



case of illegitimate children con- 

 sidered in a plan of a gradual abo- 

 lition of the poor-laws, ii. 340 — 345. 



Improvement in plants, animals, and 

 man, Condorcet's theory of, exa- 

 mined, ii. 8 — 15. 



in the Condition of the Poor, dif- 

 ferent plans of, considered (see un- 

 der the article Poor), ii. 374. 



Of our rational expectations re- 

 specting the future improvement of 

 society, ii. 431 — the unhealthiness 

 of great towns and manufactories will 

 always operate as a positive check 

 to population, ih. — some extension of 

 the prudential restraint from mar- 

 riage is probable, 432, 433 — much 

 good would be done by merely 

 changing gradually the institutions 

 tending directly to encourage mar- 

 riage, and ceasing to circulate erro- 

 neous opinions on this subject, 435 

 — the beneficial effects that may re- 

 sult from the general reasonings of 

 this work, unconnected with the 

 adoption of any particular plan, 436 

 — methods in which these reasonings 

 may operate advantageously among 

 the higher and middle classes of so- 



ciety, 437 — among the poor, 438 — 

 the evils resulting from the principle 

 of population have rather diminished 

 than increased in modern times, and 

 may reasonably be expected still 

 further to decrease, 440 — general 

 conclusion on this subject, 440, 441. 



Increase of both plants and animals 

 bounded only by the means of sub- 

 sistence, i. 2, 3. 



Indians, American ; state of, with re- 

 spect to the checks to population 

 among them, i. 35 — their country 

 very thinly peopled at the time of 

 its discovery, 36 — means by which 

 their population was kept down to 

 this scanty supply of food, ib. — want 

 of ardour in the men not peculiar to 

 the American Indians, but generated 

 by the hardships and dangers of sa- 

 vage life, 37 — unfruitfulness of the 

 women produced by their degraded 

 and wretched state, and other causes, 

 37. 39, 40 — frequent abandonment 

 and destruction of children, 41 — the 

 cause of the remarkable exemption 

 of these people from deformities, ib, 

 ■ — polygamy allowed, but seldom 

 practised, 42 — marriages not early, 

 ib. — dangers attending mature age ; 

 alternate gluttony and abstinence, 

 43 — diseases, 44 — dreadful epide- 

 mics and contagious distempers, 45 — 

 instance of a very extraordinary deso- 

 lation by an epidemic, 45, 46 — their 

 liability to pestilential diseases from 

 the dirt of their persons, and close- 

 ness and filth of their cabins, 46 — 

 perpetual and ferocious hostilities of 

 the different nations and tribes, 48 — 

 rapid increase of them under favour- 

 able circumstances, 53 — the imme- 

 diate checks to their population re- 

 gulated by the means of subsistevice, 

 54 — in a general view of the Ameri- 

 can continent, the population of the 

 Indians seems to press hard against 

 the limit of subsistence, 56 — famine 

 and scarcities among the savages of 

 Florida, and in various other parts, 

 56 — 61 — some fortunate train of cir- 

 cumstances necessary to induce sa- 

 vages to adopt the pastoral or agri- 

 cultural state, 63 — the causes of the 

 rapid diminution of their numbers 

 may all be resolved into the three 

 great checks to population (see the 

 article Checks), 63 — their insatiable 

 foodness for spirituous liquors, 64 — • 

 their connexion vfith Europeans has 



