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tended to diminish tlieir sources of 

 subsistence, 63 — tlieir average popu- 

 lation still nearly on a level with the 

 average quantity of food, ib. — tenor 

 of education among the ruder tribes, 

 90. 

 Indoitan, state of, with respect to the 

 checks to population, i. 190 — mar- 

 riage very greatly encouraged, and 

 a male heir considered as an object 

 of the first importance, in the ordi- 

 nances of Menu, ib. — chastity how- 

 ever inculcated as a religious duty ; 

 and, when strict and absolute, su- 

 persedes the obligation of having 

 descendants, 192 — other circum- 

 stances which in some degree tend 

 to counteract the encouragement to 

 marriage ; division into classes,193 — 

 difficulty in the choice of a wife, 194 

 — an elder brother remaining un- 

 married, confines all the other sons 

 to the same state, 195 — manners 

 and disposition of the women, ib. — 

 expedients among different tribes to 

 prevent a numerous family, 199 — 

 201. 

 Industry ; the importation of, is of in- 

 finitely more consequence to the po- 

 pulation of a country, than the 

 importation of new inhabitants, i. 

 177. 

 , the springs of industry are de- 

 stroyed by ignorance and oppres- 

 sion, ii. 240 — industry cannot exist 

 without foresight and security, 239 

 — if general and equal, would fail to 

 yield the same advantages to indi- 

 viduals, 418, 419. 

 Intquality of conditions would inevita- 

 bly result from a state of perfect 

 equality, ii. 34 — 36. 

 Infaiiticide, in New Holland, i. 31 — 

 permitted in Otaheite, 78 — contri- 

 butes in general to increase the po- 

 pulation of a country, 75 — practised 

 on the females only, by a particular 

 tribe in India, 199 — Chinese edict 

 to prevent the drowning of children, 

 223 — practice of, probably originated 

 from the difficulty of rearing chil- 

 dren in savage life, 233 — proposed 

 by Plato, 235. T37 — practised in 

 Italy as well as in Greece, 244. — 

 See also the article Eijtosure ofChil- 

 tlrcH. 

 Ireland ; state of, with respect to the 

 checks of population, i. 469. 



• disadvantageous effect of a low 



price of food in that country, ii. 

 123 — rapid increase of populalipn, 



ib. — the money price of labour there, 

 little more than half what it is in 

 England, 124 — consequences which 

 would attend the establishment of 

 poor-laws in, 347. 



/re/anrf,( 1825), rapid increase of popu- 

 lation in, and period of doubling, i. 

 470 — average mortality, and pro- 

 portions of births and mairiages to 

 the population, unattainable, ib. 



Iroquois, dreadful instance of a scarcity 

 of provisions among a party of, i. 

 59. 



Islands; the great barriers to a further 

 increase of population in, not pecu- 

 liar to them more than to continents, 

 though more obvious,!. 66, 67. 



Israelites, on settling in a fertile district 

 of Egypt, doubled their numbers 

 every fifteen years, i. 514, 515. 



J. 



Japan ; state of, with respect to the 

 checks to population,!. 228 — causes 

 of its populousness, 2'.i9 — various 

 checks to its population, 229, 230. 



Jidda, prevalence of putrid fevers at, 

 i. 154. 



Jura, Scotch island of ; overflows with 

 inhabitants, in spite of constant and 

 numerous emigrations, i. 457. 



Kalmucks, destructive wars of, i. 125 

 — those who inhabited the fertile 

 steppes of the Wolga; their state, 

 and inquiry into the checks to popu- 

 lation among them, 137 — their rapid 

 increase, 137, note — this was limited 

 by want of pasture for their numer- 

 ous herds, 137 — by scarcity of 

 subsistence for themselves, 138 — 

 by diseases, 139 — was regulated 

 by seasons of scarcity, and not of 

 plenty, 139, 140 — and in the same 

 manner by the recurrence of unfa- 

 vourable periods, 141 — check from 

 their customs respecting marriage, 

 142 — promiscuous intercourse, ib. 

 Kirgisien I'arlars ; state of and inquiry 

 into the checks to population among 

 them, i. 134 — their destructive pre- 

 datory excursions, 134 — national 

 wars and occasional famines, 135, 

 130. 



L. 

 Labour, diflference between the nominal 

 and real price of, i. 21, 22. ii. 76 — 

 comparative wages of, in England 

 and France, before the revolution, i. 

 389, 390. 



