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INDEX. 



Menu, extracts from the ordinances of, 

 i. 190—197. 



Mexico, frequent scarcity of provisions 

 in, i. 60 — quick progress which the 

 Spanish colony made in population, 

 notwithstanding its ill management, 

 515 — cruelties of the first settlers, ii. 

 50. 



Migrations of mankind, the early, con- 

 sidered, i. 92 — 95 — of the ancient 

 Germans, regular and concerted, 

 101—105. 



Miri, or general land-tax paid to the 

 sultan ; moderate in itself, but made 

 oppressive and ruinous by ihc agents 

 of government, i. 180 — 182. 



Misery, checks to population which 

 come under this head, i. 16 — the 

 general consequence of vice, ib. note. 



Mob, the most fatal of all monsters to 

 freedom, ii, 312, 313 — its tendency 

 to produce tyranny, 313 — the dread 

 of it caused the late surrenders of the 

 privileges of the people to the govern- 

 ment, 314, 315. 



Moguls, after conquering the northern 

 provinces of China, proposed in 

 council to exterminate all its inha- 

 bitants, i. 121 — their destructive 

 wars, 128. 



Money cannot be made the means of 

 raising the condition of the poor with- 

 out proportionably depressing others, 

 ii. 65 — may confer particular, but 

 not universal, assistance, 118 — See 

 also the article Bayiks. 



Moral Code ; it is no valid objection 

 against the publication of one, that 

 it will never be universally practised, 

 ii. 283. 



Moral restraint defined, i. 15. and note. 



Of our Obligation to practise this 



Virtue, ii. 255 — it is certainly the 

 best of all the immediate checks to 

 population, 256 — the opinions re- 

 specting population originating in 

 barbarous ages have prevented us 

 from attending to the dictates of rea- 

 son and nature on this subject, ib. — 

 the evils arising from the excessive 

 indulgence of the passions, an admo- 

 nition that they ought to be re- 

 strained, 256, 257 — the conse- 

 quences of increasing too fast are 

 admonitions of the same kind, 257 — 

 diseases are indications that we have 

 offended against some of the laws 

 of nature, 258 — thus epidemics 

 point out that we haveincreased too 

 fast for the -means of subsistence, 



ib. — evil effects of an irregular in- 

 dulgence of the passions, 259 — yet 

 a diminution of the pleasure arising 

 from their gratification would pro- 

 duce a much greater loss than gain 

 to general happiness, 260 — pecu- 

 liar delights of virtuous love, 261 

 — the passion between the sexes 

 operates permanently upon human 

 conduct, 261, 262 — has the most 

 powerful tendency to soften and me- 

 liorate the character, 263 — is strong- 

 est, and has most beneficial effects, 

 where obstacles are thrown in the 

 way of ver3' early and universal gra- 

 tification, 263, 264 — the evil result- 

 ing from its irregular indulgence 

 must not be diminished by the ex- 

 tinction or diminuiioji of the passion 

 itself, 264, 265 — in this and all the 

 other passions, it is only the regula- 

 tion or direction of them that is 

 wanted, 265 — the province of reason 

 is the government of the passions, 

 266 — the fecundity of the species too 

 would not admit of any very consi- 

 derable diminution, 266 — 269 — nor 

 would the desire of marriage, 268, 

 269 — the duty of moral restraint rests 

 upon the same foundation as our 

 obligation to practise any of the 

 other virtues, ih. 

 Moral restraint ; Of the Effects which 

 would result to Society from the Pre- 

 valence of this Virtue, ii. 270 — re- 

 moval of any imputation on the good- 

 ness of the Deity, for calhng beings 

 into existence by the laws of nature, 

 ■which caiuiot by those laws be sup- 

 ported in existence, 270, 271 — the 

 subjection of the passions a principal 

 requisite to happiness, 271 — bene- 

 ficial state of society exhibiting a 

 great prevalence of moral restraint, 

 271, 272^n such a state, the pe- 

 riod before marriage must be passed 

 in strict chastity, 272 — purity of 

 intercourse between young persons 

 in these circumstances, 273 — later 

 marriages would prolong the pe- 

 riod of 3'outh and hope, and lead 

 to fewer ultimate disappointments, 

 274, 275 — the most eligible age 

 for them must depend entirely on 

 circumstances and situation, 276 — 

 objection from the difficulty of 

 moral restraint answered, 276, 277 

 — this system would very greatly 

 increaje the sum of pleasurable 

 sensations from the passion of love. 



