INDEX. 



515 



277 — might be expected to repress 

 the frpquency of war, 278— great 

 strength of such a state of society in 

 awar of defence, '^81 — conclusion : 

 the justice of the Deit^' unimpeach- 

 able, in making this virtue necessary 

 by his general laws, 281, 282. 



Moral restraint ; this is the only eflfec- 

 tual mode of bettering the condition 

 of the poor, ii. 283 — 291 — consider- 

 ation of the objection to this measure, 

 that by endeavouring to urge this 

 duty on the poor, we may increase 

 the quantity of vice relating to the 

 sex, 292—299. 



Vindication of the principles 



maintained on the subject of moral 

 restraint, ii. 495 — 498 — Sec also the 

 article Prudential Restraint. 



Mortnlitii ; order of, extremely variable, 

 i. 259, 260— division of the states of 

 Europe into classes in this respect 

 332 — -335 — has decreased in almost 

 every town in Europe within the last 

 200 years, 388 — -annual mortality in 

 England and Wales considered, 403 

 — 414 — different proportions of, in 

 towns and in villages, 405 — 410 — 

 See also the articles Deaths, England 

 (1825), France (1825). 



Moscow, management of the foundling 

 hospital at, i. 310, 311. 



Mowing; perfection of the art of, in 

 Switzerland ai\d Norway, i. 355. 



N. 



Nature; constancy of the laws of, the 

 foundation of all human knowledge, 

 ii. 10. 



Nayrs, their practice with respect to 

 the commerce of the sexes, &c. i. 

 199, 200. 



Kedad, or putrid fevers of the Tropics, 

 i. 154. 



Negro nations of Africa ; their habits, 

 powerful checks to population, i. 144 

 — constant wars, and want of indus- 

 try, 145 — shortness of life among 

 them, 145, 146 — practice of mar- 

 riage, 146, 147 — ;;reat and constant 

 exportationof slaves, 147 — the popu- 

 lation, notwithstanding all these cir- 

 cumstances, continually pressing be- 

 yond the means of subsistence, 147, 

 148 — practice of polygamy, and its 

 effects considered, 146 — 150 — 153 

 — diseases, 154 — poverty, bad diet, 

 and want of cleanliness, 155 — 

 dreadful instances of famine, 155 — 

 160. 



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Newbury; proportion of its mortality 

 to its population, i. 406. 



New Caledonia, occasional scarcity at, 

 i. 89. 



New England, hardships experienced in 

 the first settlement of this colony, ii. 

 51. 



New Holland ; State of the Natives of, 

 with Respect to the Checks to Popu- 

 lation, i. 26— scarcity of food, 27 — 

 29 — cruel treatment of their women, 

 and early union of the sexes, 29 — 31 

 — a great part of the women without 

 children, Sl^suckingchildrenburied 

 alive with the mother at her death, 

 20 — difficulty of rearing children, 32 

 — wars between different tribes, and 

 perpetual private contests ; manner 

 of living ; and dreadful epidemic, 33 

 — still the population keeps up to a 

 level with the average supply of food, 

 34 — hardships experienced in the 

 first settlement of the colony of Port 

 Jackson, ii. 52,53. 



New Jersey, average proportion of births 

 to deaths in, i. o29. 



New Zealand ; state of, with respect 

 to the checks to population, i. 68 — 

 perpetual hostility of the different 

 tribes, and their cannibalism, 68 — 70 

 — the population, nevertheless, sel- 

 dom repressed below the average 

 means of subsistence, 71. 



Nootka Sound, frequent scarcity of pro- 

 visions at, i. 61, 62. 



North of Eiirope. See the articles 

 Europe and Germans. 



Northampton, proportion of its annual 

 mortality to its population, i. 406. 



Norway ; State of, with Respect to the 

 Checks to Population, i. 259— its 

 mortality small, yet its population 

 has not rapidly increased, 260 — the 

 preventive checks proportionably 

 great, 260, 261 — causes of the small 

 number of marriages, 261 — unfa- 

 vourablencss of the soil and climate, 

 263 — 267 — the preventive check 

 contributes considerably to the small- 

 nes9 of the mortality, 268, 269 — ob- 

 stacles to improved cultivation of the 

 land, 269—272 — recent advances, 

 however, both in that respect and in 

 j)opulation, 273, 274 — the woods are 

 sometimes cleared away too precipi- 

 tately, without consideration of the 

 probable value of the land when 

 cleared, 271 — proportionof its yearly 

 births to the population, 274. 



state of the poor better in many 



respects than in England, ii. 319. 



