INDEX. 



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lion of a real permanent inciease in 

 any country, is the increase of the 

 means of subsistence, 530 — coun- 

 tries are populous according to the 

 quantity of human food which they 

 produce or can acquire, and happy 

 according to the liberahty with which 

 this food is divided, 532 — a country 

 left to its own natural progress in 

 civilization, could never be said to 

 be fi"ee from distress lor want of 

 food, 533 — conclusion from the 

 whole : the three propositions proved 

 which were announced (i. 23, 24) in 

 the outset, 533, 534. 



Population; On the prevailing Errors 

 respecting Population and Plenty 

 (See the article Plenty'), ii. 229 — 

 Eftects of Parish Allowances on Po- 

 pulation, 232 — not regulated by the 

 real wages of labour, 232, 233 — an 

 increasing population not always 

 accompanied by scarcity and ex- 

 treme poverty, 235 — exposure of 

 some prevalent prejudices, concern- 

 ing population, 237 — 253. , 



Of the Modes of correcting the 



prevailing Opinions on Population, 

 ii. 351 — this can only be done by 

 circulating juster notions on the sub- 

 ject, lb. — in the higher ranks, little 

 more is wanted than an increased 

 degree of respect and of personal 

 liberty to single women, 351, 352 — 

 among the lower classes, the same 

 object would be attained by the es- 

 tablishment of a proper system of 

 parochial education (See the article 

 Education'), 352, 353— See also par- 

 ticularly the articles Encouragement, 

 Improvement, and Objections. 



Populousneis of ancient or modern na- 

 tions, question respecting the supe- 

 riority, i. 253 — 257. 



Port Jachon ; hardships experienced 

 in the first settlement of the colony 

 of, ii. 52, 53. 



Positive checks to population enume- 

 rated, i. 15 — 17. 



Potato-grounds; plan of improving the 

 condition of the poor by means of, 

 and of cows, considered, ii. 381 

 —385. 



Poverty, miserable, among some of tlie 

 negro nations of Africa, i. 155 — ab- 

 ject, in China,215 — 217 — poverty in 

 a great degree relative, ii. 69 — when 

 hopeless, ceases to operate as a spur 

 to industry, 240 — its powerful iniiu- 

 »?ncc in j)roducing vice of every sort, 



295— 298— effect of the knowledge 

 of the principal cause of, on civil 

 liberty. ^ — See the article Civil Liberty. 



Preventive Check to pDpulution de- 

 scribed, i. 12 — if it do not produce 

 vice, is the least evil that can arise 

 fromtheprincipleof population, 14 — 

 consequences when it does produce 

 vice, ib. — moral and vicious branches 

 of this check, 15, 16 — prevalent 

 in England, 397 — more prevalent 

 in the states of modern Europe 

 than in past times or among uncivil- 

 ized nations, and at present the most 

 powerful of all the checks, 534, 53.T 

 — effectually destroyed by ignorance 

 and despotism, 240, 241 — those 

 countries where it most prevails are 

 at the same time most distinguished 

 for chastity, 434. 



Productions of the earth, observations 

 on the periods of the increase of, i. 

 6, 7 — particularly in Great Britain, 

 8—11. 



Prolifickness. See the article Fruit- 

 fulness. 



Property : an equal distribution of, 

 highly favourable to the increase of 

 population, i. 232 — where it is equal- 

 ized, the number of children should 

 be limited, according to Aristotle, 

 238 — something like the present ad- 

 ministration of property would natu- 

 rally result from a state of perfect 

 equality, ii. 29 — 31. 



Prudential restraint defined, i. lo,7iote — 

 inattention to it would cause a great 

 degree of misery' to prevail under the 

 best government, ii. 323 — founda- 

 tion of our expectations, respecting 

 the extension of this check to mar- 

 riage, 432 — ^135.— See also the ar- 

 ticle Moral Restraint. 



Prussia ; general mortality in, accord- 

 ing to different writers, i. 331. 333, 

 334 — proportion of second marriages 

 in Prussia and Silesia, 477. 



(1825) number of inhabitants, 



births, deaths, and marriages, i. 335 

 ■ — ■rate of deaths of illegitimate and le- 

 gitimate children, ii.^ — proportion of 

 births, deaths, and marriages, to the 

 population, 336 — rapid increase of 

 the population, ib. — See also the ar- 

 ticle Silesia, and names of other parts. 



Q. 



Quito; rapid progress of the Spanish 

 colony there in population, notwith- 

 standing its ill management, i. 515. 



