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INDEX. 



R. 



Rayrml, Ahb€ ; his inconsistent rea- 

 soning in his comparisons of savage 

 and civilized life, i. 58 — his absurd 

 position on the right of man to sub- 

 sistence, ii. 320. 



Redundant population, very distinct 

 from a population actually great, i. 

 106. 110.116 — cause why poor, cold, 

 and thinly-peopled countries tend 

 generally to a superfluity of inhabit- 

 ants, 116. 



Reform, erroneous views of, corrected, 

 ii. 328—334. 



Reghte)'s of births and deaths must al- 

 ways afford very uncertain data for 

 estimating the population, i. 421 — 

 those in England and Wales more 

 deficient in the former than in the 

 latter part of the last century, 416 

 — 419 — imperfection of registers of 

 births, deaths, and marriages in Scot- 

 land, 430, 451 — in most countries 

 tlie omission in the births and deaths 

 is greater than in the marriages, i. 

 471. 



Effects of Epidemics on Registers 



of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 

 considered, i. 499 — table on this 

 subject, 500 — observations on the 

 above table; the number of mar- 

 riages very nearly doubled in the 

 year after a plague, 501 — fruitful- 

 ness of marriages after that period, 

 504 — variations in the proportions 

 of births to deaths in the different 

 periods, 504, 505 — -mortality after 

 the plague, 505 — several examples 

 of the continual variations in the 

 proportions of the births and mar- 

 riages, as well as of the deaths, to 

 the whole population, 507 — 512- 

 the least variable proportion is that 

 of the births to marriages ; and rea 

 son of this, 311 — effects of the com- 

 mon epidemical years, 312. 



(1825), omissions in those of Eng- 

 land, i. 393. 444, 445. 

 Representative system of government, 

 its powerful effect in favouring the 

 prudential check to population, ii. 

 325. 

 Restraint. See the articles Moral and 



Prudential Restraint. 

 Restrictions on the importation of corn, 

 in what cases applicable, ii. 187 — 

 199 — objections to such restrictions, 

 185. 199. 205— 209— beneficial re- 

 sults of the restrictions on the impor- 

 tation of foreign corn in a country 



possessed of great lauded resources, 



202—204. 



Retirement, religious; frequent and 

 strict, in Tibet, i. 202, 203. 



Revenue the source of population, and 

 not population of revenue, ii. 242. 



Revolution; mischievous effects of the 

 hopes entertained by the lower classes 

 of immediate relief from, ii. 312, ft 

 seq. — the circulation of just principles 

 respecting population among them, 

 would destroy such expectations, 4 19. 



Rickman, Mr. ; observations on his 

 statement of the rates of increase in 

 the population, i. 443 — 448. 



Right of the poor to support should be 

 formally disclaimed, ii. 337, 338— 

 objections against this disavowal, 

 answered, 452. et seq. 



" Rights of Man," erroneous principles 

 of that work, ii. 318—324. 



Roman empire, its fall occasioned by 

 repeated inundations of barbarians 

 from the north of Europe, i. 97 — 106. 



Romans ; State of, with Respect to the 

 Checks to Population, i. 243 — de- 

 structive ravages of war during their 

 first struggles for power, repaired by 

 the principle of increase, 243, 244 — ■ 

 practice of infanticide in early times, 

 and its effect, 244 — the abolition of 

 the comparative equality of property 

 produced a great decrease in the 

 number of citizens, 245 — the jv^ 

 trium liberorum ineffectual in adding 

 to the population, 246 — vicious habits 

 of every kind prevalent, 247, 248 — 

 the Roman world not most populous 

 during the long peace under Trajan 

 and the Antonines, 248 — question of 

 the superior populousness of ancient 

 or modern nations, 253 — compara- 

 tive efficacy of the preventive and 

 the positive checks among the Ro- 

 mans, 256. 



Rumford, Count ; his plan of improving 

 the condition of the poor considered, 

 ii. 390. 



Russia ; State of, with Respect to the 

 Checks to Population, i. 299 — extra- 

 ordinary results of the lists of births, 

 deaths, and marriages, 299, 300 — 

 proportion of births to deaths in dif- 

 ferent districts, 300 — of marriages to 

 births, ib. — of deaths to the popula- 

 lation, 301 — 303 — of births to the 

 population, 303, 304 — of boys dying 

 within the first year, 304 — of yearly 

 marriages to the population, ib. — the 

 registers of Petersburgh give a much 



