INDEX. 



527 



U. 



Utifruitfulness of women among the 

 American Indians, accounted tor, i. 

 37 — 40. 



Union of the sexes : early, in New 

 Holland, i. 30. 



Unmarried persons ; proportion of, in 

 the Paj'S deVaud, i. 352 — in France, 

 363 — those who live single, or marry 

 late, do not diminish the absolute 

 population, but merely the propor- 

 tion of premature mortality, 403. — 

 See also the articlesCe/i'ftacy, Chastity, 

 Restraint and Marriage. 



Uncultivated land, neither injures nor 

 benefits the poor, ii. 246. 



Unnatural vice, its prevalence in the 

 Turkish dominions, i. 186. 



Usbeck Tartars, manners of, i. 124 — 

 state of, wilh respect to the checks to 

 population, 124, 125. 



Utility, the surest criterion of morality 

 afforded by the light of nature, ii. 

 S63, 364. 



V. 



Vaccination, its effects in Siveden, i. 

 298. 



Valley, beautiful, in Norway, \. 279, 

 note. 



Van Diemen's Land; state of, with re- 

 spect to the checks to population; 

 scarcity of food, i. 25. 



Vassalage of the Russian peasants, the 

 principal obstacle to a rapid increase 

 of population among them, i. 314. 



Vice, checks (both preventive and po- 

 sitive) to population which come un- 

 der this head, i. 16. 



Villages, average mortality of, i. 278 — 

 agricultural ; general proportion of 

 their annual marriages to their popu- 

 lation, 327 — the rate of mortality 

 in single states will depend much 

 upon the proportion of the inhabi- 

 tants of towns to villagers, 332, 333 

 — different proportions of mortality 

 in towns and in villages, 407. 



Virginia, failures and hardships experi- 

 enced in the first settlement of the 

 English colony there, ii. 50. 



Virtuous /OTe,peculiardelightsof,ii.261 , 

 262. 



Vis medicatrix reipuMictc, the desire of 

 bettering our condition, and the fear 

 of making it worse, ii. 90. 433. 



W. 

 Wages (See Labour). 

 Wallace, Mr., in his system of equality. 



has very insufficiently estimated the 

 principle of population, and the diffi- 

 culties arising from it, ii. 1. 



War ; maxims of, among the American 

 Indians, i. 49, 50 — among the New 

 Zealanders, 68, 69 — excessive ra- 

 vages of, in Abyssinia, 152 — the 

 wars among the Grecian states were 

 extremely bloody, 242 — wars do not 

 depopulate much while industry con- 

 tinues in vigour, 249 — this check to 

 population has abated in modem 

 Europe, 534 — a system of moral re- 

 straint might be expected to repress 

 the frequency of war, ii. 278,279 — 

 281 — great strength of such a state 

 of society in a war of defence, 281. 



Waste among the rich, does not influ- 

 ence the average distress of the poor, 

 ii. 245 — neither injures nor benefits 

 the poor, 245, 246. 



Waste lands ; the existence of, without 

 other evidence, no ground of infer- 

 ence against the internal economy o{ 

 a country, ii. 250, 251. 



Wealth; Of increasing, as it affects the 

 Condition of the Poor, ii. 211 — an in- 

 crease of the revenue or stock of a 

 society, is not always a proportional 

 increase of the funds destined for 

 tlie maintenance of labour, 211,212 

 — case of this nature, when a nation 

 adds what it saves from its yearly re- 

 venue to its manufacturing capital 

 solely, 212 — the increase of wealth 

 and capital rarely accompanied with 

 a proportionately increased power of 

 supporting an additional number of 

 labourers,213 — illustration of that po- 

 sition from a comparison of the early 

 and present state of Europe, 213 — 

 215 — every increase of national 

 stock, not an increase of real funds 

 for the maintenance of labour, 215 — 

 217,218 — illustration fromthe exam- 

 ple of China, 217, 213— state of the 

 pooremployed in manufactories with 

 respect to health, and other circum- 

 stances, 219 — 222 — an increase of 

 wealth beneficial to the lower classes, 

 though it does not imply a propor- 

 tionate increase of the funds for the 

 maintenance of mere labour, 228 — 

 of the definition of wealth ; and of 

 the agricultural and commercial sys- 

 tems. See under theartjcle^g^rtcu/- 

 turc. 



WestminsterReview, erroneous statement 

 in the, on the subject of the Corn 

 Laws, ii. 207, 208, note. 



