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 injurious to the people at large, 130.

Montauban, the inequalities in the predial taille in that generality, how rectified, iii. 240.

Montesquieu, reasons given by him for the high rates of interest among all Mohammedan nations, i. 162.—Examination of his idea of the cause of lowering the rate of interest of money, ii. 39.

Morality, two different systems of, in every civilized society, iii. 180; the principal points of distinction between them, ibid.; the ties of obligation in each system, 181; why the morals of the common people are more regular in sectaries than under the established church, 182; the excesses of, how to be corrected, 183.

Morellet, M., his account of joint stock companies, defective, iii. 131.

Mun, Mr., his illustration of the operation of money exported for commercial purposes, ii. 128.

Music, why a part of the ancient Grecian education, iii. 154; and dancing, great amusements among barbarous nations, 155.

, sometimes driven to inhuman customs, by poverty, i. 40; the number of useful and productive laborers in, always proportioned to the capital stock on which they are employed, 41; the several sons of industry seldom dealt impartially by, ibid.; maritime nations, why the first improved, 61.—How ruined by a neglect of public economy, ii. 24; evidences of the increase of a national capital, 25; how the expenses of individuals may increase the national capital, 29.

Navigation, inland, a great means of improving a country in arts and industry, i. 64; the advantages of, 231.—May be successfully managed by joint stock companies, iii. 132.

Navigation act of England, the principal dispositions of, ii. 170; motives that dictated this law, 171; its political and commercial tendency, ibid.; its consequences, so far as it affected the colony trade with England, 352–353; diminished the foreign trade with Europe, 354; has kept up high profits in the British trade, 356–357; subjects Britain to a disadvantage in every branch of trade of which she has not the monopoly, ibid.

Necessaries distinguished from luxuries, iii. 289; operation of taxes on, 290; principal necessaries taxed, 294.

Negro slaves, why not much employed in raising corn in the English colonies, ii. 82; why more numerous on sugar than on tobacco plantations, ibid.

Nile, river, the cause of the early improvement of agriculture and manufactures in Egypt, i. 64.

, bread made of, not so suitable to the human constitution, as that made of wheat, i. 249.

Ontology, the science of, explained, iii. 150.