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 factures, explained, i. 98–99; in trade, an increase of, raises wages and diminishes profit, 151; must be larger in a great town than in a country village, 153; natural consequences of a deficiency of stock in new colonies, 157; the profits on, little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning a trade, 170; but by the risk, or disagreeableness of the business, 182; stock employed for profit, sets into motion the greater part of useful labor, 371; no accumulation of, necessary in the rude state of society, 381; the accumulation of, necessary to the division of labor, 382; stock distinguished into two parts, 385; the general stock of a country or society, explained, 387; houses, 388; improved land, 389; personal abilities, ibid.; money and provisions, 390; raw materials and manufactured goods, ibid.; stock of individuals, how employed, 393; is frequently buried or concealed, in arbitrary countries, 393–394.—The profits on, decrease, in proportion as the quantity increases, ii. 13; on what principles stock is lent and borrowed at interest, 34; that of every society divided among different employments, in the proportion most agreeable to the public interest, by the private views of individuals, 401; the natural distribution of, deranged by monopolizing systems, 403; every derangement of, injurious to the society, 405.—Mercantile, is barren and unproductive, according to the French agricultural system of political economy, iii. 12; how far the revenue from, is an object of taxation, 256–257; a tax on, intended under the land tax, 260.

Stockings, why cheaply manufactured in Scotland, i. 190–191; when first introduced into England, 365.

Stone quarries, their value depends on situation, i. 252, 269.

Stones, precious, of no use but for ornament, and how the price of is regulated, i. 265; the most abundant mines of, would add little to the wealth of the world, 266.

Subordination, how introduced into society, iii. 69; personal qualifications, 70; age and fortune, 70–71; birth, 72; birth and fortune two great sources of personal distinction, 73.

Subsidy, old, in the English customs, the drawbacks upon, ii. 221.—Origin and import of the term, iii. 303.

Sugar, a very profitable article of cultivation, i. 243; ii. 82; drawbacks on the exportation of, from England, 222; might be cultivated by the drill plow, instead of all hand labor by slaves, 340.—A proper subject for taxation, as an article sold at a monopoly price, iii. 322.

Sumptuary laws superfluous restraints on the common people, ii. 29.

Surinam, present state of the Dutch colony there, ii. 318.

Switzerland, establishment of the reformation in Berne and Zurich, iii. 198; the clergy there zealous and industrious, 209; taxes how paid there, 262, 275.

, in France, the nature of that tax, and its operation, explained, iii. 266 et seq.