The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [345]
Church, the richer the church, the poorer the state, 402. Amount of the revenue of the church of Scotland, 403. The revenue of the church heavier taxed in Prussia, than lay proprietors, 425. The nature and effect of tythes considered, 428.
Circulation, the dangerous practice of raising money by, explained, 407ff. In traffic the two different branches of, considered, 421.
Cities, circumstances which contributed to their opulence, 502. Those of Italy the first that rose to consequences, 503. The commerce and manufactures of, have occasioned the improvement and cultivation of the country, 515.
Clergy, a supply of, provided for, by public and private foundations for their education, 234. Curates worse paid than many mechanics, ib. Of an established religion, why unsuccessful against the teachers of a new religion, 375–6. Why they persecute their adversaries, ib. The zeal of the inferior clergy of the church of Rome, how kept alive, 376–7. Utility of ecclsiastical establishments, 378. How connected with the civil magistrate, 379.
Unsafe for the civil magistrate to differ with them, 385. Must be managed without violence, 387. Of the church of Rome, one great army cantoned over Europe, 389. Their power similar to that of the temporal barons, during the feudal monkish ages, 389. How the power of the Romish clergy declined, 391. Evils attending allowing parishes to elect their own ministers, 398.
Clothing, more plentiful than food, in uncultivated countries, 266. The materials for, the first articles rude nations have to offer, ib.
Coal, must generally be cheaper than wood to gain the preference for fuel, 270. The price of, how reduced, 272. The exportation of, subjected to a duty higher than the prime cost of, at the pit, 243. The cheapest of all fuel, 469. The tax on, absurdly regulated, 469–70.
Coal mines, their different degrees of fertility, 269–70. When fertile, are sometimes unprofitable by situation, 270. The proportion of rent generally paid for, 272. The machinery necessary to, expensive, 375.
Coal trade from Newcastle to London, employs more shipping than all the other carrying trade of England, 471.
Cochin, China, remarks on the principal articles of cultivation there, 260. Coin, stamped, the origin, and peculiar advantages of, in commerce, 129. The different species of, in different ages and countries, 130. Causes of the alterations in the value of, 130–37. How the standard coin of different nations came to be of different metals, 142.A reform in the English coinage suggested, 147. Silver, consequences attending the debasement of, 300.
Coinage of France and Britain, examined, 54. Why coin is privately melted down, 130. The mint chiefly employed to keep up the quantity thus diminished, 131. A duty to pay the coinage would preserve money from being melted or counterfeited, ib. Standard of the gold coin in France, 131. How a seignorage on coin would operate, ib. A tax upon coinage is advanced by every body, and finally paid by nobody, 134. A revenue lost, by government defraying the expense of coinage, ib. Amount of the annual coinage before the late reformation of the gold coin, 134. The law for the encouragement of, founded on prejudice, ib. Consequences of raising the denomination of, as an expedient to facilitate payment of public