The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [363]
358. How that of the different classes of traders is raised, 461. Private, the sole motive of employing capitals in any branch of business,
474. When raised by monopolies, encourages luxury, 195.
Property, passions which prompt mankind to the invasion of, 297–8. Civil government necessary for the protection of, 298. Wealth a source of authority, 299, 300, 301.
Provisions, how far the variations in the price of, affect labour and industry, 177, 185–6. Whether cheaper in the metropolis, or in country villages, 188. The prices of, better regulated by competition than by law, 246. A rise in the prices of, must be uniform, to shew that it proceeds from a depreciation of the value of silver, 347.
Provisors, object of the statute of, in England, 293.
Prussia, mode of assessing the land-tax there, 425.
Public works and institutions, how to be maintained, 310. Equity of tolls for passage over roads, bridges, and canals, 312. Why government ought not to have the management of turnpikes, 315. Nor of other public works, 319.
Purveyance, a service still exacted in most parts of Europe, 493.
Quakers of Pennsylvania, inference from their resolution to emancipate all their negro slaves, 489.
Quesnai, M., view of his agricultural system of political œconomy, 260. His doctrine generally subscribed to, 265 – 6.
Quito, populousness of that city, 148.
Reformation, rapid progress of the doctrines of, in Germany, 394. In Sweden, and Switzerland, 395. In England and Scotland, ib. Origin of the Lutheran and Calvinistic sects, 396 – 7.
Regulated companies. See Companies.
Religion, the object of instruction in,
375. Advantage The Teachers Of A New Religion Enjoy Over Those Of One That Is Established, 376. Origin Of Persecution For Heretical Opinions, ib. How The Zeal Of The Inferior Clergy Of The Church Of Rome is kept alive, 376 – 7. Utility of ecclesiastical establishments,
308. How united with the civil power, 380.
Rent, reserved, ought not to consist of money, 137. But of corn, ib. Of land, constitutes a third part of the price of most kinds of goods, 153. An average rate of, in all countries, and how regulated, 157. Makes the first deduction from the produce of labour employed upon land, 168. The terms of, how adjusted between landlord and tenant, 247. Is sometimes demanded for what is altogether incapable of human improvement, 248. Is paid for, and produced by, land in almost all situations, 250. The general proportion paid for coal mines, 272. And metal mines, 273. Mines of precious stones frequently yield no rent, 278. How paid in ancient times, 286. Is raised, either directly or indirectly, by every improvement in the circumstances of society, 355. Gross and neat rent distinguished, 382. How raised and paid under feudal government, 434. Present average proportion of, compared with the produce of the land, ib. Of houses, distinguished into two parts, 432. Difference between rent of houses, and rent of land, 434. Rent of a house the best estimate of a tenant’s circumstances, 435.
Retainers, under the feudal system of government, described, 508. How the connexion between them and their lords was broken, 512.
Revenue, the original sources of, pointed out, 154 –5. Of a country, of what it consists, 381. The neat revenue of a society, diminished by supporting a circulating stock of money, 384. Money no part of rev enue, 385. Is not to be computed in money, but in what money will purchase, 386. How produced, and how appropriated, in the first instance, 431. Produce of land, ib. Produce of manufactures, ib. Must always replace capital, 432. The proportion between revenue and capital regulates the proportion between idleness and industry, 437. Both the savings