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perity, 92. Clear anil gross profit, distin-guished, 96. The nature of the highest ordi-nary rate of, defined, 97. Double interest,deemed in Great Britain a reasonable mer-cantile profit, ib. In thriving countries, lowprofit may compensate the high wages of la-bour, 98. The operation of high profits andhigh wages, compared, ib. Compensatesiuconvenieneies and disgrace, 101. Of stock,how directed, 111. Large profits must hemade from small capitals, 112. Why goodsare cheaper in the metropolis than in countryvillages, ib. Great fortunes more frequentlymade by trade in large towns than in smallones, I 18. Is naturally low in rich, and highin poor countries, 246, How that of the dif-ferent classes of traders is raised, 340. Pri-vate, the sole motive of employing capitalsin any branch of business, 353. Whenraised by monopolies, encourage luxury, 573.

Projects, unsuccessful, in arts, injuriousto a country, 322.

Property, passions which prompt mankindto the invasion of, 665. Civil government ne-cessary for the production of, ib. Wealth asource of authority, 667. 669.

Provisions, how far the variations in theprice of, affect labour and industry, 76. 84.87. Whether cheaper in the metropolis, or incountry villages, 112. The prices of, betterregulated by competition than by law, 1*42.A rise in the prices of, must be uniform, toshew that it proceeds from a depreciation ofthe value of silver, 237.

Provisors, object of the statuto of, in Eng-land, 756.

Prussia, mode of assessing the land-taxthere, 788.

Public works and institutions, how to bemaintained, 877. Equity of tolls for passngeover roads, bridges, and canals, 879. Whygovernment ought nut to have the manage-ment of turnpikes, 881. Nor of other publicworks, 885.

Purveyance, a service still exacted in mostparts of Europe , 388.

Quakers of Pennsylvania , inference fromtheir resolution to emancipate all their negroslaves, 384.

Quesnai, M. view of his agricultural sys-tem of political economy, 832. His doctrinegenerally subscribed to, 839.

Quito , populousness of that city, 528.

Reformation, rapid progress of the doc-trines of, in Germany , 757. In Sweden andSwitzerland , 758. In England and Scotland ,ib. Origin of the Lutheran and Calvinistic sects, 739.

Regulated companies. See Companies.Religion, the object of instruction in, 789.Advantage the teachers of a new religion en-joy over those of one that is established, ib.Origin of persecution for heretical opinions,ib. Row the KCftl of the inferior clergy of the

church of Rome is kept alive, 740. Utilityof ecclesiastical establishments, 742. Howunited with the civil power, 743.

Rent, reserved, ought not to consist ofmoney, 88. Rut of corn, 39. Of land, con-stitutes a third part of the price of most kindsof goods, 53. An average rate of, in all coun-tries, and how regulated, 58. Makes the firstdeduction from the produce of labour em-ployed upon land, 87. The terms of, howadjusted between landlord and tenant, 142.is sometimes demanded for what is altogetherincapable of human improvement, 143. Ispaid for, and produced by, land in almost allsituations, 145. The general proportion paidfor coal mines, 188. And metal mines, 167.Mines of precious stones frequently yield norent, 171. How paid in ancient times, 179.Is raised, either directly or indirectly, byevery improvement in the circumstances ofsociety, 244. Gross and neat rent distin-guished, 266. How raised and paid underfeudal government, 315. Present averageproportion of, compared with the produce ofthe land, ih.

Rent of houses distinguished into two parts,792. Differences between rent of houses, andrent of land, 795. Rent of a house the bestestimate of a tenant’s circumstances, ib.

Retainers, under the feudal system of go-vernment, described, 382. How the con-nexion between them and their lords wasbroken, 385.

Revenue, the original sonrees of, pointedout, 55. Of a. country, of what it consists,266. The neat revenue of a society dimi-nished by supporting a circulating slock ofmoney, 289. Money no part of revenue, 270.Is not to be computed in money, but in whatmoney will purchase, 271. How produced,and how appropriated, in the lirst instance,313. Produce of land, ib. Produce of manu-factures, ib. Must always replace capital,814. The proportion between revenue andcapital, regulates the proportion between idle-ness and industry, 318. Roth the savings andthe spendings of, annually consumed, 319 .Of every society, equal to the exchangeablevalue of the whole produce of its industry,419. Of the customs, increased by drawbacks,485. Why government ought not to take themanagement of turnpikes, to derive a revenuefrom them, 881. Public works of a local na-ture, always belter maintained by provincialrevenues, ihan by the general revenue of thestale, 885. The abuses in provincial revenuestrilling, when compared with those in the re-venue of a great empire, 686. The greaterthe revenue of the church, the smaller mustbe tlmt of the state, 764. The revenue of thestate ought to be raised proportionality fromthe whole society, 767. Local expenses oughtto ho defrayed by a local revenue, ib. In-quiry into the sources of public revenue, 768.Of the republic of Hamburgh, 769. 771.Whether the government of Britain could un-