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INDEX RAISONNÉ.

POLITICAL ECONOMY, what it is and is Occupation of the Earth—

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English assessments, 22

Wealth is well-being, 23

Growth of Wealth-Labor value of all
commodities, 23

Original powers of the soil, 24
Value of natural forces, 25
Land, a machine, 25

Vital and inanimate machinery, 25
Grammar, the mechanism of lan-
guage, 26

Occupation of the Earth-Man and land;
choice of location, 27

RENT, Ricardo's theory of, 27
Choice of land under conditions, 28
A pioneer chooses his match, 29
The richest lands rejected, 29
Men begin always with inferior
machines, 30

Abandonment of the best, 30

Cosmopolitanism not true, 30
Distributive law of settlement, 31
Colonization, ruled by isothermal
lines, 32

Invasions and migrations, history
of, 32

The law and the facts, 33
World-wide sovereignties, 33
England's occupancy of India, 33
Consequences of the law, 34

The law in the United States, Ham-
ilton, 35

Federal Unions, 35

The husbandman and landlord, 36
Human sustenance, provision for,36
Famines in agricultural countries,
37

Inter-dependence of industries, 37
Demand limited as the supply is, 38
Narrowness of outlook, 38
Imperfect agriculture, 39
Abundance of land waiting for cul-
tivation, 40

The available in reserve, 40
English agriculture, 40

Effect of balanced industries, 41
French agriculture, 42
American sufficiency, 42

Sufficiency a relative term, 42

Disorders the data of the dismal

science, 43

The law of nature, 43

Fixed property the measure of
wealth, 44

Northern and Southern States com-

pared, 45

Land monopoly in England; divi-
sion of, in France, 45
The French peasant a husbandman,

45

Popular loan of Louis Napoleon, 46
Agriculture in the United States, 46
Virginia farming, 47

Nature an economist, 48

Solidarity of a true economy, 48
August Comté, method.of, 49

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RENT-Science of agriculture in ex- RENT-
pectancy, 49

Products of land and labor, differ-
ence of, 50

Property in land usurpation! 50
Argumentum ad absurdum. 51
Fundamental principles, 51
Land under the common law of
property, 52

Theory of value solves the ques-
tion, 52

Cost and value, 53

Progress, with a better time coming,
53

Instances of amelioration of condi-
tions, 54

Specialties in inquiry, 55

A part more than the whole, 55
Means and demands of human life,
56

Consumption is reproduction, 56
Tables prefigure facts, 57

The supernatural in the mechanical
powers, 57

Delegated omnipotence, 58
Cause and effect, 58

Matter conjoined with spirit, 59
Dynamic force of coal, 59

Auxiliary force and velocity of ma
chinery, 60

Machinery the bone and muscle of
science, 60

Tyndall and Huxley verging upon
spiritualism, 61

Munificence and benevolence of
mechanical inventions. 61
Brute and human life, differences,
62

Design of life limits its duration. 62
Entertainment for man and beast,
63

Rectification of appearances, 63
The exotic and the native in Brit-
ish products, 64

Foreign trade, true system of, 65
Trade relations, natural law of, 65
Foreign trade naturally supple-
mentary, 65

Free trade a misnomer, 66

Domestic commerce is more than
huckstering, 67

Division of labor, Smith's doctrine
of, abused, 67

Commerce differs from trade, 68
Statistics of foreign trade unre-
liable, 68

British and American reports de
fective, 69

Consumption the true measure of
wealth, 69

General welfare best measure, 70
Improvement in travel and trans-

portation a measure of wealth.70
Time and cost of transportation
lessened, 70

Facilities of commerce in growth
of wealth, 71

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Summary of wealth producing
agencies, 72

Cheapness and plenty supplanting
dearness and scarcity, 72

Vastly enhanced well-being, 73
Contrast of savage life, 73
Famines in Judea, 74
Vegetable and animal food, pro-

portion of nutriment in. 75
Substitution in clothing, 75
Mineral supplies, progress of, 75
Beneficent distribution of products,
76

Substitution, successive stages of,

76

Tabular lists of, 77, 78

Progress from inferior to superior
of the same kinds, 78
Another kingdom in the domain of
the physical sciences, 79
Knowledge is power, 79
POPULATION-Rate of increase, 80
Various among Europeans, 80
Inconstant rate of mortality, 81
Inequality of survivals, 82
The inductive system incapable of
the problem, 83

The grist of the Gradgrind system,

83

A priori leads to a posteriori, 83
Mind has instincts as the body
has, 84

Design regulates fertility, 85
Law ruling in order; a basis of
reasoning, 85

The rule of law in disorder, 85
Production of life least where its

activity is greatest. 86
Unequal activity of the vital func-
tions, 87

No constant quantity, 87
Antagonism of the nervous and

generative functions, 88

Law of balance and counter-bal-
ance, 89

Indian characteristics, 89
Counterpoise of the passions, 90
Promise of harmony, 91

The law works best where most
needed, 91

Amendment of conditions tends to
adjustment of provision for life,
153

POPULATION-

Waste of life not a remedy for, but

a cause of, fecundity, 92
Summary of the argument, 93
Symmetry of J. B Say's cate-
gories, 93

Confusion in the Say school. 94
Say's triad is only a duad, 95
His distribution is nothing but ex-
change of values, 95
Blanqui and Ricardo on natural
rate of wages, 95

The protests of humanitarians, 96
Insurrections of the laborers. 97
Capital and wages born of civiliza-
tion, 97

Carey's law of wages, 98

Labor and capital joint factors in
production, 99

The gain of the purchasing power
of wages under accumulation of
products, 99

How increased wages results from
increased productiveness, 99
Productiveness of the human ma-
chine dependent upon its condi-
tion, 100

Better service commands better
wages, 100

General law, that only land and
labor enhance in exchange value,
101

All improvements in production
mean and intend greater cheap-
ness, 102

Labor-cost in cases of genius and
in best soils, 102

The enhancement of wages found
in the elevation of the masses,
103

Progressive improvement slow but
sure, 104

Historical increase of wages in
England and America, 104
In France, 104

Purchasing power of wages in do-

mestic service, 105
Tabular statement, 105

Evidences of enhancement in wages,
105

Displacement of drudgery by art,
106

Song of the Shirt to a new tune, 106
New wine bursts old bottles, 106
Prices of agricultural products not
a good standard of wages values,
106

Wages and expenses in Massachu
setts, 107

Our census reports unreliable in the
matter of wages, 108

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Illusions of averages and percent-

ages in statistical inferences, 114
MONEY-What money is, 115

Various mediums of exchange, 116
Money not a standard of values, 116
Precious metals matters of mer-
chandise, 117

Legal standard, 117
Various standards of money value
in past times, 117

Changes in the money account value
of a pound of silver, 118
Exchange value of money declines
like other things. 118

Reduced burden of British debt in
money values, 118

Production of the precious metals
in past time, 119

Production and consumption in the
arts in recent years, 120
FUNCTIONS OF MONEY-Money not dead
capital, 121

Various kinds of money adapted to
various uses, 121

Precious metals command their use

by their fitness, 122

The special qualities of the precious
metals, 122

Their quality of convenience the
essence of the money service, 123

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Standards-

Commerce in the precious metals,
139

Cosmopolitanism, its limitations,

139

The precious metals, a national in-
terest and concern, 140
Relative circulation of metallic and
paper money in United States
and in France, 140
Non-exportable currency, 141
Patriotic service of the non-export-
able during the suspension of
specie payments, 141

Debasement of lawful coin not
fraudulent, instances, 142
Convenience of coinage, 143
Depreciation, in France and Turkey
and in the United States, 143
Surplus of gold and silver, com-
modities of trade, 144

Money only an instrument of ex-
change, not of its substance and
its substance indifferent, 148
Substances of money (repetition),

145

Not equivalents, 145

National money and balance of
trade, 145

Office and service of specie reserve,
146

MONEY-A PRODUCER OF VALUES, 146
Labor, "the creator of wealth,"
rectified, 146

Compass of the term, 146
Capital in production, a co-efficient,
147

The partners in production, 147
Capital, 147
Savages, 147

Capital the primum mobile, 148
Interest-the earning of money, 148

All are hirelings who serve, 149
MONEY OF ACCOUNT, 149

Ideal money, the macutes of the
Africans, 150

Bishop Berkeley, money of account,
150

Act of Congress, Hamilton, Jeffer-

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