Abelard, page . Absurd, nothing is thought so that we have been used to, . Absurdities in sacred matters not incompatible with politeness and worldly wisdom, , , , . Acclamations made at church, . Accomplishments. The foundation of them is laid in our youth, . Acknowledgment due to ancestors, . Active, stirring man. The difference between such a one, and an easy indolent man in the same circumstances, to . Adam. All men are his descendants, .
Was not predestinated to fall, .
A miraculous production, . Administration, the civil, how it ought to be contrived, .
What men it requires, ibid.
Most branches of it seem to be more difficult than they are, .
Is wisely divided into several branches, ibid.
Is a ship that never lies at anchor, . Affections of the mind mechanically influence the body, . Affectionate scheme, .
Would have been inconsistent with the present plan, .
When it might take place, . Age, the golden, fabulous, .
Inconsistent with human nature, . Air and Space, no objects of sight, . Alexander the Great. The recompence he had in view, .
Proved from his own mouth, ibid.
Another demonstration of his frailty, . Alexander Severus, his absurd worship, . America, what the conquest of it has cost, . Americans. The disadvantage they laboured under, .
May be very ancient, ibid. Ananas, the, or pine-apple, excels all other fruit, .
To whom we owe the cultivation of it in England, . Anaxagoras, the only man in antiquity that really despised riches and honour, . Anger defined, .
Conquered by fear, ibid. and .
The operation of strong liquors imitates that of anger, .
Anger described, .
The origin of it in nature, ibid.
What creatures have most anger, ibid.
The natural way of venting anger is by fighting, . Animal Economy. Man contributes nothing to it, . Animals, all, of the same species intelligible to one another, . Antagonists, the, of prime ministers, , .
Are seldom better than the ministers themselves, . Apology, an, for several passages in the book, , .
An apology for recommending ignorance, . Applause, always grateful, .
The charms of it, . Arts and Sciences. What encourages them, .
Which will always be the most lucrative, . Atheism has hid its martyrs, . Atheism and Superstition of the same origin, .
What people are most in danger of atheism, ibid.
Atheism may be abhorred by men of little religion, . Atheists may be men of good morals, . Avarice, .
The reason why it is generally hated, ibid.
Why the society stands in need of it, .
Is equally necessary with prodigality, ibid.
What ought to be deemed as such, . Author of the Fable of the Bees, the, desires not to conceal any thing that has been said against him, .
The reason of his silence, ibid.
How far only he defends his book, .
Has called it an inconsiderable trifle, and a rhapsody, ibid.
Was unjustly censured for confessing his vanity, .
How far he is answerable for what Horatio says, .
His fears of what will happen, ibid.
The report of his having burnt his book, .
The preparatory contrivance this report was built upon, ibid. and . Authors compared to architects, .
Ought to be upon the same footing with their critics, .
When most foolishly employed, . Beards, the various modes concerning them, . Bears brought forth chiefly in cold countries, . Bear-Gardens not inferior to operas, as to the real virtue of the companies that frequent either, . Beau Monde censured .
What has always employed the wishes of them, .
Are every where the judges and refiners of language, , .
A character of a considerable part of the beau monde throughout Christendom, .
The indulgence of the beau monde censured, ibid.
Their easy compliance with ceremonies in divine worship, .
Exceptions from the generality of them, ib. Bees, in, society is natural, in man artificial, , . Beggars, their policy, , .
What sort of people complain of them most, ibid. Behaviour of modest women, .
Of a bride and bridegroom, .
Of undisciplined soldiers, .
Of a fine gentleman at his own table, .
Abroad, ibid.
To his tenants, .
To his servants, .
To tradesmen, .
Of an indolent man of no fortune, .
Of an active man in the same circumstances, .
Of men meanly born, .
Of savages, , .
Of the ill-bred vulgar, .
Of different parties, , . Belief, when we deserve it, . Believing. The necessity of it, . Benefits that accrue from the worst of people, to . Blessing, a, there is nothing created that is always so, .
The children of the poor one of the greatest blessings, . Blessings, prejudicial, . Bodies, our, visibly contrived not to last, . Brain, the, compared to a spring watch, .
The economy of it unknown, .
Conjectures on the use of it, .
Of infants compared to a slate and a sampler, .
The labour of the brain, .
The brain more accurate in women than it is in men, ibid. Brandy Shops, the qualifications required to keep them, . Breeding, good, a definition of it, .
A discourse on it, ibid. to . Brewing and baking luxurious inventions, . Britain, Great, wants ignorance, , . Brutes, have privileges and instincts which men have not, . Bustle, the, to be made in the world to procure a scarlet or crimson cloth, . Cardinals, the most valuable accomplishments among, , . Care, what ought to employ our first, . Carthaginians. Their abominable worship, . Castrati. See Eunuchs. Castration, the effects of it upon the voice, . Cat-calls, . Cato, his character, .
His self-denial. . Centaurs, sphinxes, and dragons. Their origin, . Chance. What it is, , . Chancellor, the Lord, of Great Britain. What he should be, .
His post requires greater qualifications than any other, . Charity. A definition of it, .
Is often counterfeited by our passions, , , .
The compliments paid to all the appearances of charity, ibid.
Abuses of charity, , , .
Often counterfeited, .
The world hates those who detect the counterfeits, ibid.
An instance of an unjust pretence to charity, ibid. Charity children have no opportunity to learn good manners, .
Why they are pleasing to the eye, . Charity schools are admired to distraction, .
What is said in behalf of them, ibid.
Not capable to prevent thefts and robberies, ibid.
The cause of our fondness for those schools, .
A description of the first rise and subsequent steps that are made to erect a charity school, ibid. to .
The joy they give, .
They are an inexhaustible fund for tittle-tattle, ib. and .
The charms of them to the multitude, .
The different views partymen have in wishing well to them, , .
More labour and eloquence are laid out upon them than on any other duty, ib.
The comfort the wicked find in liking them, .
The true motives of the bustle made about them, ibid.
Arguments against charity schools, showing them to be destructive to the public, to .
A perpetual nursery for them, . Chastity, the worlds opinion about it, . Children. What makes them mannerly, .
What all delight in, .
Labour the proper province of the children of the poor, .
What they are indebted for to parents, .
Whether people marry with design of having them, .
The children of savages when sociable, . Children of the poor, one of the greatest blessings, .
What their lot always will be, , . Christianity, the essentials of, never to be talked of among the beau monde, . Church, going to it of the utmost necessity to the poor, . Cicero, his character, .
He imitated Plato, . Cid. The six famous lines of it censured, . Cities, great flourishing, the work of Providence, .
What is requisite to govern them, ibid, and . Claim, the unjust, men lay to every thing that is laudable, , . Classes. The two classes men are divided into, . Cleomenes begs of Horatio to accept of the Fable of the Bees, and read it, .
Is denied, ibid.
Thinking Horatio displeased, breaks off the discourse, , .
But Horatio owning himself in the wrong, is persuaded to go on, .
Shows himself not uncharitable or censorious, .
Gives reasons why well accomplished persons may be ignorant of the principles they act from, .
Explores duelling; demonstrates the laws of honour to be clashing with the laws of God, from to .
Shows the false pretences that are made to virtue, from to .
His maxim of inquiring into the rise of arts and inventions, .
Gives his conjectures concerning the origin of politeness, from to .
Shows the inconsistency of the affectionate scheme with the world as it is, from to .
Proves his assertions concerning the nature of man, from the tendency of all laws, especially the ten commandments, from to .
Gives his opinion concerning the different designs Lord Shaftsbury and his friend have wrote with, .
His character, , &c.
His censuring of his own actions, .
His aversion to contempt, . Clergy, pride concealed them, .
Their value for the comforts of life, .
A deceitful plea of theirs, .
What brings them into contempt, ibid.
The same illustrated by example, .
The clergy, when poor, expose themselves by matrimony, . Clergyman, the social, .
Why many clergymen are angry with the Fable of the Bees, . Clothes, the use of them, . Combabus, . Comforts of life, various as the conditions of men vary, . Commandments, the ten, are a strong proof of the principle of selfishness and instinct of sovereignty in human nature, .
All of them have their political uses, .
What is implied in the ninth commandment, .
What may be inferred from the sixth, ibid.
The two first point at our natural blindness and ignorance of the true Deity, .
The purport of the third discussed, .
The fifth explained, , .
The usefulness of the fourth in worldly affairs, . Company, good, .
The love of it not the cause of man’s sociableness, .
Solitude to be preferred to some company, .
Love of company no virtue, ibid.
The reason why man loves it, . Compassion. A story of a child to raise compassion, .
See Pity. Compliments, which are Gothic, .
Not begun among equals, ibid.
Lose their dignity, . Conclaves, a character of, . Conclusion of the Remarks, to 154. Confidence reposed in prime ministers, , . Confucius, . Conjectures on the origin of politeness, , .
On the first motives that could make savages associates, , .
This conjecture not clashing with any of the Divine attributes, , . Consciousness, what it consists in, . Constitution of the body. What it consists in, . Constitution, the, .
Wisdom of that of Great Britain, ibid. and .
Is chiefly to be taken care of in all countries, . Constructions, the kind, of the beau monde, , .
Are hurtful to the practice of Christianity, . Content, the bane of industry, , , , .
A definition of content, .
Is a precarious virtue, ibid.
An instance of it, .
Content more opposite to industry than laziness, ibid. Contracts never lasting among savages, . Conversation between a mercer and a lady his customer, to . Corneille cited, .
Defended, . Covetousness. What people are not taxed with it by the beau monde, . Counsellor, the social, . Courage, natural, .
Proceeds from anger, .
Spurious and artificial courage, .
Natural courage, good for nothing in war, .
Stratagems to create courage, , , .
May be procured by discipline, .
How pride is mistaken for courage, .
A definition of artificial courage, .
Why it does not appear in dangers where honour is not concerned, . Courtiers, their business, . Courts of Princes. What procures men admittance there, . Creatures, how some to be talked of that never had any existence, . Creatures, living, compared to the engine that raises water by fire, .
The production of their numbers in every species proportioned to the consumption of them, .
This is very conspicuous in whales, ibid. Cruelty, not greater in a wolf that eats a man, than it is in a man who eats a chicken, . Custom, the force of it, . Customers, the different ways of drawing them, . Danger, the, from wild beasts, the first inducements to make savages associate, , .
The effects of it upon man’s fear, ibid. .
Objections to this conjecture, , , , , , , .
This danger is what our species will never be entirely exempt from upon earth, . Death, not always the thing we fear most, .
Interest of money after death, .
It is death and not the manner of dying, to which our aversion is universal, , . Debate, a, about pride, and what sort of people are most affected with it, , .
About money to servants, , .
About the principles a fine gentleman may act from, , .
About which it is that inclines men most to be religious, fear, or gratitude, from to .
About the first step to society, , . Decencies and conveniencies have a large signification, . Deism, modern, what has increased it in this kingdom, .
No greater tie than atheism, ibid. Deity, notions worthy of the, , , , , , .
The same, unworthy, , , , . Descartes, his opinion refuted, . Description, a, of the pleasures of the voluptuous, , .
Of the killing of a bullock, . Dialogues, the reputation that has been gained by writing them, .
Why they are in disrepute, ibid. Dice, spoken to illustrate what chance is, . Discourse, a, on the social virtues according to Lord Shaftsbury, from to .
On duelling, natural and artificial courage, from to .
On the different effects the same passions have on men of different tempers, from to .
On pride, and the various effects and symptoms of it, from to .
On the origin of politeness, , to .
On compliments, tokens of respect, laughing, &c. from to .
On the faculty of thinking, from to .
On the sociableness of man, from to .
On the first motive that could make savages associate, from to .
On the second step to society, and the necessity of written laws, from to .
On language, from to .
On diverse subjects relating to our nature and the origin of things, from to .
On government, capacities, and the motives of study, on ministers, partiality, and the power of money, to the end. Distiller, a, what is required to make an eminent one, . Divines, what it is we are obliged to for the great numbers of them, . Docility depends upon the pliableness of the parts, .
Lost if neglected in youth, .
The superior docility in man, in a great measure owing to his remaining young longer than other creatures, . Dominion, the desire of, all men are born with it, .
Seen in the claim of parents to their children, ibid. Dress, the only thing by which men are judged of at courts, . Drunkenness, how it is judged of, . Dryades and Hama-Dryades, . Duelling, proceeds not from false notions of honour, .
The benefit of it to society, .
The custom of it not to be abolished, ibid.
How to prevent it, ibid.
Men of honour would be laughed at if they scrupled it, because it is a sin, .
What considerations are slighted for it, . Duellists, their concern chiefly owing to their struggles between the fear of shame and the fear of death, .
Seem to act by enchantment, . Dutch, the, not frugal from principle, .
Their calamities under Philip II. of Spain, ibid.
Their other disadvantages, .
How they differ from us, ibid.
Their profuseness, .
Their policy in encouraging the extravagancies of sailors, ibid. Dying, the means of, are all equally the contrivance of nature, .
It is as much requisite to die as to be born, ibid.
Several ways of dying are necessary, . Earth, the, our species would have overstocked it, if there never had been war, . Education, observations concerning it, , .
(a refined) teaches no humility, .
The most effectual means to succeed in the education of children, .
Teaches to conceal, and not to conquer the passions, , .
The best proof for the necessity of a good education, .
People may be miserable only for want of education, .
The necessity of a Christian education, , .
A gentleman’s education destructive to Christian humility, . Effendi, Mahomet, died for atheism, . Eggs in fish not impregnated by the male as in other oviparous animals, .
The use of this, ibid. Elements, the, are all our enemies, . Emulation, mankind divided into two classes for emulations sake, .
The emulation of school-boys not derived from virtue, . Englishmen do not covet Spartan greatness, . Enthusiasm, the force of it, . Envy, .
A definition of it, ibid.
The various symptoms of it, , .
Envy conspicuous in wild beasts, .
An argument to show that envy is rivetted in our nature, ibid.
The use of envy in painters, .
Envy has reformed more bad husbands than preaching, ibid.
An instance of envy, .
Nobody is without, ibid.
Cato’s envy to CÆsar, .
Envy accounted for, . Epicurus. The pleas and apologies of Epicurus, , .
The doctrine of Epicurus exploded, , . Essay, an, on charity and charity schools, . Evil, both moral and natural the solid basis of society, .
The cause of it more inquired into than that of good, . Eunuchs overvalued, , .
No part of the creation, ibid. Examination of one’s self, , , , . Exchequer, the wise regulations of it, .
In all the business belonging to it, the constitution does nine parts in ten, ibid. Exclaim, why all nations cry Oh! when they exclaim, . Experience of greater use in procuring good laws than genius, . Fable, the, or what is supposed to have occasioned the first dialogue, , . Fable of the Bees, the first part of the, quoted, , , ,
spoke against, , , , ,
defended, , .—
What view the book ought to be seen in, .
The treatment it has had illustrated by a simile, .
Vice is no more encouraged in it than robbing is in the Beggar’s Opera, . Fall, the, of man not predestinated, . Fame, what the thirst after fame consists in, . Fathers of the church delighted in acclamations whilst they are preaching, . Fear, not to be conquered by reason, .
A definition of fear, ibid.
The necessity of fear in the society, .
Fear of death, when the strongest, .
Fear the only thing man brings into the world with him towards religion, .
The Epicurean axiom that fear made the gods exploded, ibid. and . Fees, the power of them upon lawyers and physicians, . Fish, a visible provision made by nature for their extraordinary numbers, .
The vast consumption of them, , . Flatterers of our species. Why they confound what is acquired with what is natural, . Flattery, no man proof against it, , .
The various arts of it, , .
The beginning of it in society, .
Becomes less barefaced as politeness increases, . Flesh of animals, to eat it is a cruel piece of luxury, , . Flies, . Folly of infants, . Fools, learned, where to be met with, . Footmen, the faults they are generally guilty of in England, , , .
What it is that spoils them, .
A society of them, . Frailties palmed upon the world for virtues, . Friendship, never lasting without discontent on both sides, . Fright, a, pride of no use in it, .
The effects it had upon us, ibid. Frowning described, . Frugality, a definition of it, .
What frugality will always depend upon, .
What his made the Dutch frugal, .
A discourse on frugality, ibid. to .—
The impossibility of forcing people to be frugal without necessity, .
The frugality of the Spartans, .
The influence of it on trade, ibid.
When it is no virtue, , . Fulvia, the reason why no character is given of her, . Gamesters, the reason why they conceal their gettings before the losers, to . Gassendus is the example the author has followed in his dialogues, . Genius, many things are ascribed to genius and penetration that are owing to time and experience, .
Has the least share in making laws, . Gentleman, a fine, drawn, and the picture approved of by Horatio, from to .
Why there are not many such, from to . Gestures made from the same motive in infants and orators, .
The abuse of them, .
To make use of them more natural than to speak without, ibid. Gift, a great, of a late physician examined into, to . Glory, the love of, in men of resolution and perseverance, may, without other help, produce all the accomplishments men can be possessed of, , , .
A trial to know whether a fine gentleman acts from principles of virtue and religion, or from vain glory, , .
When only the love of glory can be commendable, .
The eager pursuit of worldly glory inconsistent with Christianity, . Golden age not fit for society, , . Governing. Nothing requires greater knowledge than the art of it, , .
Is built on the knowledge of human nature, . Government, the rise of it, .
What is the best form of it, is yet undecided, .
Is in bees the work of nature, , .
None can subsist without laws, .
What the best forms of it are subject to, . Government, the, of a large city. What sort of wisdom it requires, .
Compared to the knitting frames, .
To a musical clock, ibid.
Once put into good order it may go right, though there should not be a wise man in it, . Governor, the charms of the word to mean people, .
Governors of charity schools, ibid.
The praises given them, . Grammar schools, how to be managed, . Gratitude, man’s, examined into, as the cause of Divine worship, , , . Grumbling. See Hive. Happiness on earth like the philosopher’s stone, . Hardships are not such when men are used to them, . Hats, the various modes of them, . Heroes, their great views, .
What they differ in from coward is corporeal, .
Of antiquity, chiefly famed for subduing wild beasts, . Hive, Grumbling Hive, .
Their glorious condition, ibid. .
Their knavery, . to .
Their murmurings, .
Jupiter makes them honest, ibid.
Their conversion and the effects of it upon trade, to .
The moral, . Honesty, the effects of it on trade, , , , , .
Where the most of it is to be found, , . Honour, the genuine signification of it, .
The figurative sense of it, .
Rubs of honour, ibid. .
Principles of honour, how raised, .
The standard of honour, .
A new standard of it, ibid.
The latter much easier than the first, ibid.
Honour opposite to religion, .
The great allowances of honour, ibid.
Why there are so many men of real honour, ibid.
The principles of it extolled, , , .
The same condemned, ibid.
Is a chimerical tyrant, .
Is the result of pride, but the same cause produces not always the same effect, .
Is acquired, and therefore no passion belonging to any one’s nature, .
Is not compatible with the Christian religion, .
In women more difficult to be preserved than in men, .
Is not founded upon any principle of virtue or religion, ibid.
The signification of the word whimsical, ibid. Hope, a definition of it, .
The absurdity of the words certain hope, . Horatio refuses to accept of the Fable of the Bees, .
Is taxed with maintaining the theory of what he cannot prove to be practicable, ibid.
Owns that the discourse of Cleomenes had made an impression on him, .
Mistakes Cleomenes and grows angry, , .
Interrupts him, .
Finds fault again with Cleomenes wrongfully, and seems displeased, .
Sees his error, begs pardon, and desires Cleomenes to go on, .
Takes upon him to be the fine gentleman’s advocate, .
Labours hard to justify the necessity of duelling, , , .
—Shows the intolerable consequences of affronts not resented, , .
Accepts of the Fable of the Bees, .
Why he dislikes it, .
Having considered on the origin of politeness, pays a visit to Cleomenes, .
Invites him to dinner, .
Cannot reconcile the account of savages with the Bible, .
Proposes mutual affection as a means to make men associate, .
Allows of the conjecture about the first step towards society, .
Comes into the sentiments of Cleomenes, .
His character, , . Horses, not tamed by nature, .
What is called vicious in them, . Hospitals, the necessity of them, .
A caution against the increase of them, ibid. . Humility, Christian, no virtue more scarce, . Hunger and lust the great motives that stir up courage in brutes, , .
The influence these appetites have upon ourselves, , . Hutcheson, Mr., a favour asked him, . Hypocrisy, to deceive by counterfeiting, .
Of some divines, .
Four are never guilty of it, .
Detected in the pretences to content in poverty, , .
When owned, . Idiots, not affected with pride, .
Made by loss of memory, . Idolatry, all the extravagancies of it pointed out in the second commandment, .
Of the Mexicans, . Ignorance, a necessary ingredient in the mixture of society, , .
Reasons for it, ibid.
Punishments the author has to fear for recommending ignorance, , .
Great Britain wants it to be happy, .
Of the true Deity is the cause of superstition, . Imaginary, rewards for self-denial, . Immortality, the, of the soul, a doctrine older than Christianity, .
Why so generally received, ibid. Indolence not to be confounded with laziness, . Indolent easy man, an, the difference between him and an active stirring man in the same circumstances, to . Industry, differs from diligence, . Infants, the management of them, .
Why they ought to be talked to, , .
Imagine every thing to think and feel, .
This folly humoured in them, .
Their crying given them to move pity, .
Vent their anger by instinct, . Innes, the Rev. Dr. quoted, .
His sentiments on charity, . Innocence, state of, described, .
Prejudicial to society, . Insects, would overrun the earth in two years time if none were destroyed, . Interest teaches men the use of their limbs, .
Savages to love and infants to suck, neither of them thinking on the design of nature, .
All men are born with an instinct of sovereignty, , . Invention, of ships, , .
What sort of people are best at invention, .
No stability in the works of human invention, . Invisible Cause, an, how savages come to fear it, .
The perplexity it gives to men ignorant of the true Deity, , .
The wildest parents would communicate the fear of it to their children, .
The consequence of different opinions about it, , . Jealousy, a compound, .
No jealousy without love, . Jews, knew truths which the politest nations were ignorant of, 1500 years after, . Judges, who are fit to be, . Judgment, sound, what it consists in, .
Women are as capable of acquiring it as men, ibid. . Justice, and Injustice. What notions a savage of the first class would have of it, . Justice, the administration of it impracticable without written laws, . Juvenal, quoted on superstition, . Knowledge, does not make men religious, , , , .
Knowledge beyond their labour is prejudicial to the poor, , .
Neither knowledge nor politeness belong to a man’s nature, . Knowing, À priori, belongs to God only, . King, a, his happiness compared to that of a peasant, , . Labour, the usefulness of dividing and subdividing it, . Lampredius, quoted, . Languages, that of the eyes is understood by the whole species, .
Is too significant, .
How language might come into the world from two savages, ibid.
Signs and gestures would not cease after the invention of speech, .
A conjecture on the strength and beauty of the English language, .
The reason of it, ibid. .
Whether French or English be more fit to persuade in, .
The same things are not beautiful in both languages, ibid.
The intention of opprobrious language, .
Is an equivalent for fighting, . Latin, not necessary to write and spell English, .
To whom it is prejudicial, . Laughter, conjectures on the rationale of that action, , . Laws, sumptuary, useless to opulent kingdoms, .
All laws point at some defect or frailty belonging to human nature, , .
The necessity of written laws, .
The Israelites had laws before they knew Moses, .
What the wisest of human laws owing to, .
Laws in all countries restrains the usurpation of parents, .
Laws of honour are pretended to be superior to all other, .
Are clashing with the laws of God, .
Whether there are false laws of honour, . Lawgivers, what they have chiefly to consider,454. Lawyers, when fit to be judges, . Laziness, a definition of it, .
People often call others lazy, because they are so themselves, ibid.
A story of a porter wrongfully suspected of laziness, , . Leaping, cunning displayed in it, . Learned fools, where to be met with, . Learning, methods to promote and increase it, to .
How all sorts of it are kept up, and looked into in flourishing nations, , .
How the most useful parts of it may be neglected for the most trifling, .
An instance of it, ibid. Letters, the invention of them, the third step to society, . Lies concerning the Invisible Cause, . Life in creatures. The analogy between it and what is performed by engines that raise water by the help of fire, . Lion, the, described, .
What designed for by nature in Paradise, .
Not made to be always in Paradise, ibid.
The product of hot countries, . Linen, the invention of it, the result of deep thought, . Literature, most parents that are able, bring up their sons to it, . Lives, we are to judge of men from their lives, and not from their sentiments, . Love to their species, is not more in men than in other creatures, . Love has two significations, .
The difference between love and lust, .
No jealousy without love, .
Whether the end of it is the preservation of the species, .
Is little to be depended upon among the ill-bred vulgar, . Lovers, Platonic may find out the origin of that passion, . Loudness, a help to language, , . Lucian, . Lucre, a cordial in a literal sense, . Lucretia, .
The motive she acted from, ibid. .
Valued her glory above her virtue, ibid. Lust, concealed from ourselves by education, . Luxury, the definition of it, .
The usefulness of it discussed, .
Luxury promoted by the legislature, .
Maxims to prevent the mischiefs to be feared from luxury, , .
Arguments for luxury, , , .
Every thing is luxury in one sense, , .
Instances of luxury in the poor, , . Magistrates, not the less obeyed for despising pomp and luxury, . Males, more, than females born of our species, . Man naturally loves praise and hates contempt, .
The manner in which savage man was broke, .
A dialogue between a man and a lion, .
Man has no real value for his species, .
Man a fearful animal, .
Is ever forced to please himself, .
Always the same in his nature, , .
Man in the state of nature, , .
Every man likes himself better than he can like any other. .
No man can wish to be entirely another, ibid.
Always seeks after happiness, .
Always endeavours to meliorate his condition, .
Has no fondness for his species beyond other animals, .
Has a prerogative above most animals in point of time, ibid.
Remains young longer than any other creature, .
May lose his sociableness, ibid.
There can be no civilized man before there is civil society, ibid.
Man is born with a desire after government, and no capacity for it, .
Claims every thing he is concerned in, , .
Is more inquisitive into the cause of evil than he is into that of good, .
Is born with a desire of superiority, .
Has been more mischievous to his species than wild beasts have, .
What gives us an insight into the nature of man, .
Is not naturally inclined to do as he would be done by, .
Whether he is born with an inclination to forswear himself, .
Thinks nothing so much his own as what he has from nature, .
The higher his quality is, the more necessitous he is, .
Why he can give more ample demonstrations of his love than other creatures, .
Could not have existed without a miracle, . Mankind divided into two classes, .
Cannot endure truths that are mortifying, . Manners, the comedy of manners, .
The doctrine of good manners has many lessons against the outward appearance of pride, but none against the passion itself, .
What good manners consist in, .
Their beginning in society, , .
Have nothing to do with virtue or religion, ibid.
See Breeding. Marlborough, the Duke of, opposite opinions concerning him, , .
Was an extraordinary genius, ibid. A Latin epitaph, upon him, .
The same in English, . Masters of charity schools, .
The number of those that wish to be masters and mistresses of them, . Mathematics, of no use in the curative part of physic, . Maxims to render people good and virtuous, , , , .
Others to aggrandize a nation, .
To make the poor serviceable, , , to .
To outsell our neighbour, .
The maxims advanced not injurious to the poor, , . Memory, the total loss of it makes an idiot, . Men, of very good sense may be ignorant of their own frailties, .
All men are partial judges of themselves, .
All bad that are not taught to be good, . Merchants, a story of two that both took advantage of their intelligence, . Mexicans, their idolatry, . Milton, quoted, . Minister, the prime, no such officer belonging to our constitution, .
Has opportunities of knowing more than any other man, .
The stratagems played against him, .
Needs not to be a consummate statesman, .
What capacities he ought to be of, ibid. .
Prime ministers not often worse than their antagonists, . Miracles, what they are, .
Our origin inexplicable without them, , , , . Mistress, a, the difficulty of parting with her while we love, . Mobs, not more wicked than the beau monde, , .
In them pride is often the cause of cruelty, . Modesty, whence derived, .
Has three different acceptations, .
The difference between men and women as to modesty, , .
The cause of it, .
The great use of it to the civil society, . Money, the chief use of it, , .
Too much of it may undo a nation, ibid.
Is of no intrinsic worth, .
The money in different ways given to the poor, ill spent, , .
Money is the root of all evil, .
The necessity of it, in a large nation, ibid. . Money, will always be the standard of worth upon earth, ibid.
The invention of it adapted to human nature beyond all others, .
Nothing is so universally charming as it, ibid.
Works mechanically on the spirits, . Money to Servants. A short debate about it, , . Montaigne, a saying of his, . Moral, the, of the Grumbling Hive, . Morals not always the same, . Moralists, their artifices to civilize mankind, , . Morality broached for the ease of government, . Moreri censured, . Moses vindicated, , , , , , . Mothers have but little love for their children when they are born, .
Mothers and sisters in the east married their sons and brothers, . Motives. The same may produce different effects, .
To study and acquire learning, , , .
They are what actions ought to be judged by only, . Music houses at Amsterdam described, , . Nations may be ruined by too much money, 114. The great art to make nations happy, . What the wealth of nations consists in, , . Why all nations cry Oh! when they exclaim, . In large flourishing nations, no sorts of learning will be neglected, , . Natural. Many things are called so, that are the product of art, .
How we may imitate the countenance of a natural fool, .
Why it is displeasing to have what is natural distinguished from what is acquired, , . Nature not to be followed by great masters in painting, .
Great difference between the works of art, and those of nature, , .
Nature makes no trials or essays, .
What she has contributed to all the works of art, .
She forces several things upon us mechanically, .
Her great wisdom in giving pride to man, .
All creatures are under her perpetual tutelage, .
And have their appetites of her as well as their food, ibid. .
Nature seems to have been more solicitous for the destruction, than she has been for the preservation of individuals, .
Has made an extraordinary provision in fish to preserve their species, .
Her impartiality, .
The usefulness of exposing the deformity of untaught nature, .
She has charged every individual with the care of itself, . Nature, human, is always the same, .
The complaints that are made against it are likewise the same every where, .
The usefulness of it is visible in the dialogue, , . Navigation. The blessings and calamities of the society on account of it, . Necessaries of life. The multiplicity of them, , , . Noah, . An objection stated concerning his descendants, ibid. . Noise made to a man’s honour is never shocking to him, .
Of servants, why displeasing, . Nola, Jordanus Bruno of, died for atheism, . Oaths. What is requisite to make them useful in society, , . Obedience, human, owing to parents, . Objections against the necessity of pride answered, , .
An objection to the manner of managing the dialogues, . Obstacles to happiness we meet with, . Operas extravagantly commended, , , &c.
Compared to bear gardens, . Opera, Beggars, injuriously censured, . Opinions. The absurdity of them in sacred matters, .
How people of the same kingdom differ in opinion about their chiefs, . Origin of moral virtue, .
Of courage and honour, .
Of politeness, to .
Of society, , , .
Of all things, , .
The most probable account of our origin, . Ornaments bespeak the value we have for the thing adorned, .
What makes men unwilling to have them seen separately, ibid. Ostracism, . A definition of it, ibid. Pain limited in this life, . Painters blamed for being too natural, . Painting. A discourse concerning it, and the judges of it, to .
How the people of the grand gout judge of it, . Parable, a, to . Paradise. The state of it miraculous, , , . Parents. The unreasonableness of them, , .
Compared to inanimate utensils, , .
Why to be honoured, .
The benefit we receive from them, ibid. Partiality is a general frailty, . Passion. What it is to play that of pride against itself, , .
How to account for the passions, . Personages introduced in dialogues. The danger there is in imitating the ancients in the choice of them, .
Caution of the moderns concerning them, ibid.
When they are displeasing, ibid.
It is best to know something of them before hand, . Philalethes, an invincible champion, . Physician, a late, his character, .
The motives of his last will, .
The social, .
Physicians are ignorant of the constituent parts of things, . Physic, mathematics of no use in it, . Pity. A discourse concerning it, .
No virtue, and why, .
Nobody without, .
A definition of it, .
The force of pity, ibid.
Pity more conspicuous than any pretended virtue, . Places of honour and trust.
What persons they ought to be filled with, . Plagues. The fatality of them, . Plato. His great capacity in writing dialogues, . Pleas, deceitful, of great men, , , .
And excuses of worldly men, , . Pleasures, real, .
Pleasures of the voluptuous, ibid. .
Of the Stoics, .
The more men differ in condition, the less they can judge of each other’s pleasures, . Politeness demands hypocrisy, , .
Exposed, , , and .
The use of it, , .
The seeds of it lodged in self-love and self-liking, .
How it is produced from pride, .
A philosophical reason for it, ibid. Polite, a, preacher. What he is to avoid, , . Politics. The foundation of them, .
What is owing to bad politics, is charged to luxury, . Politicians play out passions against one another , .
The chief business of a politician, . Polygamy, not unnatural, . Poor, the, would never work if they did not want, .
The plenty of provisions depends on the cheapness of their labour, , .
Qualifications required in the labouring poor, ibid. .
What they ought not to grumble at, .
Great numbers of poor are wanting, .
The mischiefs arising from their not being well managed, .
Not to be suffered to stay from church on Sundays, .
The petty reverence that is paid to the poor, injurious, .
Which sort of them are most useful to others, and happy in themselves, and which are the reverse, .
The consequences of forcing education upon their children, ibid., . Popes. What is chiefly minded in the choice of them, . Poverty, voluntary, brings nobody into contempt, .
An instance of that truth, . Very scarce, .
The only man in antiquity that can be said to have embraced it, ibid.
The greatest hardship in poverty, . Praise, is the reward all heroes have in view, . Predestination, an inexplicable mystery, , . Preferment. What men are most like to get it, . Pretences, false, of great men concerning pleasure, . Pride, .
What animals show the most of it, .
The pride of men of sense, .
A definition of pride, .
The apologies of proud men, and the falsities of them detected, ibid. .
Various symptoms of pride, , .
How it is encouraged in military men, .
The benefit we receive from the pride of great men, .
The power of pride, , .
No precepts against it in a refined education, .
Increases in proportion with the sense of shame, .
What is meant by playing the passion of pride against itself, ibid.
Is able to blind the understanding in men of sense, ibid., .
In the cause of honour, .
Pride is most enjoyed when it is well led, .
Why more predominant in some than in others, .
Whether women have a greater share of it than men, .
Why more encouraged in women, ibid.
The natural and artificial symptoms of it, , .
Why the artificials are more excusable, .
In whom the passion is most troublesome, ibid.
To whom it is most easy to stifle it, ibid.
In what creatures it is most conspicuous, .
The disguises of it, .
Who will learn to conceal it soonest, .
Is our most dangerous enemy, . Principle. A man of honour, and one that has none, may act from the same principle, .
Reasons why the principle of self-esteem is to be reckoned among the passions, ibid., .
Honour not built upon any principle either of religion or virtue, .
Principles most men act from, , . Prodigality, .
The use of it to the society, ibid. . Proposal, a, of a reverend divine for an human sacrifice to complete the solemnity of a birth day, . Providence saved our species from being destroyed by wild beasts, , .
A definition of it, .
The raising of cities and nations the work of Providence, . Provisions, how to procure plenty of them, , , . Prudence, . Public spirit has left the nation, .
The symptoms of the want of it, ibid, .
An exhortation to retrieve it, . Pulchrum, the, Honestum of the ancients, a chimera, . Punch, the society compared to a bowl of punch, . Purposes. Fire and water are made for many that are very different from one another, . Qualifications. The most valuable in the beginning of society would be strength, agility, and courage, . Qualities, the hateful, of women more beneficial to trade than their virtues, .
The good qualities of man do not make him sociable, .
Which are the heft for the society, . Quarrels, how to prevent them, .
The cause of them on account of religion, .
Occasioned by the word predestination, .
A quarrel between two learned divines, . Question, which has done the most mischief; . Quixote, Don, the last man of ancient honour upon record, . Reading and writing, why hurtful to the poor, .
Never to be taught for nothing, .
Not necessary to make good Christians, . Reality of pleasures discussed, , . Reason, a, why few people understand themselves, .
Why our neighbours outdo us at foreign markets, , . Reason is acquired, .
The art of reasoning not brought to perfection in many ages, .
The stress men lay upon their reason is hurtful to faith, , . Reformation, the, of less moment to trade than hooped petticoats, . Religion not the cause of virtue, .
Of the heathens absurd, .
Where there is the least of it, , .
Things pass for religion that are foreign to it, .
The Christian, the only solid principle, , .
Came into the world by miracle, .
What was not revealed is not worthy to be called religion, .
The first propensity towards religion, not from gratitude in savages, . Religious houses examined, , . Reneau, Monsieur, accounts mechanically for the sailing and working of ships, . Respect, whether better shown by silence or by making a noise, . Revenge, what it shows in our nature, . Reverence, the ingredients of it, .
Illustrated from the decalogue, .
The weight of it to procure obedience, . Riches, the contempt of them very scarce, .
Lavishness no sign of it, ibid. Ridicule, the Lord Shaftsbury’s opinion concerning it, . Right, the, which parents claim to their children is unreasonable, , , . Right and wrong, the notions of it are acquired, , , . Rogues, not made for want of reading and writing, .
Are oftener very cunning than ignorant, . Roman Catholics are not subjects to be relied upon, but in the dominions of his holiness, . Rome, new, is obliged to old Rome, .
Rome, the court of the greatest academy of refined politics, .
Has little regard for religion; or piety, ibid. Rule, a, to know what is natural from what is acquired, . Russia wants knowledge, . Sabbath, the, the usefulness of it in worldly affairs, . Savages of the first class are not to be made sociable when grown up, .
It would require many years to make a polite nation from savages, ibid.
The descendants of civilized men may degenerate into savages, , .
There are savages in many parts of the world, .
Savages do all the same things, .
Those of the first class could have, no language, .
nor imagine they wanted it, ibid.
Are incapable of learning any when full grown, ibid. Savage, a, of the first class of wildness would take every thing to be is own, .
Be incapable of governing his offspring, .
Would create reverence in his child, .
Would want conduct, .
Could only worship an invisible cause out of fear, .
Could have no notions of right or wrong, .
Propagates his species by instinct, .
Contributes nothing to the existence of his children as a voluntary agent, .
The children of his bringing up would be all fit for society, . Scarlet or crimson cloth, the bustle to be made in the world to procure it, , . Scheme, the, of deformity, the system of the Fable of the Bees, so called by Horatio, , . Scheme, the, or plan of the globe, requires the destruction as well as generation of animals, .
Mutual affection to our species would have been definitive to it, . Scolding, and calling names, bespeaks some degree of politeness, .
The practice of it could not have been introduced without self-denial at first, . Sea, the, blessings and calamities we receive from it, to . Search, a, into the nature of society, , to . Security of the nation.
What a great part of it conflicts in, . Self-liking different from self-love, .
Given by nature for self-preservation, ib.
The effect it has upon creatures, ibid. and .
Is the cause of pride, .
What creatures do not show it, ibid.
What benefit creatures receive from self-liking, .
Is the cause of many evils, ibid.
Encomiums upon it, .
Suicide impracticable while self-liking lasts, ibid. Selfishness, the, of human nature, visible in the ten commandments, , . Self-love, the cause of suicide, .
Hates to see what is acquired separated from what is natural, , . Self-denial, a glorious instance of it, . Seneca, his summum bonum, . Servants, the scarcity of them occasioned by charity schools, and the mischief it produces, , , .
Their encroachments on masters, , . Services, reciprocal, are what society consists in, .
Are impracticable without money, . Shaftsbury, Lord, his system contrary to the author’s, .
Refuted by his own character, .
Remarks upon him for jesting with revealed religion, , .
For holding joke and banter to be the best and surest touchstone to try the worth of things by, .
For pretending to try the scriptures by that test, ibid.
Was the first who held that virtue required no self-denial, .
Encomiums on him, , . Shame, a definition of it, .
What makes us ashamed of the faults of others, .
The symptoms of it, .
The usefulness of it to make us sociable, to .
Its real passion in our nature, .
The struggle between the fear of it and that of death, is the cause of the great concern of men of honour, in the affair of duelling, , .
The same fear of shame that may produce the most worthy actions, may be the cause of the most heinous crimes, . Shame, the sense of, the use that is made of it in the education of children, .
Is not to be augmented without increasing pride, ibid. Ships are the contrivance of many ages,361.
Who has given the rationale of working and steering them, , . Simile, a, to illustrate the treatment that has been given to the Fable of the Bees, , . Sighing described, . Signs and gestures, the significancy of them, , .
Confirm words, .
Would not be left off after the invention of speech, ibid.
Added to words are more persuading than speech alone, ibid. Sociable, man not so from his good qualities, , to .
What it is that makes us sociable, ibid. Sociableness, the love of our species not the cause of it, , .
Erroneous opinions about it, , .
Reasons commonly given for man’s sociableness, ibid.
Great part of man’s sociableness is lost if neglected in his youth .
What it consists in, , , .
The principle of it is the work of Providence, .
Mutual commerce is to man’s sociableness what fermentation is to the vinosity of wine, .
Sociableness in a great measure owing to parents, . Social System, the manner of it in judging of state-ministers and politicians, .
Of the piety of princes, .
Of foreign wars, ibid. .
Of luxury, ibid. Social virtue, according to the system of Lord Shaftsbury, discovered in a poor woman, who binds her son apprentice to a chimney-sweeper, .
On lawyers and physicians, .
On clergymen, ibid.
Is of little use unless the poor and meaner sort of people can be possessed of it, ibid. . Social toyman, the, described, . Society, no creatures without government less fit for it than man, , .
The society compared to a bowl of punch, .
The defects of it should be mended by the legislature, .
The nature of society, , .
Man’s love for society, examined into, to .
Cautions to be used in judging of man’s fitness for society, to .
Is of human invention, .
Man is made for it as grapes are for wine, ibid.
What man’s fitness in it consists in, .
Might arise from private families of savages, , .
Difficulties that would hinder savages from it, , .
The first step towards it would be their common danger from wild beasts, ibid.
The second step they would be in, would be the danger from one another, .
The third and last would be the invention of letters, .
Civil society is built upon the vanity of our wants, .
Temporal happiness is in all large societies, as well to be obtained without speech, as without money, . Soldiers, their paultry finery, .
The usage they receive, ibid. .
The alteration it makes on them when they turn soldiers, . Sommona-Codom, . Soul, the, compared to an architect, .
We know little of it that is not revealed to us, . Spartans, their frugality, . Species, the strength of our species unknown, .
The love to our species an idle pretence, , .
The high opinion we have of it hurtful, . Speech, though a characteristic of our species must be taught, .
Is not to be learned by people come to maturity, if till then they never had heard any, ibid, .
Want of it easily supplied by signs among two savages of the first class, .
Whether invented to make our thoughts known to one another, .
The first design of it was to persuade, ibid.
Lowness of speech a piece of good manners, .
The effect it has, . Spinosism, . Statesman, a consummate, what he ought to be, .
The scarcity of those who deserve the name, ibid. Steele, Sir Richard, his elegant flatteries of his species, . Stoics, their pleasures, .
Their arrogance and hypocrisy, ibid. Study, hard, whether men submit to it to serve their country or themselves, , . Suicide, never committed but to avoid something worse than death, . Sun, the, not made for this globe only, . Sunday, the most useful day in seven, .
What it is set apart for, ibid. Superiority of understanding in man, when most visibly useful, .
When disadvantageous, . Superstition, the objects of it, , .
What sort of people are most in danger of falling into it, . Superstitious men may blaspheme, . Symptoms of pride, natural and artificial, . System, the, that virtue requires no self-denial is dangerous, .
The reason, ibid. Tears, drawn from us from different causes. . Temperance, personal, makes no rulers slighted that have real power, , . Temple, Sir William, animadverted upon, .
A long quotation from him, ibid. . Tennis play, spoke of to illustrate what chance is, , . Thefts and robberies, the causes of them in great cities, , , . Theology, the most necessary faculty, . Thinking, where performed, .
What it consists in, , .
Immense difference of the faculty of it, .
Acquired by time and practice, . Thought operates upon the body, . Time, great difficulty in the division of it, .
The Sabbath a considerable half in it, ibid. Traders, none strictly honest, .
Why all take such pains to hide the prime cost of their goods, . Trades, a discourse on the various trades required, and the numbers in each, , . Traffic. What it is that promotes it, . Treasurer, the Lord, whom he obeys at peril, . Treasury, what the management of it requires, , . Trooper, why worse than a foot soldier, . Truth, impertinent in the sublime, .
Not to be minded in painting, . Vanini, a martyr for atheism, . Vanity may be owned by modest men, , . Vice, a definition of it, .
Has the same origin in man as it has in horses, .
Why the vices of particular men may be said to belong to the whole species, .
Vice is exposed in the Fable of the Bees, .
What it consists in, .
Why bare-faced vice is odious, . Views, the different, things may be set in, , . Universities, their policy, .
Ours are defective as to law and physic, , .
What universities should be, ibid. . Virgins, rules how to behave themselves, . Virtue, the origin of moral virtue, .
A definition of virtue, .
Not derived from religion, ibid.
What excited the ancients to heroic virtue, .
How virtue is made friends with vice, .
No virtue without self-denial, , .
Where to look for the virtues of great men, .
The reason why there are so few men of real virtue, .
Consists in action, .
In the sense of the beau monde imbibed at operas, .
What most of the beau monde mean by it, .
Real virtue not more to be found at operas than at bear gardens, .
A trial whether a fine gentleman acts from principles of virtue and religion, or from vain glory, , .
It requires self-denial, .
False pretences to virtue, , , .
No virtue more often counterfeited than charity, , .
Virtue is not the principle from which men attain to great accomplishments, , , .
Is the most valuable treasure, .
Yet seldom heartily embraced without reward, ibid.
No virtue more scarce than Christian humility, . Virtuous, when the epithets is improper,337.
Actions are called virtuous, that are manifestly the result of frailties, .
There are virtuous men; but not so many as is imagined, . Vitzliputzli. Idol of the Mexicans, . Unity, the, of a God, a mystery taught by Moses, . Understanding, man’s superior, has defeated the rage of wild beasts, .
When found most useful, .
Disadvantages in savages, . Wars. The cause of them, .
What would have been the consequence, if there never had been any, ibid., , . Watermen. Their manner of plying, . Waters, strong. Their bad effect on the poor, . Watches and clocks. The cause of the plenty, as well as exactness of them, . Weeping, a sign of joy as well as sorrow, .
A conjecture on the cause of it, ib. Whales. Their food, .
Why the economy in them is different from other fish, ib. Whores. The necessity there is for them, , , . Wild beasts. The danger from them the first step towards society, .
Always to be apprehended whilst societies are not well settled, ib. , , , .
Why our species was never totally extirpated by them, , .
The many mischiefs our species has sustained from them, , , , .
Have never been so fatal to any society of them as often plagues have, ib.
Have not been so calamitous to our species as man himself, .
Are part of the punishment after the fall, .
Range now in many places where once they were rooted out, ib.
Our species will never be wholly free from the danger of them, ib. Wild boars. Few large forests without, in temperate climates, .
Great renown has been obtained in killing them, ib. Will, the, is swayed by our passions, . Wisdom, the Divine, very remarkable in the contrivance of our machines, , .
In the different instincts of creatures, , , .
In the second commandment, .
Acts with original certainty, .
Becomes still more conspicuous as our knowledge increases, .
Wisdom must be antecedent to the things contrived by it, . Wives, more often put men on dangerous projects than mistresses, . Wolves, only dreadful in hard winters, . Woman, a savage, of the first class would not be able to guess at the cause of her pregnancy, . Women may be made wicked by modesty, .
Modest women promote the interest of prostitutes, .
The ill qualities of them beneficial to trade, to .
The artifices of married women, , .
Women are equal to men in the faculty of thinking, .
Excel them in the structure of the brain, . Work, the, yet to be done among us, . Works of art lame and imperfect, . Worship, Divine, has oftener been performed out of fear, than out of gratitude, , , . Wrongheads, who think vice encouraged, when they see it exposed, . Youth, a great part of man’s sociableness owing to the long continuances of it, . Zeuxis, .
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