Parents. The unreasonableness of them, 406, 421.
Compared to inanimate utensils, 423, 424.
Why to be honoured, 462.
The benefit we receive from them, ibid.

Partiality is a general frailty, 506.

Passion. What it is to play that of pride against itself, 315, 350.
How to account for the passions, 386.

Personages introduced in dialogues. The danger there is in imitating the ancients in the choice of them, 264.
Caution of the moderns concerning them, ibid.
When they are displeasing, ibid.
It is best to know something of them before hand, 266.

Philalethes, an invincible champion, 265.

Physician, a late, his character, 162.
The motives of his last will, 163.
The social, 292.
Physicians are ignorant of the constituent parts of things, 375.

Physic, mathematics of no use in it, 375.

Pity. A discourse concerning it, 157.
No virtue, and why, 21.
Nobody without, 157.
A definition of it, 156.
The force of pity, ibid.
Pity more conspicuous than any pretended virtue, 157.

Places of honour and trust.
What persons they ought to be filled with, 495.

Plagues. The fatality of them, 434.

Plato. His great capacity in writing dialogues, 265.

Pleas, deceitful, of great men, 92, 93, 94.
And excuses of worldly men, 270, 271.

Pleasures, real, 83.
Pleasures of the voluptuous, ibid. 84.
Of the Stoics, 85.
The more men differ in condition, the less they can judge of each other’s pleasures, 198.

Politeness demands hypocrisy, 32, 223.
Exposed, 332, 333, and 270.
The use of it, 351, 352.
The seeds of it lodged in self-love and self-liking, 355.
How it is produced from pride, 359.
A philosophical reason for it, ibid.

Polite, a, preacher. What he is to avoid, 266, 267.

Politics. The foundation of them, 16.
What is owing to bad politics, is charged to luxury, 60.

Politicians play out passions against one another 81, 123.
The chief business of a politician, 493.

Polygamy, not unnatural, 209.

Poor, the, would never work if they did not want, 113.
The plenty of provisions depends on the cheapness of their labour, 114, 178.
Qualifications required in the labouring poor, ibid. 179.
What they ought not to grumble at, 186.
Great numbers of poor are wanting, 201.
The mischiefs arising from their not being well managed, 188.
Not to be suffered to stay from church on Sundays, 193.
The petty reverence that is paid to the poor, injurious, 195.
Which sort of them are most useful to others, and happy in themselves, and which are the reverse, 515.
The consequences of forcing education upon their children, ibid., 516.

Popes. What is chiefly minded in the choice of them, 297.

Poverty, voluntary, brings nobody into contempt, 89.
An instance of that truth, 90. Very scarce, 341.
The only man in antiquity that can be said to have embraced it, ibid.
The greatest hardship in poverty, 343.

Praise, is the reward all heroes have in view, 20.

Predestination, an inexplicable mystery, 429, 441.

Preferment. What men are most like to get it, 511.

Pretences, false, of great men concerning pleasure, 95.

Pride, 5.
What animals show the most of it, 15.
The pride of men of sense, 38.
A definition of pride, 66.
The apologies of proud men, and the falsities of them detected, ibid. 67.
Various symptoms of pride, 30, 71.
How it is encouraged in military men, 129.
The benefit we receive from the pride of great men, 130.
The power of pride, 304, 305.
No precepts against it in a refined education, 306.
Increases in proportion with the sense of shame, 315.
What is meant by playing the passion of pride against itself, ibid.
Is able to blind the understanding in men of sense, ibid., 316.
In the cause of honour, 324.
Pride is most enjoyed when it is well led, 331.
Why more predominant in some than in others, 347.
Whether women have a greater share of it than men, 348.
Why more encouraged in women, ibid.
The natural and artificial symptoms of it, 350, 351.
Why the artificials are more excusable, 351.
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, 353.
The disguises of it, 357.
Who will learn to conceal it soonest, 361.
Is our most dangerous enemy, 474.

Principle. A man of honour, and one that has none, may act from the same principle, 324.
Reasons why the principle of self-esteem is to be reckoned among the passions, ibid., 325.
Honour not built upon any principle either of religion or virtue, 349.
Principles most men act from, 511, 512.

Prodigality, 54.
The use of it to the society, ibid. 152.

Proposal, a, of a reverend divine for an human sacrifice to complete the solemnity of a birth day, 277.

Providence saved our species from being destroyed by wild beasts, 431, 433.
A definition of it, 431.
The raising of cities and nations the work of Providence, 492.

Provisions, how to procure plenty of them, 114, 115, 178.

Prudence, 458.

Public spirit has left the nation, 201.
The symptoms of the want of it, ibid, 202.
An exhortation to retrieve it, 203.

Pulchrum, the, Honestum of the ancients, a chimera, 210.

Punch, the society compared to a bowl of punch, 55.

Purposes. Fire and water are made for many that are very different from one another, 435.

Qualifications. The most valuable in the beginning of society would be strength, agility, and courage, 452.

Qualities, the hateful, of women more beneficial to trade than their virtues, 137.
The good qualities of man do not make him sociable, 218.
Which are the heft for the society, 227.

Quarrels, how to prevent them, 318.
The cause of them on account of religion, 413.
Occasioned by the word predestination, 429.
A quarrel between two learned divines, 510.

Question, which has done the most mischief; 209.

Quixote, Don, the last man of ancient honour upon record, 117.

Reading and writing, why hurtful to the poor, 180.
Never to be taught for nothing, 186.
Not necessary to make good Christians, 193.

Reality of pleasures discussed, 85, 86.

Reason, a, why few people understand themselves, 12.
Why our neighbours outdo us at foreign markets, 196, 197.

Reason is acquired, 396.
The art of reasoning not brought to perfection in many ages, 417.
The stress men lay upon their reason is hurtful to faith, 487, 269.

Reformation, the, of less moment to trade than hooped petticoats, 228.

Religion not the cause of virtue, 17.
Of the heathens absurd, 40.
Where there is the least of it, 165, 193.
Things pass for religion that are foreign to it, 175.
The Christian, the only solid principle, 332, 488.
Came into the world by miracle, 407.
What was not revealed is not worthy to be called religion, 408.
The first propensity towards religion, not from gratitude in savages, 411.

Religious houses examined, 87, 88.

Reneau, Monsieur, accounts mechanically for the sailing and working of ships, 362.

Respect, whether better shown by silence or by making a noise, 371.

Revenge, what it shows in our nature, 458.

Reverence, the ingredients of it, 405.
Illustrated from the decalogue, 461.
The weight of it to procure obedience, 462.

Riches, the contempt of them very scarce, 341.
Lavishness no sign of it, ibid.

Ridicule, the Lord Shaftsbury’s opinion concerning it, 296.

Right, the, which parents claim to their children is unreasonable, 406, 413, 414.

Right and wrong, the notions of it are acquired, 418, 419, 420.

Rogues, not made for want of reading and writing, 169.
Are oftener very cunning than ignorant, 170.

Roman Catholics are not subjects to be relied upon, but in the dominions of his holiness, 329.

Rome, new, is obliged to old Rome, 203.
Rome, the court of the greatest academy of refined politics, 197.
Has little regard for religion; or piety, ibid.

Rule, a, to know what is natural from what is acquired, 478.

Russia wants knowledge, 203.

Sabbath, the, the usefulness of it in worldly affairs, 464.

Savages of the first class are not to be made sociable when grown up, 355.
It would require many years to make a polite nation from savages, ibid.
The descendants of civilized men may degenerate into savages, 401, 450.
There are savages in many parts of the world, 403.
Savages do all the same things, 465.
Those of the first class could have, no language, 466.
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, 403.
Be incapable of governing his offspring, 405.
Would create reverence in his child, 404.
Would want conduct, 406.
Could only worship an invisible cause out of fear, 408.
Could have no notions of right or wrong, 418.
Propagates his species by instinct, 422.
Contributes nothing to the existence of his children as a voluntary agent, 423.
The children of his bringing up would be all fit for society, 426.

Scarlet or crimson cloth, the bustle to be made in the world to procure it, 228, 229.

Scheme, the, of deformity, the system of the Fable of the Bees, so called by Horatio, 279, 281.

Scheme, the, or plan of the globe, requires the destruction as well as generation of animals, 436.
Mutual affection to our species would have been definitive to it, 443.

Scolding, and calling names, bespeaks some degree of politeness, 473.
The practice of it could not have been introduced without self-denial at first, 274.

Sea, the, blessings and calamities we receive from it, 230 to 235.

Search, a, into the nature of society, 205, to 238.

Security of the nation.
What a great part of it conflicts in, 503.

Self-liking different from self-love, 353.
Given by nature for self-preservation, ib.
The effect it has upon creatures, ibid. and 356.
Is the cause of pride, 354.
What creatures do not show it, ibid.
What benefit creatures receive from self-liking, 355.
Is the cause of many evils, ibid.
Encomiums upon it, 357.
Suicide impracticable while self-liking lasts, ibid.

Selfishness, the, of human nature, visible in the ten commandments, 455, 456.

Self-love, the cause of suicide, 357.
Hates to see what is acquired separated from what is natural, 478, 479.

Self-denial, a glorious instance of it, 90.

Seneca, his summum bonum, 86.

Servants, the scarcity of them occasioned by charity schools, and the mischief it produces, 189, 190, 191.
Their encroachments on masters, 192, 195.

Services, reciprocal, are what society consists in, 513.
Are impracticable without money, 514.

Shaftsbury, Lord, his system contrary to the author’s, 205.
Refuted by his own character, 210.
Remarks upon him for jesting with revealed religion, 292, 519.
For holding joke and banter to be the best and surest touchstone to try the worth of things by, 296.
For pretending to try the scriptures by that test, ibid.
Was the first who held that virtue required no self-denial, 337.
Encomiums on him, 296, 519.

Shame, a definition of it, 27.
What makes us ashamed of the faults of others, 28.
The symptoms of it, 29.
The usefulness of it to make us sociable, 30 to 33.
Its real passion in our nature, 328.
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, 325, 328.
The same fear of shame that may produce the most worthy actions, may be the cause of the most heinous crimes, 349.

Shame, the sense of, the use that is made of it in the education of children, 315.
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, 362, 363.

Simile, a, to illustrate the treatment that has been given to the Fable of the Bees, 333, 335.

Sighing described, 373.

Signs and gestures, the significancy of them, 466, 467.
Confirm words, 469.
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, 213, to 219.
What it is that makes us sociable, ibid.

Sociableness, the love of our species not the cause of it, 387, 391.
Erroneous opinions about it, 388, 389.
Reasons commonly given for man’s sociableness, ibid.
Great part of man’s sociableness is lost if neglected in his youth 390.
What it consists in, 392, 393, 394.
The principle of it is the work of Providence, 393.
Mutual commerce is to man’s sociableness what fermentation is to the vinosity of wine, 395.
Sociableness in a great measure owing to parents, 463.

Social System, the manner of it in judging of state-ministers and politicians, 187.
Of the piety of princes, 288.
Of foreign wars, ibid. 289.
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, 289.
On lawyers and physicians, 292.
On clergymen, ibid.
Is of little use unless the poor and meaner sort of people can be possessed of it, ibid. 293.

Social toyman, the, described, 295.

Society, no creatures without government less fit for it than man, 13, 221.
The society compared to a bowl of punch, 55.
The defects of it should be mended by the legislature, 202.
The nature of society, 187, 205.
Man’s love for society, examined into, 213 to 227.
Cautions to be used in judging of man’s fitness for society, 387 to 391.
Is of human invention, 393.
Man is made for it as grapes are for wine, ibid.
What man’s fitness in it consists in, 395.
Might arise from private families of savages, 398, 403.
Difficulties that would hinder savages from it, 404, 405.
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, 451.
The third and last would be the invention of letters, 453.
Civil society is built upon the vanity of our wants, 513.
Temporal happiness is in all large societies, as well to be obtained without speech, as without money, 514.

Soldiers, their paultry finery, 129.
The usage they receive, ibid. 130.
The alteration it makes on them when they turn soldiers, 174.

Sommona-Codom, 489.

Soul, the, compared to an architect, 377.
We know little of it that is not revealed to us, 380.

Spartans, their frugality, 149.

Species, the strength of our species unknown, 127.
The love to our species an idle pretence, 213, 227.
The high opinion we have of it hurtful, 269.

Speech, though a characteristic of our species must be taught, 397.
Is not to be learned by people come to maturity, if till then they never had heard any, ibid, 466.
Want of it easily supplied by signs among two savages of the first class, 467.
Whether invented to make our thoughts known to one another, 392.
The first design of it was to persuade, ibid.
Lowness of speech a piece of good manners, 471.
The effect it has, 472.

Spinosism, 486.

Statesman, a consummate, what he ought to be, 500.
The scarcity of those who deserve the name, ibid.

Steele, Sir Richard, his elegant flatteries of his species, 19.

Stoics, their pleasures, 85.
Their arrogance and hypocrisy, ibid.

Study, hard, whether men submit to it to serve their country or themselves, 511, 513.

Suicide, never committed but to avoid something worse than death, 124.

Sun, the, not made for this globe only, 433.

Sunday, the most useful day in seven, 193.
What it is set apart for, ibid.

Superiority of understanding in man, when most visibly useful, 477.
When disadvantageous, 478.

Superstition, the objects of it, 459, 460.
What sort of people are most in danger of falling into it, 487.

Superstitious men may blaspheme, 487.

Symptoms of pride, natural and artificial, 350.

System, the, that virtue requires no self-denial is dangerous, 337.
The reason, ibid.

Tears, drawn from us from different causes. 374.

Temperance, personal, makes no rulers slighted that have real power, 93, 94.

Temple, Sir William, animadverted upon, 398.
A long quotation from him, ibid. 399.

Tennis play, spoke of to illustrate what chance is, 448, 449.

Thefts and robberies, the causes of them in great cities, 167, 168, 169.

Theology, the most necessary faculty, 184.

Thinking, where performed, 377.
What it consists in, 378, 380.
Immense difference of the faculty of it, 382.
Acquired by time and practice, 396.

Thought operates upon the body, 377.

Time, great difficulty in the division of it, 464.
The Sabbath a considerable half in it, ibid.

Traders, none strictly honest, 25.
Why all take such pains to hide the prime cost of their goods, 39.

Trades, a discourse on the various trades required, and the numbers in each, 188, 189.

Traffic. What it is that promotes it, 230.

Treasurer, the Lord, whom he obeys at peril, 497.

Treasury, what the management of it requires, 496, 497.

Trooper, why worse than a foot soldier, 129.

Truth, impertinent in the sublime, 281.
Not to be minded in painting, 283.

Vanini, a martyr for atheism, 128.

Vanity may be owned by modest men, 263, 264.

Vice, a definition of it, 17.
Has the same origin in man as it has in horses, 455.
Why the vices of particular men may be said to belong to the whole species, 458.
Vice is exposed in the Fable of the Bees, 262.
What it consists in, 364.
Why bare-faced vice is odious, 268.

Views, the different, things may be set in, 228, 238.

Universities, their policy, 163.
Ours are defective as to law and physic, 182, 183.
What universities should be, ibid. 184.

Virgins, rules how to behave themselves, 31.

Virtue, the origin of moral virtue, 13.
A definition of virtue, 17.
Not derived from religion, ibid.
What excited the ancients to heroic virtue, 18.
How virtue is made friends with vice, 41.
No virtue without self-denial, 88, 205.
Where to look for the virtues of great men, 96.
The reason why there are so few men of real virtue, 132.
Consists in action, 211.
In the sense of the beau monde imbibed at operas, 287.
What most of the beau monde mean by it, 267.
Real virtue not more to be found at operas than at bear gardens, 301.
A trial whether a fine gentleman acts from principles of virtue and religion, or from vain glory, 317, 318.
It requires self-denial, 337.
False pretences to virtue, 338, 339, 344.
No virtue more often counterfeited than charity, 345, 346.
Virtue is not the principle from which men attain to great accomplishments, 508, 511, 512.
Is the most valuable treasure, 513.
Yet seldom heartily embraced without reward, ibid.
No virtue more scarce than Christian humility, 271.

Virtuous, when the epithets is improper,337.
Actions are called virtuous, that are manifestly the result of frailties, 339.
There are virtuous men; but not so many as is imagined, 504.

Vitzliputzli. Idol of the Mexicans, 460.

Unity, the, of a God, a mystery taught by Moses, 416.

Understanding, man’s superior, has defeated the rage of wild beasts, 429.
When found most useful, 476.
Disadvantages in savages, 477.

Wars. The cause of them, 442.
What would have been the consequence, if there never had been any, ibid., 445, 446.

Watermen. Their manner of plying, 226.

Waters, strong. Their bad effect on the poor, 44.

Watches and clocks. The cause of the plenty, as well as exactness of them, 465.

Weeping, a sign of joy as well as sorrow, 374.
A conjecture on the cause of it, ib.

Whales. Their food, 436.
Why the economy in them is different from other fish, ib.

Whores. The necessity there is for them, 50, 51, 52.

Wild beasts. The danger from them the first step towards society, 425.
Always to be apprehended whilst societies are not well settled, ib. 426, 431, 432, 450.
Why our species was never totally extirpated by them, 430, 433.
The many mischiefs our species has sustained from them, 426, 429, 433, 434.
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, 437.
Are part of the punishment after the fall, 450.
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, 432.
Great renown has been obtained in killing them, ib.

Will, the, is swayed by our passions, 426.

Wisdom, the Divine, very remarkable in the contrivance of our machines, 375, 407.
In the different instincts of creatures, 430, 462, 463.
In the second commandment, 459.
Acts with original certainty, 391.
Becomes still more conspicuous as our knowledge increases, 408.
Wisdom must be antecedent to the things contrived by it, 486.