CONTENT S.

VOL.

Preliminary Difcourfe concerning the Origin of Men and of Languages.

BOOK

I.

Progrefs of Men independent of Society.

Sketch

1. Progrefs of food and population,

2. Progrefs of property,

Sect.

I.

3. Origin and progress of commerce,

4. Origin and progress of arts,

1. Useful arts,

2. Progress of taste and of the fine arts,

5. Progrefs of manners,

VOL. II.

Sk.

6. Progress of the female fex, Appendix,

Concerning propagation of animals, and care

of progeny,

7. Progrefs and effects of luxury,

BOOK

II.

Progrefs of Men in Society.

Sk.

1. Appetite for fociety.—Origin of national so

cieties,

Pag

3

85

116

127

162

162

196

314

Pag.

98

109

Pag

153

2. General

Sk.

2. General view of government,

3. Different forms of Government compared,

4. Progress of ftates from small to great, and from great to small,

5. Great and fmall states compared,

6. War and peace compared,

7. Rife and fall of patriotism,

8. Finances,

Sect.

1. General confiderations on taxes,
2. Power of impofing taxes,

3. Different forts of taxes, with their ad-
vantages and difadvantages,

4. Manner of levying taxes,

5. Rules to be obferved in taxing,

6. Taxes examined with respect to their ef

fects,

7. Taxes for advancing industry and com

merce,

Sk.

9. Military branch of government,

10. Public police with respect to the poor,

11. A great city confidered in phyfical, moral, and political views.

12. Origin and progrefs of American nations,

воок

III.

Progrefs of Sciences.

Sk.

1. Principles and progress of reafon,

Pag.

229

227

256

271

289

312

346

348 355

363

375

378

393

403

Pag.

63

116

134

Pag.

186

Sect.

Appendix,

A brief account of Ariftotle's logic. With

remarks,

Chap.

1. Of the first three treatises,

2. Remarks,

3. Account of the First Analytics,

4. Remarks,

5. Account of the remaining books of the

Organon,

6. Reflections on the utility of logic, and the

means of its improvement,

V O L. IV.

Sk.

2. Principles and progress of morality,

Part

1. Principles of morality,

Pag.

186

217

300

305

ib.

317

347

359

391

407

Pag.

Sect.

1. Human actions analyfed,

2. Divifion of human actions into right,

wrong, and indifferent,

3. Laws of nature refpecting our moral

conduct in fociety,

26

4. Principles of duty and of benevolence, 47

5. Laws refpecting rewards and pu-

nishments,

ib.

9

5L

6. Laws

Book 3. Sk. 2. Part. 1. continued.

Sect.

Part

6. Laws refpecting reparation,

7. Final caufes of the foregoing laws

of nature,

8. Liberty and neceffity confidered with

respect to morality,

Appendix,

Upon chance and contingency,

2. Progress of morality,

Sk.

3. Principles and progrefs of theology,

Chap.

1. Existence of a Deity,

2. Progress of opinions with respect to

APPENDIX.

Sketches concerning Scotland.

Sk.

1. Scotch entails confidered in moral and political

views,

2. Government of royal boroughs in Scotland,

3. Plan for improving and preferving in order

the highways in Scotland,

Pag.

64

76

92

118

125

189

190

210

281

284

344

Pag.

435

452

462

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HE Human Species is in every view an interesting subject, and has been in every age the chief enquiry of philofophers. The faculties of the mind have been explored, and the affections of the heart; but there is ftill wanting a History of the Species, in its progress from the favage ftate to its highest civilization and improvement. Above thirty years ago, I began to collect materials for that hiftory; and in the vigour of youth, did not think the undertaking too bold even for a fingle hand: but in the progress of VOL. I. A

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