After this I flatter my felf to have demonstrated that, neither the Friendly Qualities and kind Affections that are natural to Man, nor the real Virtues he is capable of acquiring by Reason and Self-Denial, are the Foundation of Society; but that what we call Evil in this World, Moral as well as Natural, is the grand Principle that makes us fociable Creatures, the folid Bafis, the Life and Support of all Trades and Employments without Exception: That there we must look for the true Origin of all Arts and Sciences, and that the Moment Evil ceases, the Society must be fpoiled, if not totally diffolved.

I could add a thousand things to enforce and further illuftrate this Truth with abundance of Pleasure; but for fear of being troublesome I fhall make an End, tho' I confess that I have not been half fo follicitous to gain the Approbation of others, as I have study'd to please my self in this Amusement; yet if ever I hear, that by following this Diverfion I have given any to the intelligent Reader, it will always add to the Satisfaction I have received in the PerforIn the hope my Vanity forms of this, I leave him with regret, and conclude with repeating the feeming Paradox, the Substance of which is advanced in the Title Page; that Pri vate Vices by the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician may be turned into Publick Benefits.

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A.

IR and Space no Objects of Sight, Pag. 375.
Acknowledgment due to Ancestors, 369.

Alexander the Great. The Recompence he had in
view, 40. Proved from his own Mouth, 41. Another
Demonftration of his Frailty, 383.

America, what the Conqueft of it has coft, 214.

Anger defined, 221. Conquered by Fear, ibid. and 227.
The Operation of Strong Liquors imitates that of Anger,

235.

Apology (an) for feveral Paffages in the Book, 256, 257, 258.
An Apology for recommending Ignorance, 332.
Atheism has had its Martyrs, 238.

Avarice, 100. The Reason why it is generally hated, 101.
Why the Society ftands in need of it, ibid. and 102. Is
equally necessary with Prodigality, 106, 283.

B.

Beards, the various Modes concerning them, 376.

Beggars, their Policy, 291, 292. What fort of People com-
plain of them moft, ibid.

Behaviour of modelt Women, 60. Of a Bride and Bride-
groom, 64. Of undisciplin'd Soldiers, 229.

Belief, when we deferve it, 169.

Benefits that accrue from the worst of People, 81, till 92.

Blefings, Prejudicial, 254.

Brandy

Brandy-Shops, the Qualifications required to keep them. 88.

Breeding (good) a Definition of it, 69. A Difcourfe on it, 70 till 74.

Brewing and Baking Luxurious Inventions, 184.

Britain (Great) wants Ignorance, 345, 370.

Buftle (the) to be made in the World to procure a Scarlet or Crimfon Cloth, 411.

Cato, his Character, 385.

C.

Charity. A Definition of it, 285. Is often counterfeited by our Paffions, 287, 291, 294. The Compliments paid to all the Appearances of Charity, 295. Abuses of Charity, ibid. and 296, 302.

Charity-Children have no Opportunity to learn good Manners, 305. Why they are pleafing to the Eye, 320. Charity-Schools are admired to Diftraction, 303. What is faid in behalf of them, ibid. Not capable to prevent Thefts and Robberies, 304. The Caufe of our Fondness for those Schools, 313. A Defcription of the first Rife and fubfequent Steps that are made to erect a Charity-School, ibid. till 320. The Joy they give, ibid. and 321. They are an Inexhaustible Fund for Tittle-Tattle, ibid. and 322. The Charms of them to the Multitude, 323. The different Views Partymen have in wishing well to them, 354, 355. More Labour and Eloquence are laid out upon them than on any other Duty, ibid. The Comfort the Wicked find in liking them, 324. The true Motives of the Bustle made about them, 325. Arguments against Charity-Schools, fhewing them to be deftructive to the Publick, 326, till 370. A perpetual Nursery for them, 344. Children. What makes them mannerly, 305. What all delight in, 319. Labour the proper Province of the Children of the Poor, 341.

Church, going to it of the utmoft Neceffity to the Poor, 352.

Cicero, his Character, 384.

Claffes. The two Claffes Men are divided into, 30.

Clergy, Pride conceal'd' in them, 136. Their Value for

the

the Comforts of Life, 165, 166. A deceitful Plea of theirs, 167. What brings them into Contempt, 168, 169. The fame illuftrated by Example, 170. The Clergy when poor, expose themselves by Matrimony, 172,

173.

Cloaths, the Ufe of them, 129.

Comforts of Life, various as the Condition of Men vary,

109.

Company (good) 387. The love of it not the Cause of Man's Sociablenefs, 386. Solitude to be preferr'd to fome Company, 390. Love of Company no Virtue, 391. The Reason why we love Company, 392.

Compaffion. A Story of a Child to raise Compaffion, 287. See Pity.

Conclufion of the Remarks, 280 till 285.

Conftitution, what it confifts in, 234.

Content the Bane of Industry, 17, 67. A Definition of Content, 272. Is a precarious Virtue, ibid. An Inftance of it, ibid. 274. Content more oppofite to Induftry than Laziness, 275.

Conversation between a Mercer and a Lady his Customer, 403, till 407.

Courage (natural) proceeds from Anger, 226. Spurious and Artificial Courage, 228. Natural Courage good for nothing in War, 229. Stratagems to create Courage, 230. 231, 233, 239, 240. How Pride is mistaken for Courage, 230. A Definition of Artificial Courage, 232. Custom, the Force of it, 186.

Customers, the different ways of drawing them, 407.

D.

Death not always the thing we fear the moft, 231. Intereft of Money after Death, 300.

Decencies and Conveniencies have a large Signification, 275. Defcartes, his Opinion refuted, 197.

Defcription (a) of the Pleasures of the Voluptuous, 157, 158. Of the killing of a Bullock, 196.

Diftiller, (a) what is required to make an Eminent one, 89.

Divines, what it is we are obliged to for the great Numbers of them, 336, 337.

Duelling

Duelling proceeeds not from falfe Notions of Honour, 242. The Benefit it is of to Society, 243. The Custom of it not to be abolish'd, ibid. How to prevent it, ibid., Dutch (the) not frugal by Principle, 202. Their Calamities under Philip II. of Spain, ibid. Their other Difadvantages, 203. How they differ from us, 204. Their Profuseness, 206. Their policy in encouraging the Extravagancies of Sailors, ibid.

E.

Education, Obfervations concerning it, 39, 46.
Effendi (Mahomet) died for Atheism, 238.

Elements (the) are all our Enemies, 396.

Emulation, Mankind divided in two Claffes for Emulation's fake, 30. The Emulation of School-Boys not derived from Virtue, 143.

Englishmen don't covet Spartan Greatnefs, 278.
Enthufiafm, the force of it, 278.

Envy, 139. A definition of it, ibid. The various Symptoms of it, 141, 142. Envy confpicuous in Brute Beafts, ibid. An Argument to fhew that Envy is rivetted in our Nature, 143. The ufe of Envy in Painters, 144. Envy has reform'd more bad Husbands than Preaching, 145 An Inftance of Envy, 146. No Body is without, ibid. Cato's Envy to Cafar, 385.

Epicurus, his highest Good, 150. Pious Chriftians the greatest Epicures, ibid. The Pleas and Apologies of Epicures, 127, 128, 260, 261.

Efay (an) on Charity and Charity Schools, 285.

Evil both Moral and Natural the folid Bafis of Society, 428.

F.

Fame, what the Thirst after Fame confifts in, 46. Fear, not to be conquer'd by Reason, 220. A Definition of Fear, ibid. The Neceffity of Fear in the Society, 227. Fear of Death when the strongest, 383.

Flattery, no Man Proof againft it, 37. The various Arts of it, 39, 40. 29

Flesh of Animals, to eat it is a cruel piece of Luxury, 187, 188, 189.

Footmen, the Faults they are generally guilty of in England,