An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations · Adam Smith
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_Nations_, sometimes driven to inhuman customs, by poverty, 1. The number of useful and productive labourers in, always proportioned to the capital stock on which they are employed, 1, 2. The several sorts of industry seldom dealt impartially by, 2. Maritime nations, why the first improved, 8. How ruined by a neglect of public economy, 140. Evidences of the increase of a national capital, 141. How the expenses of individuals may increase the national capital, 142. _Navigation_, inland, a great means of improving a country in arts and industry, 9. The advantages of, 62. May be successfully managed by joint-stock companies, 317. _Navigation act of England_, the principal dispositions of, 187. Motives that dictated, this law, 188. Its political and commercial tendency, ib. Its consequences, so far as it affected the colony trade with England, 245. Diminished the foreign trade with Europe, 246. Has kept up high profits in the British trade, ib. Subjects Britain to a disadvantage in every branch of trade of which she has not the monopoly, ib., 247. _Necessaries_ distinguished from luxuries, 368. Operation of taxes on, ib. Principal necessaries taxed, 369. _Negro slaves_, why not much employed in raising corn in the English colonies, 159. Why more numerous on sugar than on tobacco plantations, ib. _Nile_, river, the cause of the early improvement of agriculture and manufactures in Egypt, 9. _Oats_, bread made of, not so suitable to the human constitution as that made of wheat, 68. _Ontology_, the science of, explained, 323. _Oxford_, the professorships there, sinecures, 319.
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