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].