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].