MAHOMEDAN RELIGION, its rapid establishment, 54.-- Its effects on the commerce with India, ib.
MANNERS greatly corrupted at Rome, 43.-- A change in them constantly going on, and tending to bring decline,
MANUFACTURES settled early on the shores of the Baltic, 3.-- Those who possess them first, lose them by imitation of others, 14.-- India surpassed in them by England, 63.-- In ancient times, only, extended to luxuries for the great and simple necessaries for the poor, 73.-- Manufacturers less splendid than merchants, 143.-- The working men consume more animal food than the same rank of people in any other nation, 144.-- England considered as excelling all other nations for manufacturers =sic=, 200.-- The effects of the inventions of the steam engine and spinning machines, 203.-- Scarcely any thing sold to the American states, except our own manufactures, 204.-- Southern nations cannot rival northerly ones, 210.-- Manufactures, and agriculture, more conducive to wealth than commerce, are not the same thing, 209.
MEDITERRANEAN, its shores the first abodes of commerce, 3 and 4, 20.-- Lost its importance by the discovery of America, the magnet, and the passage to India by the Cape,
MERCHANTS less splendid than conquerors and planters, 143.-- Can have no rule of conduct in transactions but their own advantage, 181.
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NATIONS, none that ever submitted to pay tribute, ever flourished long, 40.-- Enriched by commerce, not so certain to decline as by conquests, 41.-- There =sic= situation with respect to wealth and power previous to the discovery of America, 49.-- Feeble nations have some advantage in knowing their weakness, 171.-- Exterior causes of their decline of less importance than interior ones, 184.-- Should consider which is the best object on which to employ their industry, 210, 211.-- Their comparative extent, revenues, and population, illustrated by an engraved chart, 213, 214.-- Nations of Europe, application of the present inquiry to them, 284.
NECESSITY consisting of a desire to supply wants, the cause of industry and wealth, 14.-- Necessity ceases its operation on the nation that is risen highest, 15, 16.-- Operated very powerfully on the Dutch, 47.-- Habit prolongs the action of it, 81.-- With young men that can, alone, produce industry, 84.-- Less and less on each generation as wealth increases, 85. The consequences of this, 87.-- Its operation prolonged to a certain degree by taxation, 239.--
NORTHERN countries most favourable to industry, 44.
NILE. See Egypt.