Chapter 4 of 74 · Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms by Adam Smith
TABLE OF PARALLEL PASSAGES IN THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
PAGE INW. of N.PAGE IN LECTURESINTRODUCTION (vol. i. pp. 1-4).2Many do not labour at all1632-3Proportion of workers dependent on amount of stock181BOOK I.CHAP. I (vol. i. pp. 5-14).6-7Pin-making163-47-8Difficulty of dividing labour in agriculture1648Price and quality of French and English corn and manufactures1649-11Advantages of division of labour165-711-12Philosophers and invention167-812-14The making of the labourer’s coat161-2CHAP. II (vol. i. pp. 14-18).14-18What gives occasion to the division of labour168-71CHAP. III (vol. i. pp. 18-23).18-20Division of labour limited by the extent of the market172CHAP. IV (vol. i. pp. 23-30).24Cattle used as money: armour of Diomedes and Glaucus18327Names of coins originally weights18627-9Debasement186-9CHAP. V (vol. i. pp. 30-49).30Labour the real measure of value19041Silver the standard18642Bank notes for coins21344-6Gold rated too high190CHAP. VI (vol. i. pp. 49-57).50 (cf. 67)Originally the whole produce belongs to the labourer162CHAP. VII (vol. i. pp. 57-67).57-8Natural and market prices173, 17664-6Monopolies179-80CHAP. VIII (vol. i. pp. 67-92).75Wealth of China16576Chinese infanticide by drowning9285Free men’s work cheaper than slaves’9990-1Relation between price of corn and wages177-8CHAP. X (pt. i. vol. i. pp. 104-24; pt. ii. pp. 124-51).106-7Wages in trades which require expensive training173-5110-11Earnings of lawyers175125-30Apprenticeship236128Stampmaster236134Superiority of country workmen255146-7Migration under the law of settlement62150Legal regulation of prices180CHAP. XI (pt. i. vol. i. pp. 155-71; Digression, pp. 187-261).159 (cf. 398)Importation of corn into ancient Italy229187-227Variations in the value of money198207-10Corn-bounty180-2218“Mr. Meggens”194BOOK II.INTRODUCTION (vol. i. pp. 273-5).273-5Necessity of a stock181, 223CHAP. II (vol. i. pp. 283-331).291-3Banking191-2318Mississippi scheme211-19322Money compared to a highway191327Difficulty of getting Scotch notes cashed221328-30American depreciated paper currency221CHAP. III (vol. i. pp. 332-53).338-40Idleness in capital towns155CHAP. IV (vol. i. pp. 353-62).354Loans really consist of goods, not money220357Interest does not depend on the value of money219-20BOOK III.CHAP. II (vol. i. pp. 386-98).386-90Primogeniture and entails are hindrances to agriculture120, 124, 228388Entails and fidei-commissa123390-3Slave cultivation esp. in West Indies and America225-6391Slavery not likely to be abolished where slaves are numerous96393Papal influence in favour of emancipation101-2393-4Métayer or steel-bow tenants100, 226394Forty-shilling freeholders227-8394-5Tenancies made secure226-7396Feudal lords allowed the king to tallage their tenants227397Tenant who pays rent has less to lay out on improvements226CHAP. III (vol. i. pp. 398-409).399Feudal imposts on traders232-3400Borough farms40404King uses Commons against Lords41405Freedom of a villain escaping to a borough40CHAP. IV (vol. i. pp. 410-23).411Warwick the King-maker’s hospitality42413-4Extent of allodial and feudal jurisdictions36, 38, 116BOOK IV.CHAP. I (vol. ii. pp. 1-24).2-3Locke on money1984, 7Mun195-6, 1987Exportation of bullion free20115Amount of coin in Great Britain19917Supplies granted in 176120718, 19The cost of foreign war209CHAP. II (vol. ii. pp. 25-46).29National advantage in trade similar to individual20441Character of politicians254CHAP. III (Digression, vol. ii. pp. 53-62; pt. ii. pp. 62-73).54-62Bank of Amsterdam193-467-8Dear drink and drunkenness179CHAP. V (vol. ii. pp. 79-122).81-91Corn bounty180-2CHAP. VI (vol. ii. pp. 122-34).131Coinage without seigniorage59, 201CHAP. VII (pt. i. vol. ii. pp. 134-44; pt. ii. pp. 144-70).136-7Roman colonies274152Engrossing land may be forbidden in colonies226168Slaves better off under despotism than democracy96-7CHAP. VIII (vol. ii. pp. 226-46).227Linen bounty180232Exportation of wool a capital offence136244Consumption the sole purpose of production199CHAP. IX (vol. ii. pp. 246-73).266Hereditary employments in Egypt168269Free and slave labour in Hungarian and Turkish mines231BOOK V.CHAP. I (pt. i. vol. ii. pp. 274-92; pt. ii. pp. 292-305; pt. iii. art. 2, pp. 344-72).274No sovereign nor commonwealth in a nation of hunters14274-81Progress of military service26-9, 260-1275-6Shepherds more formidable than hunters20-1290Standing army and liberty30, 263294-6Four circumstances which give a man authority10296Upstart greatness10297Inequality of fortune begins in the shepherd state15298Civil government protects the rich15352-3Rivalry among English courts of justice49361Number of Athenian judges19365-7Disadvantages of division of labour255-9369Every one in Scotland can read256CHAP. II (pt. i. vol. ii. pp. 404-13; pt. ii. art. 1, pp. 413-40; art. 2, pp. 440-53; art. 4, pp. 463-506).408-13Rent as the sole source of public revenue238-9411Rents of land in Great Britain224, 238418Land tax paid as part of rent243-4Land tax inexpensive to levy240418-19Land tax does not check improvement244422Rents in kind227442Difficulty of taxing stock239443-4Stock only taxed to a trifling extent under the land tax240483-4Walpole’s excise scheme242495-6Effect of import and export duties245-6497England has the best financial system245499-504French system of finance inferior to the English244-5CHAP. III (vol. ii. pp. 506-50).508Effect of the introduction of luxury on the kingly power42-3512-17The national debt247-9518-19Loans are advanced by merchants250523Amount of the national debt210526-9Pernicious nature of the national debt210-11542American currency wholly paper192-3
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