Tests, their supposed advantages are attended with injustice, ii. 121. Are nugatory, 122. Their injurious and ensnaring effects illus- trated in the French federal oath, 123, 123. In the subscription of the dissenting clergy of England to the articles of the estab- lished church, 123. Influence of tests on the latitudinarian, 124. On the purist, 124. Benefits that would result from their aboli- tion, 125.
Theories, estimated, i, 163.
Theseus, ii. 252.
INDEX. 285 Thovgllt, its concern in the mechanism of the mind, i. 190. Thoughts which produce animal motion maybe involuntary, 191. Unattended with consciousness, 192. The mind can have but one thought at a time, 192. Objection from the case of complex ideas, 193. From comparison, 194, From apprehension, 194. A distinct thought not necessary to each motion, 196. Incon- gruity of attempting to restrain thought, ii. 117. Consequence* that would result, 118. Instances in which thought modifies the structure and members of the human body, 249.
Titles, their origin and history, ii. 48. Their absurdity, 49. Coun- tenance afforded them by the community, 214.
Toleration, principle upon which it is to be vindicated, ii. 120.
Torture, instruments of, i. 6.
Tradesman, his fawning manners one of the evils resulting from, property, ii. 218. Conduct that will be observed by him in a more equal state of society, 264, 265.
Tranquillity, intellectual, considered in relation to the doctrine of necessity, i. 188.
Transportation, see Banishment.
Treaties of alliance, estimated, ii. 83, 85.
Truth, the term vindicated, i. 26 note. Will prevail over error, 41, Is capable of being adequately communicated, 41. Is omnipo- tent, 43. ii. 38. Its property is to spread, i. 46. Not subject to the vicissitudes of flux and reflux, 134. Not promoted by political associations, 137. Tendency of truth, ii. 58. Necessity of its being told, an argument against the restraining of libels, 131. Effect of truth in the case of libels contrasted with that of force, 135.
Tum.ult, exhortations to, a species of libel that may lawfully be restrained, ii. 129.
Turkey, effect of wealth and rank on its inhabitants, i. 11.
Tyrannicide, diversity of opinions on the subject of, i. 143. Argu- ment in its vindication stated, and answered, 143. Consequences of tyrannicide, 144.
V.
V ALOIS, duke de, ii. 9.
Venality, and corruption, necessary to the existence of monarchy, ii. 21. Extent of their influence, ib.
Veto, royal prerogative of exercising it, ii. 40.
Vice, its nature described, i. 72. Has no essential advantage over virtue, ii. 64.
Virgil, ii. 233.
Virtue, general qualities of, i. 50, 62. Virtuous action, 71. A virtuous agent, 71. Fotmdation of virtue, 81. Virtue the best gift of man j proved by its undecaying excellence, 148. By its manner of adapting itself to all situations, 149. Cannot be effectually communicated but by a cultivated mind, 149. Mis- guided virtue, ib. Virtue defined, 150, 205. ii. 70. Its con- nection with knowledge and talents, i. 147, 149, 150,.152.
286 INDEX.
Considered in relation to the doctrine of necessity, 183. Valu- able only as the instrument of pleasure, 214.
Understanding, meaning of the term, i. 82. Cultivation of the understanding has no tendency to corrupt the heart, ii. 116.
Universe, evils existing in it displayed, i. 216.
Universities, their backwardness in knowledge, ii. 142.
Volition, inseparable from foresight, i. 31, 33, 201. Does not enter into the earliest actions of a human being, 31.
Vote, decision by, its consequences, ii. 97. Its recommenda- tions, 153.
W.
WALLACE, ii. 221 note, 247.
War, its nature delineated, i. 4. ii. 71, 83. Its frequency among the ancients, i. 4. Among the moderns, 5. Its causes, 5. ii. 72. Offensive war, 69. Defensive, 69. Legitimate causes of war, 73. The object of war ought to be, repelling an invader, 73. Not reformation, 74. Not restraint, 74. Not indemnification, ib. Nothing a sufficient object of war that is not a sufficient cause for beginning it, 74. Conduct of war. See Military operations. Naval war, 78. Necessity of the practice of humanity in war, 78. Duty of independent communities as to war, 174. The passion for war produced by the prevailing system of property, 223.
Watson, i. 195 note.
Wealth, man of, his happiness estimated, i. 212. Injustice of the inordinate admiration of wealth, ii. 28. Injustice of its accu- mulation, 219. Reception of wealth and intellectual excellence compared, 264.
Whiston, i. 43.
Will, not a distinct faculty, i. 181.
Williain III. i. 5.
Wolsey, i. 133.
Woolslon, i. 43.
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