HOUSE rent.  See Rent.

HUME, David, Esq. his errors respecting national debt, though a man of great abilities, 114.

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JAMES I. did not understand the true reason, why the Scotch were greater lovers of liberty in his time than the English, 280.

IDLENESS, incompatible with riches in a nation, in every case, but not so with an individual, 82.

IMPORTS of, England, chart of, 213.

INDIA.  Its productions seem to have been the first objects of commerce, 51.—­Digression concerning this trade, 51 to 69.—­Its trade and possessions excite envy, 193, 194, 195.—­Our possessions too great, 197.—­Budget, its statement and calculation of sums remitted home, 198.—­Has lost the cotton trade notwithstanding the low rate of labour, 200.—­Its trade compared with that of the country at large, 206, 207.—­A peculiar cause of other nations envying England, 257.—­ Ought not to be so, as they produce very little wealth compared with what springs from national industry, 291.—­The division of labour, ready methods of working, and inventions produce more wealth than both the Indies, 293.

INDIES, West, the trade of, lost to France, 193.—­Trade of England to, of a permanent nature, 195.—­A cause of envy, 196, 197, 198, 199.—­ Ought not to be a cause of envy.

INDIVIDUALS, some may live without labour, but all those of a country never can, 82.—­Can pay for certain things, for which they cannot provide, 95.

INDUSTRY caused by poverty and necessity, 19.—­A more permanent source of wealth than any other, 42.—­Industry in youth, the great advantage of through life, 84.—­Diminishes as wealth increases, 90.—­Tends to leave a wealthy nation after a certain time, 161.—­ Industry of England, the great support of its wealth, and if other nations were as industrious, each in the way most advantageous, they would be as rich as England, 292.

INTERIOR causes of decline enumerated and examined as habits of life and manners, 81 to 93.—­Arising from education, 94 to 101.  The effects on the people and the government, from 102 to 115.—­Arising from public bodies, from 116 to 124.—­Arising from unequal division of property and employment of capital, from 125 to 136.—­Arising from the produce of the soil, becoming unequal to the consumption, from page 137 to 160.—­From the tendency of industry and capital to leave a wealthy country, from 161 to 166.—­Conclusion of interior causes, from 166 to 174.

INTEREST, compound, its progress, more certain in paying off debts than in accumulating capital, 241.

INVENTIONS, three great ones almost totally changed the state of mankind, 4.—­Inventions render more capital necessary to commerce, 126.—­Is one of the things that renders our superiority in manufactures secure, 202.—­A nation that remains stationary will soon be surpassed, 203.

JOHNSON, Dr. would have been a greater man if he had lived in a poorer nation, 113.