i. 213

Statistics, study of, i. 2. Importance of, 23 _note_. Of murder and other crimes, 24-29. Value of statistics in the light thrown upon the study of human nature, 33. Early writers on statistics, 33 _note_. Dislike of Adam Smith and David Hume for statistics, iii. 339. Objections to them, 339 _note_

Steam, effect of the application of, to purposes of travelling, in weakening the love of war, i. 219-221

Steam-engine, Watt's invention of the, iii. 402

Stearn, Richard, his character as Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 392

Stepney, Mr., his notions of political economy, i. 211 _note_

Stewart, Professor Matthew, his crusade against the algebraic or symbolical analysis, i. 247

St[oe]ffler, John, his predictions as to the deluge of 1524, i. 330

Stoics, the, on the preservation of consciousness in dreams and in insanity, i. 17 _note_

Stuart, Charles, the young Pretender, his stupidity and drunkenness, i. 444 _note_

Subinfeudation, effects of, in France, ii. 119

Suicide, the crime of, dependent upon the individual, i. 26. Futility of endeavours to diminish, by legislation, 26 _note_. Bentham on the perjury of English juries in cases of, 26 _note_. Regularity of the recurrence of, 28. Causes of, 28. Supposed effect of gloomy weather on the love of, 220 _note_. Statistics of, 28, 29

Sully, Marshal, ii. 43. His historical work, 266

Sumatra, superstitions of the people of, respecting tigers, i. 126 _note_

Sumbawa, the great earthquake and volcanic eruption of 1815 at, i. 126 _note_

Sunday schools begun, i. 430. Opposition of the clergy to their establishment, 431 _note_

Superstition, physical causes which give birth to, i. 122, 123. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, 123, 126. The worship of ferocious animals, 125, 126. The fear of death, 127. Pestilences, 127. Extent of popular superstition in Prussia, 238 _note_. Progress of the English intellect in the seventeenth century in shaking off ancient superstitions, 363. Instance in Scotland of the popular belief in supernatural causation, 373. Causes of the superstitions of sailors and agriculturists, 375. Terror inspired by comets and eclipses, 376. The study of final causes abandoned by Descartes, ii. 91. Connexion between loyalty and superstition, 455. Similarity between Scotland and Spain as to superstition, iii. 4. Scotland favourable to superstition, 35. Sources of superstition, 35. Cause and effect of Scotch superstition, 203. Superstition of the Scotch still existing, 471. Superstitions every day becoming effaced as physical science advances, 477

Surgery, decline of the science of, in the reign of Louis XIV.,