o an oligarchy, 61;
when to an aristocracy, 61;
at Athens, from whom to be chosen, 64;
to determine those causes which the law cannot be applied to, 88;
whether their power is to be the same, or different
in different communities, 137;
how they differ from each other, 138;
in those who appoint them, 138;
should be continued but a short time in democracies, 161;
how to be chosen in a democracy, 185;
different sorts and employments, 196

Making and using, their difference, 6

Malienses, their form of government, 131

Man proved to be a political animal, 4;
has alone a perception of good and evil, 4;
without law and justice the worst of beings, 5

Master, power of, whence it arises, as some think, 5

Matrimony, when to be engaged in, 232

Meals, common, established in Crete and Italy, 218;
expense of, should be defrayed by the whole state, 219

Mechanic employments useful for citizens, 73

Mechanics, whether they should be allowed to be citizens, 74, 75;
cannot acquire the practice of virtue, 75;
admitted to be citizens in an oligarchy, 75

Medium of circumstances best, 126

Members of the community, their different pretences to the employments
of the state, 90;
what natural dispositions they ought to be of, 213

Men, some distinguished by nature for governors, others to be governed, 7;
their different modes of living, 13;
worthy three ways, 226

Merchandise, three different ways of carrying it on, 20

Middle rank of men make the best citizens, 127;
most conducive to the preservation of the state, 128;
should be particularly attended to by the legislators, 130

Military, how divided, 194

Mitylene, an account of a dispute there, 150

Monarch, absolute, 100

Monarchies, their nature, 95, 96;
sometimes elective, 95;
sometimes hereditary, 95;
whence they sometimes arise, 146;
causes of corruption in them, 167;
how preserved, 173

Money, how it made its way into commerce, 16;
first weighed, 16;
afterwards stamped, 16;
its value dependent on agreement, 16;
how gained by exchange, 19

Money--getting considered at large, 17, 18

Monopolising gainful, 21; sometimes practised by cities, 21

Monopoly of iron in Sicily, a remarkable instance of the profit of it, 21

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