Magistrates, when they make the state incline to 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 Music, how many species of it, in; why a part of education, 240; how far it should be taught, 242, 243; professors of it considered as mean people, 244; imitates the disposition of the mind, 246; improves our manners, 246; Lydian, softens the mind, 247; pieces of, difficult in their execution, not to be taught to children, 249 Nature requires equality amongst equals, 101 Naval power should be regulated by the strength of the city, 212 Necessary parts of a city, what, 215