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v. a short observation Comm. I. 127. v. Puftendorf pp. 160 603. It reflects no Terror — It does not to the persons in the
same situation circumstances with the object of the Crime — they are
Children Infants just come into the world vegetating beings, unactivated
for the most part by hopes or fears — certainly by any fears resulting from
the observation of an act of that sort.

It does not to the persons connected with the former class,
the Parents. the motives to the crime are confined to
that single object of amongst the species: they extend not to any
other individual whatsoever: this difference is too obvious for every to escape
any individual not to be sensible of: and it is without doubt
some confused notion sense of it + + that turns the current of popular compassion towards the persons who are so unhappy as to fall into it, in preference to other destroyers of human life. v. Title "Motives unperceived." that occasions [the great difference of sentiment
compassion in favour of the persons guilty of this crime
in preference to those guilty of murder at large.] At
least no one upon after examination reflecting upon of his own feelings
can deny but that he feels a strong degree of
terror upon the commission of of a crime under the
latter description upon an object a person connected by him
either by affinity neighbourhood or a resemblance
in those circumstances that gave rise to the temptation Instance Murder & at Midd'ex Election one hand — a Child murder on the other — here the Murderer is the in greatest object of
a terror which in the present state of things is kept down in great measure
by the a confidence in the protection of the Laws: but
which if that pressure were removed would expand
itself in the breast to a magnitude of which, we
who lie under an happy inexperience of it, can
form no Idea — This he must allow; & he must
allow on the other hand that nothing of this kind
is felt upon an occasion of the former sort — A

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Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	217	Info in main headings field	childmurder homicide of infants
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