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that it would not be g sensibly greater than at present. if that
be the case the loss mischief to the state stands clear and uncompensated.
the misery suffering to individuals has been shewn also
to be clear and uncompensated. May I venture at length to come to this conclusion that The subsistent Law therefore inflicting
Death inflicting dea upon the mother who destroys
her child is [an] inexpedient [Law], and that
any other Law inflicting any punishment upon an act of this
sort, (since if Death is inefficacious we may conclude
in this instance that a less punishment would be still more so,)
would be inexpedient likewise.

But to clear up this question still further and to
permitt as little as may to upon conjecture, let us
suppose that if the Law were taken away, Child-Murders
destruction Loss would be sustained by the State by means of would be committed in the way of Child Murder
even exceeding in a certain degree the loss now sustained
by the execution of the Mothers, I should not wonder from the rigid and argumentative manner in which I think myself obliged to treat the subject if I were censured for accused of want of feeling: those who may accuse me little imagine what efforts it has cost me to sensibility from a sense of the errors with which it might induce into my conclusions at Surgeon (and letting
that degree remain in the uncertainty in which it must necessarily
do must remain without experiment tho' after all it is not the most glaring
apprehension could not rate that as exceeding as any thing very considerableevery mother of a Bastard Child that would destroy it) let us
examine + + 1 pleasure in a state not a clear loss as it will be supplied elsewhere as there is a certain point of repletion 1st whether that portion loss whatever it be would be
absolutely clear and uncompensated to the State in any other
manner — & if it were so 2dy 2 and it may be supplied, by the foundling Hospital. the foundling Hospital whether there would be no no milder & more gainful expedient
could be employed to prevent it.

Before I enter upon the first question I must remind
the reader that the object of Legislation is happiness not population. + + any farther than it contributes to it not so much the number numerousness
of persons subjects that might exist, as the happiness of those actually existing
that population simply and abstractedly is no advantage gain the

HOMICIDE — Of Infants [BR][18]

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field	homicide - of infants
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	31222
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