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HOMICIDE - of Infants [BR][8] CHILD MURDER
MOTIVES UNPERCEIVED — Exposition of Infants
A striking confirmation and it should seem a satisfactory instance exemplification of the truth of this proposition, The truth of this proposition is exemplified in a striking, and as it should seem satisfactory instance that
reasons may influence exercise a real tho' unperceived influence on the minds of men, + tho' unperceived by themselves + notwithstanding those very men do not perceive it
is to be taken met with in from the practise authorized by the institutions Laws of among so many intelligent & polished
of parents exposing new born children to death at pleasure — Now I say 1st that the conduct of the
respective legislators was governed in the establishment or permission of this was
governed by this consideration reason that what the mischief I have called the mischief of the 2d & 3d
orders is wanting in the murders; to such killings portions which as I have shewn compose in almost
the whole of the aggregate mass of mischief resulting from that crime: + + the small over-plus (what they want of doing so, bury only that which affects population, as which which it was not any part of the ordinary policy of those nations to encourage & the remaining portion slight small as it is in comparison with those others is what they were not [ordinarily] accustomed to regard consider as so being. 2d and yet of this
reason they were not aware
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