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MOTIVES UNPERCEIVED — Exposition of Infants.

CHILD-MURDER.

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impressions of Nature, much stronger than those of the moral Sense, + + while yet known I should have thought had, by those in whose mouths the expression is found, had been made to include those impressions. we may learn
from that general practise, which prevailed in the most learned & polite
of the world, of exposing their Children, whereby the strong instinctive affction
of Parents for their offspring was violated without remorse."

In this passage these 7 propositions, if I mistake not are more or less explicitly contained —
1st That Custom has power to erase the strongest impressions of Nature:
that these impressions are stronger than, (& consequently distinct from) those of the Moral
Sense — 3dly That this Custom in particular had power to & did erase the an impression of
Nature. 4thly That this Custom is opposite to the Moral Sense. 5thly That this Custom
is either inhuman & unnatural, & perhaps that it is or inhuman & unnatural as well as whimsical and capricious
as those two sets of epithets are predicated of it cumulatively or disjunctively. 6thly That
This Custom owe it's birth to one or other in all of the more violent passions of Fear, Lust, and
Anger. 7thly & lastly that these appetites are opposite to the moral Sense.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	209	Info in main headings field	homicide of infants
Image	001	Titles	motives unperceived
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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