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 of Multitudes of Children, Victims to the Poverty of their Parents, or the barbarous Bahfulnes of their Mothers; or in fine by the Mutilation of thoe Wretches, Part of whoe Exitence, with that of their whole Poterity, is acrificed to vain ing-ong, or, which is till wore, the brutal Jealouy of ome other Men: A Mutilation, which, in the lat Cae, is doubly outragious to Nature by the Treatment of thoe who uffer it, and by the Service to which they are condemned. But what if I undertook to hew the Human Species attacked in its very Source, and even in the holiet of all Ties, in forming which Nature is never litened to 'till Fortune has been conulted, and civil Diorder confounding all Virtue and Vice, Continency becomes a criminal Precaution, and a Refual to give Life to Beings like one's elf, an Act of Humanity: but I mut not tear open the Veil which hides o many Horrors; it is enough that I have pointed out the Dieae, ince it is the Buines of others to apply a Remedy.

Let us add to this the great Number of unwholeome Trades which abridge Life, or