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INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES. 173
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XXXIIL—INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS
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* , About one-fourth of all the children...
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E Across The Breezy Channel, Across The ...
-the knell for lier passing * soul , and they press me down , and hold me tightly to the earthweighing on nie with deadening weight ,
and that horrible seems to utterance say : ' Nabonassar , , slowly rung was at the each son of stroke Pul , into and my Higg ear ins ,
was a noble Roman . Nabonassar was , ding , dong , ding , Nabonassar wasdingdongthe son of Pulding , dong , clash , and Higgins ,
ding , , dong , , and , Higgins was a , noble , ding , dong , ding , a noble Roman' dingdongclash . "
,, , Struggling with the bells I awoke . It was no passing knell , it was only my little French clock chiming twelve . And no wonder I
dreamed my spectacles were gone ! There they are lying broken Inside the fender ! I shall never get such a pair again . Well , 'tis
useless grieving ; I had better go to bed . But instead of seeking my own room , I turn first to the nursery ,
where lie the four placid sleepers around whom my dreaming fancies have woven so dark a web .
And first to the little bed where she lay , the youngest . The rests silken on curls the wave tiny hand over the the p parted illow in lips a shower murmur of in gold sleep , the , " rosy dearl cheek y ! '
Yes , dearly my child , , very dearly . How can I turn away without a blessing and a prayer , and may
be a tear as well ? I must see . them all .
Poor Meg with her little pert nose stuck firmly into the pillow , my clever Florence with her broad white brow , and quiet Mary .
And so good night , darlings ; God bless you all , and save you from
the fate your old father dreamed .
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* , About One-Fourth Of All The Children...
* , About one-fourth of all the children born in this civilized country ; perish miserably in the first year of their existence . No such
mortality can be observed amongst the young of our domestic animals . More favoured than the lord of creation himself , the
horse , the cow , and the dog , pass through the stages of immaturity comparatively unscathed . It is impossible that such lavish
_exjDenditure of life , in its most important and exalted form , was intended by the Creator . It would seem that while simple instinct proved
an infallible guide to the lower animals in the preservation of their youngthe free agency of man caused an indifference to the
strongest of , all natural obligations , and that the results of apathy and ignorance are mistaken for those of an inevitable law .
The young of different creatures are very differently provided
against external injury . This difference always bears strict rela-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/29/
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