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Infanticide / most certainly a terrible crime in India ; yet it were to be wished that these philanthropists would cast their eyes over the history of the Foundling Hospital in Ireland , supported by such liberal grants of the public money . From the year 1785 to 1798 , inclusive , in the course of thirteen years , 27 , 274 children were received , out of which number 13 , 120 , or nearly one half , perished , and from the table shewing the number admitted from July 1797 to 1798 , and the number
of deaths , no less than 1 , 457 deaths out of 1 , 922 admitted , a result at which humanity must shudder . Since the new regulations , the mortality has been less , and an improvement has been effected in the management of the
Institution , but the deaths among the infants only , from the year ending July 17 © 9 to 1808 , have been 5 , 043 , out of 19 , 638 . O , let these philanthropists who
are exporting their cargoes of fine feelings to India , condescend to look upon and examine thoroughly the whole detail * not only of the aforesaid infanticide
establishment , but of many of our domestic state institutions , meant , no doubt , to alleviate , but which in reality have greatly aggravated the miseries of civilized mankind .
Let them think less of reform abroad , and be more active about it at home , where it is not less wanted than in India . It will not be an easy matter to alter manners and customs of a thousand
or two thousand years , by a missionary society ; nor is it ail likely that the sprinkling of a little water will make the Hindoo prefer the Jordan to the Ganges . The code of Menu , in addition to the
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general and indisputable equity of its civil ordinances , contains a sublime and amiable philosophy , founded on immemorial usage and patriarchal tradition . We have always considered the
proselyting spirit as closely bordering upon the spirit of persecution . If any resistance be made to the self-sufficiency that says , you must take my way to heaven , it is not improbable that in the spleen of
disappointment , it may deem you better fitted for hell , a word once more become the fashion , and sanctioned by the highest autho . rities , as the very bathos of sublime recrimination .
Well — *• Inter ardua regni , '* India takes the lead of Ireland , and Ireland willingly yields the precedence . There is no hurry . After waiting for more than a century , it would be unreasonable not to protract patience for a
fortnight * It is , we allow it , a most grave affair of state , marching , we trust , with slow but assured step , to its triumphant accomplishment * And we pray God , that , in this sabbath of the ytar ^ this recess , ordained by the religion of the state ( as we suppose , ) to awe or to allure the minds of
men from selfish passions , and thus to give a salutary interruption and break to the continuity of worldly occupations , so apt to engross the whole human existence , we pray God , that those statesmen
may employ this holy interval well in purging their minds from prejudice and suspicion , who are responsible to the whole empire for a final decision upon a , subject so interesting to iu present and ultimate welfare . It has been reported that a disagreement prevails in the commit-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/30/
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