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... believe , again very gene- rally abandoned , for a reason which is substantially the same with that Lord Bacon assigns , and which it would be hard to reconcile with the existence of a superfluity of human beings and a deficiency of ...
... believe , again very gene- rally abandoned , for a reason which is substantially the same with that Lord Bacon assigns , and which it would be hard to reconcile with the existence of a superfluity of human beings and a deficiency of ...
Page 257
... believe , intentional ? ) effect of all but annihilating the crime . Precisely the same may be asserted regarding the legislation of ancient Rome in this respect . That , again , confined infanticide to the imperfect and deformed ; and ...
... believe , intentional ? ) effect of all but annihilating the crime . Precisely the same may be asserted regarding the legislation of ancient Rome in this respect . That , again , confined infanticide to the imperfect and deformed ; and ...
Page 370
... believe that the proposition regarding the preventive check is not meant to be confined to the postponement of marriage merely , but that it implies , when its projectors think necessary , its inhibition altogether . This opinion does ...
... believe that the proposition regarding the preventive check is not meant to be confined to the postponement of marriage merely , but that it implies , when its projectors think necessary , its inhibition altogether . This opinion does ...
Contents
V | 38 |
Of the Theory of Human Superfecundity its Geome | 55 |
the Geo | 78 |
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