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OF CONFUCIUS—"BEGINNING" OF INFANTI-
CIDE 200 B.C.-REFORMS OF THE EMPEROR
CHOENTCHE AND THE MANCHUS IN THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY-DECREES REDUC-
ING THE COST OF WEDDING GIFTS IN ORDER
TO STOP PARENTS FROM KILLING FEMALE
CHILDREN
46
CHAPTER V
DEATH BY NEGLECT AND SACRIFICE IN JAPAN-
THE NEW-BORN TABOO—Myth OF THE
EXPOSURE OF THE CHILD OF THE GODS-
GROWTH OF THE MARRIAGE CUSTOM—The
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINESE–MODERN CAN-
NIBALISM–MODERN LAWS ON THE SALE OF
71
CHAPTER VI
MESOPOTAMIA THE EARLIEST
EARLIEST CIVILIZATION
KNOWN-FAINT TRACES OF CHILD-SACRI-
FICE-LAWS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
CENSUS FIGURES IN STONES—CODE OF
HAMMURABI-THE STORY OF SARGON
90
CHAPTER VII
Most ANCIENT NATION WAS KIND TO CHILDREN
-ECONOMIC PRESSURE BROUGHT No
SPECIAL CRUELTY-PICTURE OF THE PRO-
LETARIAT-ABJURATIONS OF THE OLDEST
BOOK IN THE WORLD - EGYPTIANS AS SEEN
BY DIODORUS SICULUS-DEGENERATING
EFFECT OF GREEK SUPREMACY
106
CHILDREN IN INDIA-STORY OF THE MAHA-
BHARATA-FEMALE CHILD DESPISED-A
HUNDRED Cows THE PRICE OF A SON
RECORDS LEFT BY HISTORIANS OF ALEX-
ANDER'S CONQUEST-ATTEMPTS BY BRITISH
GOVERNMENT TO CHECK INFANTICIDE-
WORK OF JONATHAN DUNCAN AND COL.
ALEXANDER WALKER
CHAPTER IX
SEMITIC DEVELOPMENT IN CANAAN-SACRIFICE
OF THE FIRST-BORN PERSISTS-ORIGIN OF
THE IDEA OF SACRIFICE—THE CUSTOM
WORLD-WIDE AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES-
ASSOCIATED WITH CANNIBALISM—THE
FOUNDATION SACRIFICE-DISCOVERIES IN
PALESTINE
138
CHAPTER X
HEBREW WRITERS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE
RELIGION OF HUMANITY-CHILD SACRIFICE
CONDEMNED IN THE STORY OF ISAAC-CIR-
CUMCISION SUBSTITUTED-REVERSION TO
BARBARIC HABITS IN CANAAN-TRIUMPH OF
THE PROPHETS
157
.
CHAPTER XI
ANCIENT ARABIANS WERE CANNIBALISTIC-
DAUGHTERS TOO EXPENSIVE TO REAR-
CONDITIONS BEFORE THE COMING OF THE
PROPHET—THE INJUNCTIONS OF MOHAM-
MED—His LAWAS FOUND IN “AL HIDAYA”. 169
CHAPTER XII
EXPOSURE BY A CIVILIZED PEOPLE–LACK OF
HUMANITY AMONG THE GREEKS—THEIR
MYTHOLOGY AN EVIDENCE-CHILDREN IN
HOMER.
184
CHAPTER XIII
FEMALE CHILDREN NOT DESIRABLE AMONG
GREEKS-PRECAUTIONS FOR SAVING Ex-
POSED CHILDREN-ORNAMENTS AS A
MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION-ADOPTION
UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES
199
CHAPTER XIV
FIRST RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS OF CHILDREN-
LAWS OF ROMULUS AND OF NUMA POMPILIUS
-THE TWELVE TABLES—ATTITUDE OF
PARENTS SHOWN IN TERENCE-PATRIA
POTESTAS SPARINGLY USED
209
CHAPTER XV
HUMANITARIAN MEASURES OF AUGUSTUS-LIFE
IN THE IMPERIAL CITY-FIRST ATTEMPTS
OF THE STATE TO CHECK INFANTICIDE-
TRAJAN AND THE VELEIA LOAN—STOIC
SPIRIT IN PLINY'S CHARITY
223
CHAPTER XVI
REFORMS OF HADRIAN-PUNISHMENT OF
FATHERS-VALERIUS MAXIMUS-FAVOUR-
ITE STREETS IN ROME FOR LEAVING ABAN-
DONED CHILDREN-MUTILATING CHILDREN
FOR PROFIT
236
PAGB
CHAPTER XVII
PROGRESS UNDER THE ANTONINES-FAUSTINA'S
EFFORTS TO SAVE FEMALE CHILDREN-
CHRISTIAN SextIMENT GROW-PLEA OF
LACTANTIUS-ITS EFFECTS-CONSTANTINE. 245
CHAPTER XVIII
PLEAS OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS
257
CHAPTER XIX
CONDITIONS AMONG THE PEOPLES WHO CON-
QUERED THE ROMAN EMPIRE-IRISH SACRI-
FICED FIRST-BORN—THE WERGELD—THE
SALIC LAW-CODE OF THE VISIGOTHS ON
EXPOSED CHILDREN—THEODORIC AND CAS-
SIODORUS
272
CHAPTER XX
GROWTH OF THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THROUGHOUT EUROPE-IN THE DARK AGES
-CHURCH TAKES UP THE HUMANITARIAN
WORK IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY-SALE OF
CHILDREN COMMON-STORY OF SAINT
BATHILDE_CHILDREN SOLD FOR FATHER's
DEBTS-DATHEUS THE FIRST TO OFFER
CHILDREN A HOME-APPEAL OF РОРЕ
INNOCENT III.
287
CHAPTER XXI
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN IN THE SIXTEENTH AND
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY—ATTEMPT AT
REGULATION-DEFORMING CHILDREN FOR
MOUNTEBANK PURPOSES—ANECDOTE OF
CHAPTER XXII
Rise OF FACTORY SYSTEM—THE CHILD A
CHARGE ON THE STATE_CHILDREN ACTU-
ALLY SLAVES UNDER FACTORY SYSTEM-
REFORM OF 1833—OASTLER AGAINST THE
CHILD SLAVERY—"JUVENILE LABOUR IN
FACTORIES IS A NATIONAL BLESSING"
312
CHAPTER XXIII
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN AMERICA-PROTEC-
TION FOR ANIMALS— FOUNDING OF THE
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY
TO CHILDREN_SPREAD OF THE MOVEMENT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD-ORIGIN IN
NEW YORK CITY
332
APPENDIX A-NAPOLEONIC DECREE OF I811
341
APPENDIX B-CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
of the New YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PRE-
VENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
346
APPENDIX C-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN
349
INDEX
361