der of Multitudes of Children, Victims to the Poverty of their Parents, or the barbarous Baſhfulneſs of their Mothers; or in fine by the Mutilation of thoſe Wretches, Part of whoſe Exiſtence, with that of their whole Poſterity, is ſacrificed to vain ſing-ſong, or, which is ſtill worſe, the brutal Jealouſy of ſome other Men: A Mutilation, which, in the laſt Caſe, is doubly outragious to Nature by the Treatment of thoſe who ſuffer it, and by the Service to which they are condemned. But what if I undertook to ſhew the Human Species attacked in its very Source, and even in the holieſt of all Ties, in forming which Nature is never liſtened to 'till Fortune has been conſulted, and civil Diſorder confounding all Virtue and Vice, Continency becomes a criminal Precaution, and a Refuſal to give Life to Beings like one's ſelf, an Act of Humanity: but I muſt not tear open the Veil which hides ſo many Horrors; it is enough that I have pointed out the Diſeaſe, ſince it is the Buſineſs of others to apply a Remedy.
Let us add to this the great Number of unwholeſome Trades which abridge Life, or de-
