ENGL 104W Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: A Modest Proposal, Tropical Year, George Psalmanazar
16 Sep 2016
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It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets/roads/cabin doors crowded w/beggars of the female-sex followed by. 3, 4, or 6 children: all in rags, importuning every passenger for an alms. There is likewise another great advantage in the writer"s scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children: and, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babies. More to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast. The # of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned 1. 5mil, of these there may be about 200k couples whose wives are breeders: then, subtract 30k couples who are able to maintain their own children. Cannot employ them in handicraft or agriculture (can"t build houses (the country) or cultivate land)
