The child in human progress / by George Henry Payne, with a foreword by A. Jacobi ... with 40 illustrations.

  • Payne, George Henry, 1876-1945.
Date:
1916
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The child in human progress / by George Henry Payne, with a foreword by A. Jacobi ... with 40 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XII PAGE 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