Indian infanticide: its origin, progress, and suppression / By John Cave Brown, M.A., Assistant-Chaplain, Bengal Establishment.

Date:
1857
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Credit: Indian infanticide: its origin, progress, and suppression / By John Cave Brown, M.A., Assistant-Chaplain, Bengal Establishment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PBEFACE. Vll philanthropic, movement then going on, that he consented, at the solicitation of a friend, to prepare for an English periodical an account of that meeting, prefaced by a slight sketch of the whole subject. But the work he had thus undertaken, under the impulse of the moment, he found far more difficult than he had at first antici- pated. Comparatively ignorant of the social bearings of the subject, and finding himself perpetually at fault in tracing out its history, he realised the truth of the quaint remark of good Bishop Andrewes, that emptying pre- supposes filling, and found that if he wished to make the subject intelligible and interesting to others, he must first arrive at a tolerably clear conception of it himself. Thus he was induced to study the subject carefully in all its various phases, and to collect from every available source such information as might be brought to bear on its elucidation. Such spare time as he could command from his more direct clerical duties was devoted to it; and thus was he imperceptibly led on, by the insight (slight though it were) which he was daily gaining into the social system and the history of the Hindoos, until his contemplated Sketch assumed such ominous propor- tions as to make its admission into any periodical quite impossible. By the end of 1854, he had completed what now constitutes the first four chapters of the present work, relating to the measures adopted in Bombay and Raj-