1818 Jan y 6

Not Paul

72

III Doctrine

Ch Asceticism

6

Other remedies

§. 2. 6 Infanticide

§. 2. vi Power of breeding-up or not, during early

infancy.

§. 2. vi. On the part of the mother Possession and

exercise of the power of life and death over early infancy

It is in this case in comparison of all the others that the confederated dæmons have

pursued their joint purpose with most savage barbarity and most extensive effect.

Deceived or pretending to be deceived by the external colour of the case, the man of

law has in the scale of punishment raised to the level / pitch / of the most

murderous crimes this innoxious remedy. Child murder is the name / appellative /

which has been fastened upon it: and by this misnomer all the mischiefs / evils /

which attach / are attendant / upon homicide in the / its / most atrocious /

flagitious / of its forms have been and continue to be but too successfully imputed

to an operation purely remedial which is not followed by any one of them.

It is to the mass of evil / evils /, distinguished by Bentham under the name of

evils of the second order that in the case where it is treated as an offence

homicide, like / similar in this to / every other offence against individuals as he

has shewn is indebted for by far the greatest part of its mischievousness /

mischievous effects. JB footnote at this

point: ‘Introd. Dum’. See Introduction to the Principles of

Morals and Legislation, 1996 ( CW), pp. 143-52; Traités de Législation, i. 81-8. ???

Mischief of the second order, composed of / consisting in / danger and alarm: danger, the

probability of the repetition / indefinitely reiterated production / of the like

mischief; alarm, pain of apprehension produced by the prospect

of that danger.