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The Child in Human Progress

by George Henry Payne

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Maternal Affection the Beginning of Human Altruism…
  4. 4Chapter II — Human Marriage…
  5. 5Chapter III — The Killing of Twins…
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Drowning of Daughters…
  7. 7Chapter V — Death by Neglect and Sacrifice in Japan…
  8. 8Chapter VI — Mesopotamia the Earliest Civilization Known…
  9. 9Chapter VII — Most Ancient Nation Was Kind to Children…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Children in India…
  11. 11Chapter IX — Semitic Development in Canaan…
  12. 12Chapter X — Hebrew Writers on the Origin of the Religion of Humanity…
  13. 13Chapter XI — Ancient Arabians Were Cannibalistic…
  14. 14Chapter XII — Exposure by a Civilized People…
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Female Children Not Desirable Among Greeks…
  16. 16Chapter XIV — First Recognition of Rights of Children…
  17. 17Chapter XV — Humanitarian Measures of Augustus…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Reforms of Hadrian…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Progress Under the Antonines…
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Pleas of the Christian Fathers
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Conditions Among the Peoples Who Conquered the Roman…
  22. 22Chapter XX — Growth of the Humanitarian Movement Throughout Europe…
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Cruelty to Children in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Rise of Factory System…
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Industrial Conditions in America…
  26. 26Appendix A
  27. 27Appendix B
  28. 28Appendix C
  29. 29Bibliography

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