Suppressed work! On the possibility of limiting populousness : to which is added, the theory of painless extinction / by Marcus.

  • Marcus, active 19th century
Date:
1839
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Credit: Suppressed work! On the possibility of limiting populousness : to which is added, the theory of painless extinction / by Marcus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n.T-0 THE r:eader .53 OF THE FOLLOWING* DIJ&MOZIGMZ' WORM, The veil is at length rent! The curtain, behind which have hitherto lurked the most atrocious conspirators against humanity, has at last been drawn up ! With a false and insidious philanthropy on their lips, they have nourished the most foul and murderous sentiments in their hearts. With the fawning and hypocritical cant of seeking for the safety and peace of society, they have actually plotted, and schemed, and prepared the means of perpetrating the MURDER OF MORE THAN ONE-HALF THE CHILDREN TO BE BORN INTO THE WORLD !—THE ASSASSINATION OF MORE THAN HALF THE FUTURE RACES OF ALL MANKIND. Recoil not, Reader, with a shudder of incredulity, or a start of horror, from an accusation which must appear to you to be necessarily as un¬ founded as it is monstrous! Read the Essay of the Demon Author whose work is now placed in your hands : you will be satisfied that at least owe plotter of this wholesale assassination has fully revealed his frightful criminality to the world ; and we shall give you the convincing proofs that he is hut one member of a handed conspiracy, united in the firm and deliberate design of accomplishing their atrocious object ! With the name of the Almighty and Beneficent Author of the Universe in their mouths, to whose divine providence, with most daring and impious blasphemy, they attribute the having purposely provided and prepared the parts of that machinery which they propose to con¬ struct and employ for the deliberate and cold-blooded murder of thousands and thousands of millions of human beings, whom they intend to immolate during the first sleep of helpless innocence and amid the first smiles of new-born life and love, they have set up anew the modern idols of Moloch and of Mammon, whom they intend'you to worship and propitiate with rites more horrid,-—mysteries more fearful,—. human sacrifices more numerous, more revolting, and more dire, than it sver entered into the wildest and most infuriate imaginations to conceive. But, it is vain to strive for language sufficiently strong to express either the monstrousness of the guilt of these most detestably bad men, or the strength and fervour of the feelings of loathing, of aversion, of abhorrence*, and of indignant resentment, and even inflamed and vindictive vengeance, which their accursed scheme and most flagitiously wicked propositions cannot fail to inspire I Let us endeavour, however, to be sufficiently collected to expose the vile and sanguinary assassins. Assassins! do we say ?—The word does not express either the depth, or the extent, or the atrocity, of their foul and sanguinary crime. Devils themselves, even, have never ]y$m feigned to be suspected of entertaining a design so pro*