View but an army at the sacking of a town, and see what observation or sense of moral principles, or what touch of conscience for all the outrages they do.

Robberies, murders, rapes, are the sports of men set at liberty from punishment and censure.

Have there not been whole nations, and those of the most civilized people, amongst whom the exposing their children, and leaving them in the fields to perish by want or wild beasts has been the practice; as little condemned or scrupled as the begetting them?
Do they not still, in some countries, put them into the same graves with their mothers, if they die in childbirth; or despatch them, if a pretended astrologer declares them to have unhappy stars?
And are there not places where, at a certain age, they kill or expose their parents, without any remorse at all?
In a part of Asia, the sick, when their case comes to be thought desperate, are carried out and laid on the earth before they are dead; and left there, exposed to wind and weather, to perish without assistance or pity.

It is familiar among the Mingrelians, a people professing Christianity, to bury their children alive without scruple.

There are places where they eat their own children.