The Spirit of Laws, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Spirit of Laws, Vol. 2: Including D'alembert's Analysis of the Work Among brutes this is an obligation which the mother can generally perform, but it is much more extensive among men. Their children indeed have reason, but this comes only by slow degrees. It is not sufficient to nourish them, we must also di rect them: they can already live, but they cannot govern them selves. Illicit conjunctions contribute but little to the propagation of the species. The father, who is under a natural obligation to nourish and educate his children, is not then fixed, and the mother, with whom the obligation remains, finds a thousand obstacles from shame, remorse, and constraint of her sex and the rigor of laws, and besides, she generally wants the means. Women who have submitted to public prostitution cannot have the convenience of educating their children: the trouble of education is incompatible with their station, and they are so corrupt that they can have no protection from the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.