Spirit of Laws Vol. 2: Including D''alembert''s Analysis of the Work (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Spirit of Laws Vol. 2: Including D''alembert''s Analysis of the Work<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.