hild born of the same mother to be buried
alive.[953] In Kabre (Togo) there is a large population and
little food. The people often sell their own children, or kidnap
others, which they sell in order to provide for their own.[954]
The Vadshagga put to death illegitimate children and those whose
upper incisors come first. The latter, if allowed to live, would
be parricides.[955] On the Zanzibar coast weak and deformed
children are exposed. The Catholic mission saved many, but the
natives then exposed more to get rid of them.[956] The Hottentots
expose female twins.[957] The Kabyls put to death all children
who are illegitimate, incestuous, or adulterine. If the mother
should spare the infant she would insure her own death.[958]
There is said to be no infanticide in Cambodia.[959] "Widows
among the Moghiahs [a criminal tribe of central India] are
allowed to remarry. The murder of female infants has, therefore,
never prevailed amongst them."[960] The Chinese on Formosa
practice female infanticide, "in cases of a succession of girls
in a family." "The aborigines, both civilized and savage, looked
with horror upon the Chinese for their inhumanity in this
respect." They brought the custom from China, where in the
overpopulated southeastern provinces it is current custom.[961]
The Khonds of India are a poor, isolated hill tribe, who put
female infants to death because they regard marriage in the same
tribe as incest.[962] All tribes in their status who refuse to
practice endogamy have a peculiar problem to deal with.
Wilkins[963] says that six sevenths of the population of India
have for ages practiced female infanticide. Buddhism is declared
to be inhuman and antisocial. It palliates everything which is
done to limit population--polygamy and infanticide in China,
concubinage in Japan, and prostitution in both. It started and
developed in countries which had for generations suffered from
overpopulation, with its regular consequences of famine,
pestilence, and war.[964]

+327. Revolt against infanticide.+ The ancient Egyptians
revolted, in their mores, against infanticide and put an end to
it.[965] Strabo[966] thought it a peculiarity of the Egyptians
that every child must be reared. The Greeks regarded infanticide
as the necessary and simply proper way to deal with a problem
which could not be avoided. Dissent wa