ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry | [Frontispiece] |
| Founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | |
| Native East African Mother and Infant | [17] |
| (Courtesy of Museum of Natural History, New York) | |
| A Well-Cared for Eskimo Infant | [17] |
| (Courtesy of Museum of Natural History, New York) | |
| Family Life among Birds. Group of American Egret | [20] |
| (Courtesy of Museum of Natural History, New York) | |
| A Family of Anthropoid Apes, from a Drawing by Dan Beard | [24] |
| (Courtesy of Museum of Natural History, New York) | |
| Family of Polar Bears | [24] |
| (Courtesy of Museum of Natural History, New York) | |
| Primitive Family Life among the Hopi Indians | [28] |
| (Courtesy of the Museum of Natural History, New York) | |
| A Hindu Child-Mother, whose Cares will Make her Old at Thirty | [42] |
| Zulu Girl with Baby. The Practice of Exposure Ended among the Zulus only within the Present Generation | [42] |
| Special Repository for Bodies of Neglected Babies, China | [56] |
| (Reproduced from “China in Decay”) | |
| An Overburdened Chinese Child Carrying more than his Weight in Tea | [69] |
| (Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.) | |
| “Little Mothers”—the One Five, the Other Eight, Years Old—China | [69] |
| Tsuchi-Ningio. Clay Figure Substituted for Human Sacrifice—Japan | [80] |
| (Reproduced from “Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society,” Volume I) | |
| Crock Containing Remains of Sacrificed Child. Unearthed at Tell Ta’Annek | [80] |
| (Reproduced from “Life in Ancient Egypt”) | |
| A Pomeioc Chieftain’s Wife and Child | [94] |
| (From the Original Water-Colour Drawing in the British Museum by John White, Governor of Virginia in 1587) | |
| Eskimo Mother Carrying Infant in her Hood | [94] |
| (From the Original Water-Colour Drawing in the British Museum by John White, Governor of Virginia in 1587) | |
| Isis in the Papyrus Swamps, Suckling Horus | [106] |
| (Reproduced from “The Gods of the Egyptians, or Studies in Egyptian Mythology”) | |
| Group of M’ayptah, the Priest of Ptah, with his Family | [110] |
| (Reproduced from “Life in Ancient Egypt”) | |
| Letter of Illarion, an Egyptian Labourer, to Alis, His Wife. Papyrus Written at Alexandria, 17 June, 1 b.c. | [118] |
| (Reproduced from “Light from the Ancient East”) | |
| Florida Women Sacrificing their First-Born Children | [122] |
| (From an Old Print) | |
| The Incas Offering a Human Sacrifice to their Chief | [144] |
| (From “Mœurs des Sauvages Amériquains,” by P. Lafitau, Paris, 1724) | |
| American Savages Substituting an Animal for a Human Sacrifice | [144] |
| (From “Mœurs des Sauvages Amériquains,” by P. Lafitau, Paris, 1724) | |
| Musical Instruments Found in a Child’s Grave, at Tell Ta’Annek | [150] |
| (Reproduced from “Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaft”) | |
| Abraham and Isaac | [158] |
| (From a Painting by J. S. Copley, R. A.) | |
| A Notable Case of Abandonment—the Finding of Moses | [160] |
| (After Painting by Schopin) | |
| Blind Boys at Drill in “The Light House,” New York City | [200] |
| The Finding of Romulus and Remus | [225] |
| (From an Old Print) | |
| Antoninus Pius, Consecrator of the World’s First Protective Foundation Benefit for Girls | [236] |
| Constantine the Great, Emperor-Protector of the Roman Child | [236] |
| The Sacrificing of Living Infants to the God Moloch | [238] |
| “Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me” | [258] |
| (After Overbeck) | |
| The Holy Family | [272] |
| (After Rubens) | |
| (Reproduced by Permission of Museum of Art, New York) | |
| Evening Recreation Centre for Boys, New York City | [282] |
| Meeting of an “Evening Centre,” New York City | [282] |
| Filling Christmas Baskets for Poor Children—Mothers’ Helping-Hand Club, New York City | [297] |
| Saint Vincent de Paul, Founder of the First Permanent Asylum for Children in France | [298] |
| A Healthy Pair of Indian Children, Western Canada | [318] |
| Infant Toilers in a Silk Mill, Syria | [318] |
| (Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.) | |
| Children of Two Families—As the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Found them | [333] |
| The Same Families—After Attention from the Society | [333] |
| Henry Bergh | [336] |
| The “Inspiration” of Henry Bergh on which the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was Organized | [336] |
| The Juvenile Court, New York City; Justice Wyatt on the Bench | [337] |
History of the Child
CHAPTER I
MATERNAL AFFECTION THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN ALTRUISM—SYMPATHY AND PARENTAL LOVE THE BASIS OF OTHER VIRTUES—THE WEAKEST SACRIFICED IN ALL PRIMITIVE SOCIETY—NEGLECTED CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE ATTITUDE OF SOCIETY TOWARD CHILDREN.