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7 Medico-Legal J. 1 (1889-1890)

handle is hein.journals/medlejo7 and id is 1 raw text is: THE INSANITY OF CHILD-BIRTH IN ITS RE LATION TO INFANTICIDE.* By EDWARD M. IIvzE1R, ESQ., of the Janesville Bar, Wis. 'Vanity and insanity are to be measured by differ- ences or changes of habit, taste or disposition. As civilization advances, general rules become prim- arily and comparatively of less importance, and greater attention is given to particular instances. The inductive method of reasoning has led to more careful investigation, definition and classification of par- ticular facts. This method has led us to particularize and has taught the great importance of the smallest fact. Facts have become dignified, and we have come to re- spect and appreciate their great importance in the deter- mination of all questions. In the infancy of government, general rules were thought sufficiently jusbto be applicable to all instances, and all acts were measured by them without reference to the factual peculiarities of the individual cases. Rights of persons were considered justly determined by a reference to the govermental generalizations, of which only, early society was capable. But, as we advance, the tendency of society is to ap- proach more nearly to individual justice. Individuals, as we come to divide, define and classify like facts, assume a greater importance. *Read before the Medico-Legal bociety, April 10, 1889. This paper received the third prize in the year 1888, from the Committee of the Medico-Legal Society.

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