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From J. F. McLennan   30 July 1877

Summary

Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.

Author:  John Ferguson McLennan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 July 1877
Classmark:  DAR 171: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11082