MORAL PHYSIOLOGY BY RALPH GLOVER, M.D. [Illustration: Alas! that it ever should have been born.] OWEN’S MORAL PHYSIOLOGY: OR, A BRIEF AND PLAIN TREATISE ON THE POPULATION QUESTION. SECOND EDITION, WITH ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS, BY RALPH GLOVER, M.D. “The principle of utility is the foundation of the present work.” _Bentham on Morals and Legislation._ NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY R. GLOVER, 2 ANN-ST. 1846. ENTERED According to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, BY RALPH GLOVER, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of the State of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS EXPLANATION OF FRONTISPIECE. EDITOR’S PREFACE. PREFACE. INTRODUCTION. MORAL PHYSIOLOGY. CHAPTER II. STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT. CHAPTER III. THE QUESTION EXAMINED IN THE ABSTRACT. CHAPTER IV. THE QUESTION IN ITS CONNEXION WITH POLITICAL ECONOMY. CHAPTER V. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED IN ITS SOCIAL BEARINGS. CHAPTER VI. THE SUBJECT CONSIDERED IN ITS IMMEDIATE CONNEXION WITH PHYSIOLOGY. CHAPTER VII. ADDITIONAL REMARKS. CHAPTER VIII. TO THE MARRIED OF BOTH SEXES IN GENTEEL LIFE. CHAPTER IX. THE PURPOSES AND OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIAGE. CHAPTER X. CONCLUDING REMARKS. EXPLANATION OF FRONTISPIECE. The frontispiece which accompanies this treatise, represents a poor mother abandoning her infant, at the gate of the Hôtel des Enfans trouvés, (Foundling Hospital) at Paris. The original painting, from which this is a faithful copy, is by Vigneron, a French artist of celebrity; it was purchased at the price of one thousand dollars for the Galerie Royale, and is now in the possession of the French king. The Hôtel des Enfans trouvés, than which a more humane institution was never founded, exhibits, in its every arrangement, order, economy, and, above all, a beautiful tenderness of the feelings of those poor creatures who are thus compelled to avail themselves, for their offspring, of the asylum it affords. No obtrusive observation is made, no unfeeling question asked: the infant charge is received in silence, and either trained and supported until maturity, or, if circumstances, at any subsequent period, enable the parents to claim their offspring, it is restored to their care.