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The origin and development of the moral ideas

Note 84 — Chapter XVII · THE KILLING OF PARENTS, SICK PERSONS, CHILDREN—FETICIDE

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Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, iii. 394, 480 (South American Indians). Dapper says (Africa, p. 473) that no twins are ever found in the country of Benin, because the people considered it a great dishonour to give birth to twins.

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