[166r]

(92

of males in the three cases above given. It does not appear that the Tasmanian & Tahitians who practiced infanticide destroyed many more female than male infants, & though no doubt that [percentage] of their women was easy, there was no marked preponderance & that males over the female sex is to recently existing remnant of the Tasmanians, or in the crossed offspring from the Tahitians now inhabiting Norfolk Island.)

(But what are we to say about the excess of males in the civilised Aryan races of Europe, namely in the proportion of between 104.5 and 108.9 to 100 females; & with the Jews between 113 and 120 to 100 females? The proportion of males could allow certainly be higher if still-born children were included? Then Ethnologists who have attended to the subject are convinced that female infanticide with & polyandry was long ago practiced by the Aryan & sensitive nations of Europe & Western Asia, is the same increase as it is now so largely practiced by savages in all parts of the world. Do we still see the misogyny effects of this practice in the most civilised nations, as