"KILLING NO MURDER."
[To TER EDITOR OF TIER "EPROTATOR.1 SIR,—Wbether a criticism of a criticism be worth printing I must leave to you. I do not think either you or a corre- spondent of last week see the point I was trying to bring forward. You had said that none of the apologists of Daisy Lord had looked at the matter "from the point of view, so to speak, of the infant." I believe that to be the point of view which to one familiar with the probable life of the infant might present the greatest temptation. Do we in recognising that minimise the duty of resisting the temptation ? To decide for another that death is better than life is to seek to be as God, knowing good and evil. It is in all ordinary circumstances a sin of presumption, and in the case of an illegitimate infant the aim would lie near other and baser temptations, against which the State is bound to guard. That need not prevent us from recognising such considerations as would ally the act of killing in a mother's heart rather with suicide than murder.—I am, Sir, &c.,
JULIA. WEDGWOOD.
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