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The Generous Projector, or a friendly proposal to prevent murder and other enormous abuses, by erecting an hospital for foundlings and bastard-children.

An argument attributed to Daniel Defoe that proposes the building of a foundling hospital to mitigate the problems of over population in the eighteenth century.

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The Generous Projector, or a friendly proposal to prevent murder and other enormous abuses, by erecting an hospital for foundlings and bastard-children.