Yu Zhih

(1809 - 1874)

About the torpor surrounding the issue of infanticide and the need for action, Yu, a scholar and member of the gentry, wrote, “People who refuse to bother about what happens outside their doors often do so on the grounds that they do not want to interfere with the affairs of others. Yet when it comes to saving lives, one should not insist on such principles.” Every year between 1843 and 1853 his Infant Protection Society assisted between sixty and a hundred infants.

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