rhetorical analysis
Logos is displayed when the author says “I calculate there may be about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract 30,000 couple who are able to maintain their own children . . . there remain 170,00 breeders. I again subtract 50,000 for those women who miscarry.” By using numbers in calculating the number of children on the streets, he shows logic. He also shows logos when he says, “a child just dropped from its dam may be supported by [their mother's] milk for a solar year, with little other nourishment.” He is straightforward and explains that a mother can support their child naturally for a year. He uses pathos when saying, “three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms.” He paints a heartbreaking picture of children struggling. Also, when he says, “it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their . . . children”. This evokes an emotional response from those who are against abortion, and says, “Hey, my idea saves kids from this”. He uses ethos when he says, “[it] would deserve so well of the public as to have his statute set up for a preserver of the nation”. This makes it seem as though he is just a civil servant, trying to make things the best he can for the nation. He seems to be saying, “You can trust me”. Finally, when he says, “I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection”. He comes across stately and subdued, like someone you could