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You might thus double the mortality, and we might all marry prematurely without being absolutely starved. His own aim is not to secure the greatest number of births, but to be sure that the greatest number of those born may be supported. The ingenious M. Muret, again, had found a Swiss parish in which the mean life was the highest and the fecundity smallest known.
On the twenty-ninth, colonel Luckner, at the head of the Hanoverian hunters, fell in with a detachment of the enemy, consisting of four hundred men, under the command of count Muret. These he attacked with such vigour, that the count was made prisoner, and all his party either killed or taken, except two-and-twenty, who escaped.
"And you won't forget," he said, looking up suddenly, "to go and see two things the great cemetery at Châlons, and the little 'Cimetière du Mont Muret." He described to me the latter, lying up in what was the main fighting line, and how they had gathered there many of the "unidentifiables" the nameless, shattered heroes of a terrible battle-field, so that they rest in the very ground where they gave their lives.
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