Which phrase from the proposal is an example of understatement? O

A. The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one

million and a half...

O

B. [I]t is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to

censure such a practice ſeating children], (although indeed very

unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty...

O

C. Mothers ... sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to

avoid the expence than the shame, which would move tears and

pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.

D. The question therefore is, How this number (of children] shall be

reared, and provided for?