Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."Then as to the females, it would, I think, with humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they soon would become breeders themselves: And besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty, which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.
Answer
A
The criticism of the practice would be levied “very unjustly.”
B
Women becoming breeders would be a "loss to the publick."
C
Some people "might be apt to" criticize the practice.