Peru: Physical Features, Natural Resources, Means Of Communication, Manufactures And Industrial Development

From birth they know no father or mother love, they know not the meaning of the word home; they are taught that they are only suffered to live until they can demonstrate by their physique and ferocity that they are fit to live. Should they prove deformed or defective in any way they are promptly shot; nor do they see a tear shed for a single one of the many cruel hardships they pass through from earliest infancy. I do not mean that the adult Martians are unnecessarily or intentionally cruel to the young (я не имею в виду, что взрослые марсиане излишне или намеренно жестоки по отношению к молодым; unnecessary — ненужный, излишний), but theirs is a hard and pitiless struggle for existence upon a dying planet (но их /жизнь/ — это тяжелая и безжалостная борьба за выживание на умирающей планете), the natural resources of which have dwindled to a point (природные ресурсы которой истощились до такой степени; to dwindle — сокращаться, истощаться) where the support of each additional life (что поддержание каждой дополнительной жизни) means an added tax upon the community into which it is thrown (означает дополнительное бремя для общины, в которую он попал; tax — налог; бремя, испытание; to throw — направлять, посылать) ...»