 | 1858 - 754 pages
...crimes occur annually; and from this it is most strangely assumed as proved, that these crimes are but " the product of the general condition of society, and...certain number of persons must put an end to their own lives. This is the general law ; aud the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...condition of socicty, and that the individual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary condition of preceding circumstances. In a given state of society, a certain number ot persons must nut an end to their own life. This is the general law ; and the special question as... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1861 - 424 pages
...most uniform in their recurrence. " Suicide is merely the product of the general state of society. The individual felon only carries into effect what...number of persons must put an end to their own life !" And yet he admits that the number of suicides in London ranges from 266 to 213, which is a considerable... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1861 - 520 pages
...which they are committed are employed in the same proportion. Suicide also follows some regular law. " In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an eu& to their own^life." In London, about two hundred and forty persons kill themselves every year,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1863 - 532 pages
...reverse of what is here supposed. Speaking of suicide, he declares it to be "a " general law that, in a given state of "society, a certain number of persons " must put an end to their own lives ; " adding that "the question as to who " shall commit the crime depends upon <' special laws,"... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...undergo any marked change. These, actions are only tbe product of the general condition of society; and the individual felon only carries into effect what...given state of society, a certain number of persons most, tor instance, put an end to their own lives. This is the general law; and the special question... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1868 - 852 pages
...conditions of society. Mr. Buckle, in his History of Civilization in England, says that the evidence points " to one great conclusion, and can leave no...persons must put an end to their own life. This is a general law, and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends, of course, upon special... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pages
...from his supposed laws of necessity, ' is merely the product of the general condition of society, and the individual felon only carries into effect what...number of persons must put an end to their own life.' — (Vol. ip 26.) Again, ' Such is some, and only some, of the evidence we now possess respecting the... | |
 | Christoph Ernst Luthardt - 1872 - 600 pages
...quoted to conclude this note, and to show how these things are looked upon from his point of view. ' In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put au end to their own life. This is the general law ; and the special question as to who shall commit... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - Ethics - 1873 - 318 pages
...very reverse of what is here supposed. Speaking of suicide, he declares it to be ' a general law that, in a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own lives ; ' adding that ' the question as to who shall commit the crime depends upon special laws,' and... | |
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This is the general law, and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws ; which however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are all subordinate. And the power of the larger... 
