SuicideD.H. Berdine, 1877 - 27 pages |
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Page 10 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveler returns, puzzles the will. And makes us rather bear the ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 23 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. 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 law is so irresistible, that neither the love of life nor the fear of another world can avail anything towards even checking its operation.
Page 10 - The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. What means this heaviness that hangs upon me ? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses ? Nature, oppressed and harassed out with care, Sinks down to rest.
Page 7 - Henry, while he was standing on the self-same pinnacle, told him that he had himself witnessed it. He said that the unfortunate creature was quite a young girl ; and the first symptom she gave of her senses watering, was excessive mirth.
Page 24 - Just in the same way, the great social law that the moral actions of men are the product not of their volition, but of their antecedents, is itself liable to disturbances which trouble its operation without affecting its truth. And this is quite sufficient to explain those slight variations which we find from year to year in the total amount of crime produced by the same country. Indeed, looking at the fact that the moral world is far...
Page 23 - ... sometimes tardy, from the deity being occupied with such a mass of business, is never entirely remitted, and that the human race was not made the next in rank to himself, in order that they might be degraded like brutes. And, indeed, this constitutes the great comfort in this imperfect state of man, that even the deity cannot do everything-. For he cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
Page 23 - Suicide is the last term, the highest expression of man's liberty. It is the most energetic protest of the superiority of his nature. Why have not animals ever conceived suicide ? Because their nature is every-way passive. They have not the choice and the preference. Man, on the contrary, eminently active and free, has been able to push his activity even to the destruction of himself.
Page 13 - To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward ; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
Page 16 - The God who holds over us a sovereign power, will not allow us to quit this life without his permission ; but when He has caused a just desire to do so to spring up within us, then the truly wise man should pass with pleasure from the gloom of this world to the celestial light.