Suicide ; studies on its philosophy, causes, and preventionPutnam, 1882 - 322 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Appendix body Brahmin Brouc's causes of suicide Census of 1870 cent century CHAPTER character child Christian church Cicero cide commit suicide crime declares despair disease divine doctrine domestic troubles dominant train drowned effect emotion Epictetus Epicurean escape evil example facts feeling female France give grief happy hara-kiri Hindu Hist human husband Ibid impulse to suicide increase influence insane irritation kill latter Lisle lives London Love troubles male melancholy ment mental mind moral nature nerve centres nervous number of suicides observed pain Paris philosophy physical Pietro della Vigna population punishment rate of suicide reason relation religion religious Rig-Veda Roman Roman law sacrifice says self-destruction sentiment sexes social society Sophocles soul spirit statistics Stoics subjective temperament suffering suicidal tendency suicide impulse suicide rate suttee tendency to suicide thing tion U. S. Census widows women ΙΟ
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Página 93 - Ask your conscience, my daughter. You have no vocation such as your brother had. You are a wife. You seek to break your ties in self-will and anger, not because the higher life calls upon you to renounce them. The higher life begins for us, my daughter, when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law. That seems hard to you. It is the portal of wisdom, and freedom, and blessedness. And the symbol of it hangs before you. That wisdom is the religion of the cross. And you stand aloof from it:...
Página 50 - But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil ? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Página 30 - Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power.
Página 55 - Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
Página 92 - On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee' which thou knowest to be a Duty ! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.
Página 48 - And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Página 207 - Hashish ; and by this I imply an enjoyment entirely Moral, and by no means sensual, as we might be induced to suppose. This is surely a very curious circumstance, and some remarkable inferences might be drawn from it ; this, for instance, among others — that every feeling of joy and gladness, even when the cause of it is exclusively moral — that those enjoyments which are least connected with material objects, the most spiritual, the most ideal — may...
Página 100 - ... ripest wisdom co-exists with it. And I am at a loss to understand how the Stoic philosophers can presume to say that these are no ills, though at the same time they allow the wise man to commit suicide and pass out of this life if they become so grievous that he cannot or ought not to endure them. But such is the stupid pride of these men who fancy that the supreme good can be found in this life...
Página 284 - Budgell, who was accused of forging a will, and sunk himself in the Thames before the trial of its authenticity came on. " Suppose, sir," said I, " that a man is absolutely sure that if he lives a few days longer he shall be detected in a fraud, the consequence of which will bo utter disgrace and expulsion from society.
Página 48 - Draw thy sword and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me.