The Causes of Suicide.
♦ 'uj ■'■': The Episcopal Register comments on a well-known fact in relation to a large 1 n amber of suieies at the present day. It says: — 'fThe growth ot scepticism, 1 fidelity i and atheism, is concomitant with' the increase of BuicioVs which shows utter despair of any hope of happiness o; % comfort in our' present state of existence, and ignorance of a future life. The records of the daily journals! present man.y cases of individuals who hink that life is not endurable, and who do not comprehend the enormity of self-murder. That there is an incalcalably greater amount of Enlightenment in the world at the present titna than* existed in past ages is not * disputed ;: and ic is a remarkable fact that, in that
cbaatry of Europe which has produoflJ riiany of the grandest scientific minds, and in which intellectual culture of the •ighest onier ia be&t appreciated, the nonaber of those who abandon hope and resort to self-destruction is the greatest.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 218, 18 August 1883, Page 2
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