On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

rather, we want to restrict ourselves now only to speaking of the causes of frequent suicide.

Here, then, that which is grounded in the lack of an early, strong, religious upbringing announces itself as an important and deep-seated cause. The eternal truth cannot be repeated enough: that as a rule, what the child is, the man also becomes; that the impressions which man absorbs in early childhood and youth carry over into mature age; and that the inclinations involuntarily cherished in the first years of life, if they found nourishment then, transform themselves after the full development of the intellect into free expression of will. If we educate our children, who have grown into the capacity for thought,