On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

to not perceive the events of life and the fates of peoples as the result of a blind coincidence, but rather to recognize the path of Providence divine guidance with childlike humility; if we urge them early on to strive in their entire conduct for conformity with the moral law within us and the divine commandment outside us, then they are secured by joy and confidence in themselves in the most oppressive and unexpected circumstances; then they stand firm through trust and virtue when others have long since fallen in the pressures of life, and while these linger in the terrible mood where despair threatens to overwhelm, they do not swerve a hand’s