On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

right at the age most capable of comprehension and urges the hardly advanced sons and daughters into the labors of business life. Meanwhile, what can we expect from people who, viewed closely, appear only as crippled beings without strength of soul, despite all other skill and dexterity. Indeed, the person neglected in his youth regarding a strong, religious upbringing does not become a suicide all at once, but we are not surprised when he, for whom a dam against sinful inclination was not firmly established, sinks so deep in troubled circumstances that he arbitrarily puts an end to his life out of weariness.
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