On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

endured torment. Hence the trust with which the farmer, even after several years of crop failure, scatters his seed into the furrows and counts on the harvest; hence the patience with which the citizen endures under the disgrace of war and scarcity and, despite slim prospects, still hopes for a happy peace; hence the resolution of the noble youth and man who, when danger and ruin threaten the fatherland, willingly separates from the domestic hearth and the familiar family and the faithful beloved, in the confident expectation of attaining, in the days of restored external peace, the benefits that are his due, which were promised to him, and for which he endured and went without much,