 | John Venn - 1866 - 418 דפים
...this singular crime, it is surely an astonishing fact, that all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion, and can leave no doubt...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances. In a given state of society a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life*. This is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 דפים
...undergo any marked change. These, actions are only tbe product of the general condition of society; and the individual felon only carries into effect what...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances. In a given state of society, a certain number of persons most, tor instance, put an end to their own... | |
 | 1866 - 802 דפים
...causes us to put upon one of Buckle's most positive statements about suicide ! We may admit, as he says, that suicide is merely ' the product of the general condition of society,' but we can neither allowthat it holds a fixed average, nor deserves the title of a ' general law.'... | |
 | 1868 - 852 דפים
...conditions of society. Mr. Buckle, in his History of Civilization in England, says that the evidence points " to one great conclusion, and can leave no...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances. In a given state of society a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 דפים
...from his supposed laws of necessity, ' is merely the product of the general condition of society, and the individual felon only carries into effect what...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances. In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life.' — (Vol.... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1873 - 326 דפים
...own lives ; ' adding that ' the question as to who shall commit the crime depends upon special laws,' and that ' the individual felon only carries into...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.' In other words, it is not the amount of crime that depends upon the number of persons prepared to commit... | |
 | John Venn - 1876 - 526 דפים
...this singular crime, it is surely an astonishing fact, that all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion, and can leave no doubt...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances. In a given state of society a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life1. This is... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1882 - 292 דפים
...astonishing fact that all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion. . . . that suicide is merely the product of the general condition of society. . . . In a given state of society, a given number of persons must put an end to their own life. This... | |
 | 1882 - 630 דפים
...astonishing fact that all the evidence we possess respecting it, points to one great conclusion . . . . that suicide is merely the product of the general condition of society In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1882 - 292 דפים
...astonishing fact that all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion. . . . that suicide is merely the product of the general condition of society. . . . In a given state of society, a given number of persons must put an end to their own life. This... | |
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These being the peculiarities of this singular crime, it is surely an astonishing fact, that all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion, and can leave no doubt on our minds that suicide is merely the product of the general... 
