Suicide the Index of Civilisation. Sixty Thousand Suicides a Year in Europe
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | North American Review |
Subjects: | Degeneration, Heredity |
Attributes the cause of suicides 'in the first place, chiefly to heredity. Suicide with some people is a family peculiarity'. Also notes that 'In all the countries of the civilised world men are becoming more and more weary of the burden of life'. | |
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