1818 Jan y 7

Not Paul

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III. Doctrine

Ch Asceticism

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§ Other checks

6 Suicide

The mechanic / labourer / or manufacturer who for little wages engages in an

occupation under which it is known that no life ever lasted beyond a certain small

number of years is he a suicide?

If among all these men there be not so much as one suicide, surely there are some

who bear to that sort of name[?] no slight resemblance whose case compared with his

is at / which if measured with his will be seen to be at / no great distance.

If the sin of the suicide be as some will have it, be as not admitting of / being

the last / repentance the most sinful of all sins, at any rate / surely / the case of

these other men can not in any instance be wholly guiltless:―quære in each case the

place of it in the scale of sinfulness.