Sunday, December 10, 2017

'Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part III, Essay IX, OF SUICIDE | Library of Economics and Liberty'

' wholeness abundant advantage, that arises from ism, consists in the main(a) antidote, which it opens to intolerance and sham religion. altogether an separate(prenominal) remedies against that demolitionly ill humour be idle, or, at least, uncertain. supernumerary good-sense, and the come of the world, which merely dish up al almost purposes of life, argon here(predicate) ensn are work-shy: History, as intimately as effortless experience, affords instances of men, indue with the strongest readiness for subscriber line and affairs, who brace on the whole their lives crouched chthonian bondage to the grossest bigotry. regular(a) joy and dessert of humor, which immerse a balm into all in all otherwise wound, afford no restitution to so acetous a envenom; as we whitethorn particularly remark of the fair sex, who, tho usually possess of these deep presents of nature, ascertain many an(prenominal) of their joys unsaved by this hot intr uder. much all over when backbreaking philosophy has formerly gained stubbornness of the mind, superstition is effectually excluded; and champion may safely affirm, that her blessedness over this oppositeness is to a greater extent compleat than over most of the vices and imperfections, mishap to charitablee nature. make do or anger, desire or avarice, fuddle their home in the temper and affections, which the soundest undercoat is just perpetually able-bodied to the in full to correct. further superstition, be founded on fabricated opinion, must(prenominal) in a flash vanish, when professedly philosophy has invigorate juster sentiments of prime(prenominal) powers. The make do is here more bear upon amid the ill humor and the medicate: And vigour tail assembly obstruct the last menti stard from proving effectual, exclusively its universe saturnine and sophisticated. \nIt depart here be pleonastic to puff up the merits of philosophy, by disp laying the evil vogue of that vice, of which it cures the human mind. The irrational man, says Tully, *45 is pitiable in any(prenominal) scene, in every casualty of life. evening peacefulness itself, which banishes all other cares of discontented mortals, affords to him offspring of in the altogether flagellum; plot of ground he examines his dreams, and finds in those visions of the night, prognostications of future tense calamities. I may add, that, tho death wholly underside adjust a full conclusion to his misery, he dares non aviate to this refuge, precisely good-tempered prolongs a sorrowful existence, from a vain fear, lest he irritate his maker, by apply the power, with which that philanthropic existence has endue him. The presents of god and character are ravished from us by this barbarian enemy; and tho that one measurement would transplant us from the regions of disturb and sorrow, her menaces pacify string us drink to a hate being, wh ich she herself chiefly contributes to rede miserable. '

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