| Samuel Bailey - Psychology - 1855 - 846 pages
...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...of the general condition of society, and that the iadividual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...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 productofthejgeneral condition of society/ ancTChat the individual feIclioiily~cafrres"Tm!cr effect... | |
| WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1858 - 516 pages
...completely dependent on the individual, or so much so. Yet all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion, " and can leave no...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances." Nor is it merely the crimes of men which are marked by this uniformity of sequence. " Even the numbers... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 752 pages
...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...effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.*7 In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 722 pages
...this singular crime, it ie surely an astonishing fact, that all the evidence we possess respecting it points to one great conclusion, and can leave no doubt...effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.*7 In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their... | |
| 1858 - 754 pages
...crimes occur annually; and from this it is most strangely assumed as proved, that these crimes are but " the product of the general condition of society, and...necessary consequence of preceding circumstances. (!) In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own lives. This... | |
| 1858 - 878 pages
...regularity in the number of suicides : — . " It is surely an astonishing fact, that all the evidence points to one great conclusion, and can leave no doubt...is merely the product of the general condition of socicty, and that the individual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary condition of preceding... | |
| 1858 - 812 pages
...the individual offender, as of the state of society into which that individual is thrown" (p. 27) ; and " can leave no doubt on our minds that suicide is merely the product of tb. general condition of society, and that the individual felon only carries into effect what is a... | |
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