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Show SOME CAUSES OF SUICIDE. The (Irrmsm Are tho Moat Salcldul ir All Kuriipi'mi lUt'ti. Hestdes Imitation there are other social so-cial Influences which lend to suUlde, but the most powerful is that which we denote by the general term Clrili79tniii, says William Matthews la the North Amcitcnu Kcvicw. Self-killing is emphatically em-phatically the crime of intellectual peo-pls. peo-pls. Almost unknown to surages, lure nmong Mohammedans, It rc?cs union the nations most ndvnncid iu culture und tctliicineiit with u fleroncbH ex-i t-ly t-ly proportionnl to their.mi'iilnl development. develop-ment. It Is said that Itoiia) knew nothing noth-ing of this ciii-m till nftor h esUbhsli-incut esUbhsli-incut of thv'cmpiie. It was wlu 11 the ltoman loelons had carried their uuglo triumphantly tluough thh w.,ild, and brought back tho tuenml of luxury In the spoil of Kurope, Asti end Afru 11, that Hfu In the ntTnal cilr began to 1-c .,vi.ilfinvtlvr'f1"ey-MM Tf .al.fc-.---- To-day thy Oei-maus, who nro tho profouudest thluktis .ind the most cul tlvated people, nro nh. the most sutriilul race lu Curopo. rnucu conns next, Lualand thiid, Italy und Hungary fovst'i, while on tho otU.T hnnd Mpahi, tho most backw-urd of IJuKrx-uu mitioni in cultuic, Pottugal, Corsuj nnd L!1-rai.tia L!1-rai.tia rank the lowest ifl the sun idul srale. Of the different r.vlous ot the same country the north tuid northuu' t of France outrank in culture nnd in suicide su-icide the center and southwest; thn not tli nud center of Italy outrank li- south nud tho bihtuds, 'and B.i.von'-winch B.i.von'-winch iu its ochools and gvigral iiiltui surpasses tho rest of (irfmanv. 1 u passes It also In thu number of iu 1 cides. lll short, su universally doe ' 1 rule hold that thu strength of the I. u duuev to self-killing may uhnosl ' '' gaide.l cs un Index to n rwvplo'neivili ,! lion. |