Note 17 — Chapter III · SUICIDE A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN.—IT IS NOT AN ACT OF COURAGE.
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It is evident that the great dramatist considered that suicide was opposed to the divine will.
“Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand.”
Again, he says—
“Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!”