Suicide may also be looked upon as an experiment, as a question which man puts to Nature and compels her to answer. It asks, what change a man's existence and knowledge of things experience through death? It is an awkward experiment to make; for it destroys the very consciousness that awaits the answer.
FOOTNOTES:
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[ Wallace's Life, pp. 95, 96.]
2 ([return])
[ Wallace, p. 108.]
3 ([return])
[ Haldane and Kemp's The World as Will and Idea.]
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[ Wallace, p. 145.]