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Updated: May 13, 2025
This is the more striking as there is no forbiddance of it, or even positive disapproval of it, to be found either in the New Testament or the Old; so that teachers of religion have to base their disapprobation of suicide on their own philosophical grounds; these, however, are so bad that they try to compensate for the weakness of their arguments by strongly expressing their abhorrence of the act that is to say, by abusing it.
Most of their theological writers, while avoiding such extremes, urge the most extraordinary maxims in connection with their forbiddance of marriage, such as that immorality, being but a passing weakness, is less criminal than marriage, which is interdicted by the faith.... To such a point as this have the conscientious champions of old ceremonial been brought.
Baroni paused a moment. Money he loved with an adoration that excluded every other passion; that blank check, that limitless carte blanche, that vast exchequer from which to draw! it was a sore temptation. He thought wistfully of the welsher's peremptory forbiddance of all compromise of the welsher's inexorable command to "wring the fine-feathered bird," lose whatever might be lost by it.
Moreover, it was a sorry sacrifice for him to make if he was not to be allowed to witness the games. As Sigurd turned to leave him, the boy suddenly caught his arm. "I will not promise!" he cried. "I cannot give you my word. I have set my heart upon the wrestling, and in spite of your forbiddance I shall go. Tell me what manner of man this is that you speak of, and I will avoid him.
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