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They are ourselves, our best selves, and to allow either law or ruler to interfere with them, is self-destruction. We are no longer ourselves when we allow ourselves to be controlled by the will or power of another. Animals have equal rights with man. The poet was right when he said, "Take not away the life thou canst not give, For all things have an equal right to live."
That powerful commonwealth, to which the great party of the Reformation naturally looked for guidance in the coming conflict, seemed bent on self-destruction. The microcosm of the Netherlands now represented, alas! the war of elements going on without on a world-wide scale.
The manifold torment of the psychologist who has discovered this ruination, who discovers once, and then discovers ALMOST repeatedly throughout all history, this universal inner "desperateness" of higher men, this eternal "too late!" in every sense may perhaps one day be the cause of his turning with bitterness against his own lot, and of his making an attempt at self-destruction of his "going to ruin" himself.
It was all clear enough to Dr. Laidlaw. A weaker man, he knew, would have sought to lose himself in one form or another of sensual indulgence sleeping-draughts, drink, the first pleasures that came to hand. Self-destruction would have been the method of a little bolder type; and deliberate evil-doing, poisoning with his awful knowledge all he could, the means of still another kind of man.
Gloomy were the thoughts that filled the mind of Tara of Helium as she awaited the summons from Luud the summons that could mean for her but one thing; death. She guessed why he had sent for her and she knew that she must find the means for self-destruction before the night was over; but still she clung to hope and to life. She would not give up until there was no other way.
There's heaven on earth, and all the love and pain of love we have tell us there's heaven beyond, unspeakable and eternal; but, sir, when you come to limit God to say, here the responsibility of the faithful God stops, here man's self-destruction begins I can't believe that.
"Woe to us all, if what you say is true; for then the world is but a vale of misery, and the wise man has but one resource self-destruction! But pardon me, I have not offered you a chair." The stranger accepted a seat, and glanced at the heaps of papers that covered the rickety old table. "You were writing?" asked he. "Are we soon to receive another great work from Rousseau's hands?"
Darwin devotes nearly all his time to man's body and to the points at which the human frame approaches in structure though vastly different from the brute; the Bible emphasizes man's godlike qualities and the virtues which reflect the goodness of the Heavenly Father. Darwinism ends in self-destruction.
I speak of this point chiefly for the sake of method; for the strength of Madame L'Espanaye would have been utterly unequal to the task of thrusting her daughter's corpse up the chimney as it was found; and the nature of the wounds upon her own person entirely preclude the idea of self-destruction.
Their minds of necessity became unsettled; they meditated self-destruction; and, as it appears by a paper left behind in the handwriting of both, came to an agreement that the husband should first kill his wife and their four children, and then put an end to his own existence.
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