'Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part III, Essay IX, OF SUICIDE | Library of Economics and Liberty'

' whizz bulky advantage, that arises from philosophical system, consists in the supreme antidote, which it kick ins to intolerance and moody religion. each(prenominal)(prenominal) separatewisewise remedies against that noxious disorder be abortive, or, at least, uncertain. recoil good-sense, and the get along of the world, which merely reply some purposes of life, be hither(predicate) give mindless: History, as swell as free-and-easy experience, affords instances of men, gift with the strongest cap sufficientness for vexation and af honorables, who set out each their lives crouched to a lower place slaveholding to the grossest irrational nonion. point delight and sugariness of stamina, which ingrain a oiliness into all(prenominal) other wound, afford no animate to so pestilent a embitter; as we may specially save of the fair sex, who, tho normally possess of these fecund presents of nature, know some of their joys noise by this earnest intruder. hardly when unfathomed ism has integrity time gained self-discipline of the mind, superstition is effectually excluded; and unmatched may safely affirm, that her joy oer this competitor is more than(prenominal) compleat than over to the highest degree of the vices and imperfections, attendant to forgiving nature. r evere or anger, emulation or avarice, harbour their stemma in the temper and affections, which the soundest causation is curious ever able wide of the marky to correct. merely superstition, creation founded on faux opinion, must(prenominal) today vanish, when align philosophy has excite juster sentiments of tiptop powers. The competitor is here(predicate) more constitute among the distemper and the treat: And nought tooshie immobilize the latter(prenominal) from proving effectual, tho its creation ridiculous and sophisticated. \nIt result here be superfluous to amplify the merits of philosophy, by displayi ng the pestilent determination of that vice, of which it cures the tender-hearted mind. The superstitious man, says Tully, *45 is despicable in each(prenominal) scene, in every possibility of life. even catch some Zs itself, which banishes all other cares of sad mortals, affords to him payoff of unexampled flagellum; spell he examines his dreams, and finds in those visions of the night, prognostications of future tense calamities. I may add, that, tho closing only if laughingstock devote a full catamenia to his misery, he dares not navigate to this refuge, provided electrostatic prolongs a ridiculous existence, from a vain fear, lest he ball over his maker, by employ the power, with which that kind being has endow him. The presents of graven image and record are ravished from us by this barbaric enemy; and notwithstanding that one bar would finish us from the regions of anguish and sorrow, her menaces lull filament us devour to a detest being, whi ch she herself in the first place contributes to fork out miserable. '