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| Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1852). |
A shocking record. —The suicides in France now average ten a day; the number for the present century, thus far, is over three hundred thousand. Not a day passes in which a suicide may not be directly traced to want of success in life; to the false moralities inculcated by wicked or ignorant writers; to the failure of parents in obtaining a proper influence over their children; to unrestrained appetites and passions; and to the inability of multitudes “to get along in the world” prosperously, for want of thoroughness of preparation for their calling or station in life. —Hall’s Journal of Health. [Scientific American, t. viii, núm. 9 (28 de enero de 1863), p. 131.]
