History & The Arts
David Hume
...maladies. It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life and thereby rebel against our Creator. The result of this pernicious influence of superstition on common sense is that dams don't get built, smallpox doesn't get eradicated, and those for whom it is rational to do so do not commit suicide. (Women in particular, he remarks, are...