...where evident moral causes exist which sufficiently account for the act ; where the resolution lias been deliberately made and might have been abandoned...we discover no other symptom of mental derangement, as when a man prefers death to a miserable, contemptible life. The abhorrence of life, and the idea...

...actual circumstances ; where evident moral causes exist which sufficiently account for the act ; when the resolution has been deliberately made, and might...existence, that he may not survive the loss of his honor, or of some other highly valued possession which forms an intimate part of his intellectual being...

...the actual circumstances; where evident moral causes exist, which efficiently account for the act; where the resolution has been deliberately made and...been abandoned had the circumstances changed, and in »hich we discover no other symptoms of mental derangement, as when a man Prefers death to a miserable,...

...the actual circumstances; where evident moral causes exist which sufficiently account for the act; where the resolution has been deliberately made, and...circumstances changed; and in which we discover no other symptoms of mental derangement. (p. 253) In the 1 870s John Gray stated that “in the large proportion...