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The Development of the Modern Suicide Tendency (IN: Constructive Sociological Theory, edited by A Woolfolk and J B Imber)
Masaryk T G
Our investigation has shown that in the final analysis the morbid suicide tendency of the present is caused by the irreligiosity of the masses. It must be established through a cultural history whether & how the religiosity of peoples changes in certain periods to bring about that strange & harmful pessimistic mass mood in which suicide is practiced as a legitimate escape from every kind of misfortune & dissatisfaction.