Passion And Criminality in France : a Legal And Literary Study
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By this profanation of Death,«turning it into a refinement of sensuality, Literature has developed morbid tastes among the reading public and provoked not a few suicides. In fact, it is even more dangerous to coquet with Death than it is with Love ; such trifling always ends badly. Here is an instance in proof of what we say. Not long ago while examining the official reports of suicides for the Department of the Seine, I found appended to one of them the following printed advertisement : " To a...ll who are dis- appointed, disillusioned, sceptical, — a new sensation offered by the magnetico-spiritualistic visions of Death in his cave." The prospectus was illustrated with pictures of skeletons and death's heads and similar horrors, which " disillusioned sceptics " were invited to come and see. The particular "sceptic" in question on receiving this curious document, had visited the show in search of a ^ Physicians have noted that venereal diseases are more common during troublous times following on great public calamities, because at such periods populations abandon themselves to every kind of excess, to escape the terrors weighing upon them.
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