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If dying is painful, what does that matter? Is it pleasant to take drugs? How many people prefer death to medicine? Proof that nature abhors both. What suffering could one elude that comes not from his hand? What is the point where his power ends, and where one can legitimately resist?
Is it then not permissible for us to change the state of anything, because all that is, is as he has willed it? Must one do nothing in this world for fear of violating his laws, and whatever we do can we ever violate them? God has not breathed life into him in order for him to remain immobile in a perpetual quietism. But he has given him freedom to do good, conscience to will it, and reason to choose it. He has constituted him sole judge of his own acts.
He has written in his heart: do what is good for you and harmful to no one. If I feel it is right for me to die, I resist his command by clinging obstinately to life; for by making my death desirable, he instructs me to seek it. Bomston, I appeal to your wisdom and your candor; what more certain maxims can reason deduce from Religion concerning willful death?
If the Christians have established others contrary to them, they have drawn them neither from the principles of their Religion, nor from its unique rule, which is Scripture, but solely from pagan philosophers. Indeed, where will one find in the entire Bible a law against suicide, or even a simple disapproval; and is it not quite strange that in the examples of people who have taken their own lives, not a word of blame is found against any of these examples?
Would this miracle have been performed to justify a crime; and would this man who lost his strength for having allowed a woman to seduce him have recovered it to commit an authentic crime, as if God himself had wished to deceive mankind?
Thou shalt not kill, says the Decalogue. What follows from this? If this commandment is to be taken literally, one must kill neither evildoers nor enemies; and Moses who brought about the death of so many people had a very poor understanding of his own precept. If there are a few exceptions, the first of them is certainly in favor of willful death, because it is free of violence and injustice, the only two criteria that can make homicide criminal, and because nature has, besides, created sufficient obstacle to it.
But, they further say, suffer patiently the ills that God sends your way; count your pains as a merit. How poorly it is to grasp the spirit of Christianity, to apply its maxims thus! Man is subject to a thousand ills, his life is a web of miseries, and he seems born only to suffering. Of these ills, reason counter to reason, approves.
But how small is their sum compared to those he is forced to suffer despite himself! These are the ones a merciful God allows men to count for merit; he accepts as homage freely given the mandatory tribute he imposes on us, and imputes to the benefit of the next life our resignation in this one.
Let us then flee without qualm all the ills we can flee, there will always be only too many left for us to suffer. Let us deliver ourselves without remorse from life itself, once it has become an ill for us; since it is within our power to do so, and since in doing so we offend neither God nor men.
If something must be sacrificed to the Supreme Being, is dying nothing? Let us offer to God the death he imposes on us through the voice of reason, and commit peacefully to his bosom our soul which he reclaims from us. Such are the general precepts that good sense dictates to all men and Religion sanctions. You have been willing to open your heart to me; I know your sufferings; you suffer no less than I; your ills like mine are without remedy, and all the more since the laws of honor are more immutable than those of fortune.
You endure them, I concede, steadfastly. Virtue sustains you; one step farther; it releases you. You urge me to suffer: Milord, I dare urge you to put an end to your sufferings, and I let you be the judge which of us cherishes the other more.
Why postpone taking a step that must in any case be taken? Shall we wait until old age and years attach us basely to life after taking away its charms, and until we trail about with effort, ignominy, and pain a body crippled and bent over? Let us take advantage of a time when the weariness of life makes death desirable; let us beware lest it come with its horrors at the moment when we no longer want it. I remember, there was a moment when I asked Heaven for but an hour, and would have died of despair had I not obtained it.
Ah how painful it is to break the ties that bind our hearts to earth, and how it is to give it up as soon as they are broken! I can feel, Milford, that we are both worthy of a dwelling more pure; virtue points us the way, and fate beckons us to seek it. May the friendship that joins us unite us once more in our last hour. What pain, what regret can poison their last instants?
What do they leave behind in departing the world? They go off together; they leave nothing behind. Young man, you are being carried away by a blind transport; restrain yourself; do not give counsel while you are seeking it. I have known other ills than yours. My soul is staunch; I am an Englishman, I know how to die, for I know how to live, to suffer like a man. I have seen death at close range, and consider it with too much detachment to go seeking it out.
Let us talk about you. It is true, you were necessary to me; my soul needed yours; your assistance could prove useful to me; your reason could possibly enlighten me in the most importance concern of my life; if I make no use of it, whose fault do you think that is? Where is it? What has become of it? What can you do?
What good are you in your present condition? What services can I expect from you? Unreasonable sorrows render you dumb and merciless. You are not a man; you are nothing; and if I did not take into account what you are capable of being, such as you are I see nothing in this world beneath you. The only proof I need is your Letter itself. Formerly I found sense, truth in you. Your sentiments were straightforward, your reasoning was clear, and I loved you not only by affinity but by choice as another means for me to cultivate wisdom.
A miserable and perpetual sophism which by the distractions of you reason indicates those of your heart, and which I would not even bother pointing out had I not taken pity on your ranting. To overthrow all that in a word, I need ask you only one thing. There is indeed, perhaps, in human life a goal, an end, a moral objective?
I beg you to answer me clearly on this point; after which we will take up your letter step by step, and you will blush for having written it. But let us leave aside general maxims, of which often much ado is made without any of them ever being followed; for there is always in the application some particular circumstances that so changes the state of things that everyone believes himself dispensed from obeying the rule he prescribes to others, and we know full well that any man who posits general maxims expect them to oblige everyone, except himself.
Once more let us talk about you. So you are entitled, in your opinion, to cease living? The proof is a strange one; it is that you want to die. That is to be sure a convenient argument for scoundrels: They must be most obliged to you for the weapons you furnish them; there will no longer be any crimes they will not justify by the temptation to commit them, and once the violence of passion has won out over the horror of crime, in the desire of doing evil they will also see the right to do so.
Preface pp. Second Preface pp. Part One pp. Part Two pp. Part Three pp. Part Four pp. Part Five pp. Part Six pp. Appendix I. The Loves of Milord Edward Bomston pp.
Appendix II. For over thirty years Heloise's column "Hints from Heloise" has been an American institution, read by millions daily. In All-New Hints from Heloise, her first new household-hints book in almost a decade, Heloise has created an indispensable home reference guide that focuses specifically on today's changing operative word today is convenience—getting Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.
The story follows the fates and smoldering passions of Julie d'Etange. The original edition was entitled Lettres de deux amans habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes. The scene is set on the shores of Lake Geneva, but the plot harks back in time to the relationship between Peter Abelard and his pupil and mistress, Heloise.
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