Few things are more touching than the impassioned retrench of suicide seen in man from time immemorial that comes like a wave, rises to a crest, breaks and ebbs. The series of waves with never a complete subsidence between can be followed throughout the history of civilization. The word discouragement in its broadest sense usually has been the nosogenic or provoking factor. Under the influence of Catholicism and Mohammedanism, suicide, during many centuries, almost completely ceased in all the civilized, active and progressive parts of mankind. When we recollect how warmly it