F.─Domestic trouble, and anguish of the affections; loss of relatives, deluded hopes, dissensions at home, want of children. G.─Financial losses; loss of employment, gambling, loss of law suits. H.─Misery, want of home and food, and fear of such want. I.─Fear, shame, and remorse; seduction, unmarried pregnancy, the haunting of a criminal’s conscience. J.─Despair; this class is made to include unknown causes; to which may be added: K.─Honourable motives, yet misdirecting conduct. Beyond all the predispositions, and states of disease, as causes of a voluntary death, follow the consideration of the less tangible, but terribly effectual moral motives, which have been briefly tabulated. Volumes have been, and might still be written on the disastrous effects of ungoverned passions, and ill-regulated desires, and their consequences, guilt and shame, remorse and terror. Volumes also might be contributed on the allied subjects of the misery and pain, always present with us, and near us, and which but few of us wholly escape contact with, or sharing. In these pages we must be content with a notice of only the most frequent of those troubles. As before observed, the suicides of eminent men in ancient history were usually brought about by motives more or less honourable, if mistaken, but practically, in our times, the final causes of the act are of a less elevated character. If we except the case of lunatics under protection, among whom the proportion of suicides is small, from the care with which they are watched, and the case of those in whom insanity bursts forth suddenly, and without any warning, the catalogue of motives given above will be found practically almost complete. Brierre de Boismont gives the following classification of 4,595 cases which occurred in France, assigning the mental or moral determining causes. But it is obvious that these tables must be taken _cum grano salis_, because of the impossibility of discovering in every case the true motive, and because of the coincidence of several causes in many instances. 652 Lunatics, about one-seventh of all cases. 405 Other diseases of body, incurable, or with intolerable pain. 530 Alcoholism. 361 Domestic troubles. 311 Sorrow, disappointment. 134 Remorse, and fear of the law. 306 Disappointed love. 237 Ennui. 277 Reverses of fortune, and cupidity. 282 Poverty and misery. 55 Delirium of acute diseases. 44 Gambling. 43 Want of occupation. 26 Pride and vanity; notoriety. 56 Indolence. 145 Hypochondriac and hysterical. 54 Jealousy. 121 Misconduct. 556 Motive unknown. Kolb, J. F., in his work on the “Condition of Nations,” gives the following Table of Causation in respect to French Suicides; in a recent year, 79 per cent. were males, and 21 per cent. were females.