Habitual roguery │ 2,105 │ 359 │ 2,464 Disgust with social position │ 68 │ 9 │ 77 Desire to avoid legal pursuit │ 1,741 │ 365 │ 2,106 Desire to avoid execution of judgment │ 383 │ 21 │ 204 Desire to avoid military duty │ 266 │ - │ 266 Desire to avoid calumny │ 37 │ 27 │ 64 Desire to avoid pain │ 3,522 │ 1,165 │ 4,687 Disgust of life │ 1,547 │ 374 │ 1,921 Hypochondria │ 640 │ 211 │ 851 Disgust of military life │ 214 │ - │ 214 Reproaches of employers │ 106 │ 41 │ 147 Sorrow for loss of situation │ 53 │ 24 │ 77 Rivalry in business │ 8 │ - │ 8 Insanity, general │ 6,744 │ 3,982 │ 10,726 Insanity, partial, or monomania │ 603 │ 244 │ 847 Idiocy │ 510 │ 307 │ 817 Cerebral congestion │ 504 │ 177 │ 681 Passion │ 51 │ 17 │ 68 Political excitement │ 34 │ - │ 34 Religious fears │ 40 │ 28 │ 68 Suicide after crime │ 299 │ 28 │ 327 Unknown cause │ 5,121 │ 1,354 │ 6,745 ├─────────┼─────────┼──────── │ 39,302 │ 12,824 │ 52,126 ─────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────── CHAPTER IX. RACE, GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES, AND CLIMATE. The inhabitants of the majority of countries are not at the present time so unique racially, as was probably the case at an earlier date. Races of men have spread themselves to contiguous lands, and have emigrated to other tracts of country; so that it is now much the reverse of usual to find a nation composed of any one race, or even of a very preponderating majority of one stock. The more nearly, however, that a state is thus constituted, the more obvious appears the fact that each race of men has a certain underlying “special rate of suicide.” This rate, I say, underlies all the variations exhibited by the various portions of that race; which may be due to Climate, Religion, Morals, or Education. The idea of a real Specific Ethnic Rate of Suicide is, I believe, due to Wagner of Berlin; and the more the subject has been examined, the more obvious the conclusion appears.