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(Of all the stupidities wherewith the law-making power has signaled its own incapacity for dealing with the disorders of society, none appears so utterly stupid as the law which punishes an attempted suicide. To the question "What have you to say in your defense? " I conceive the poor wretch might reply as follows: )
To say in my defense? Defense of what?