THESIS II

Suicide is a sin against nature. Death inflicted in self-
defense is under certain conditions justifiable. Private duels
are highly absurd, and contrary to the law of nature. Jouin,
96-118 ; Rickaby, 202-224.
QUESTION

Religion is the one word expressive of our duties towards
God. It is a word of wide significance, and we were able in
our first thesis to discuss only its most salient features. From
among its varied contents we selected for study worship,
revelation, and its concomitant question of religious tolera-
tion. Religion, of course, imposes on us the obligation of
cultivating whatever virtues have a direct bearing on God.
These virtues are in especial, faith, hope and charity; and
they are for this reason called the theological virtues. There
must, however, be a limit to our treatise, and we prefer to
leave the fuller examination of these several topics to cate-
chism and the Sunday-school.
