funny quoteSuicide may also be regarded as an experiment—a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to an answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
I found a few errors. Some might not have to be corrected some do.
1:29 repeated has a
5:19 Aristotle, it is true, declared suicide to be an offence against the State, (also when he is too prosperous – inserted) although not against the person
6:00 he will depart to his place of refuge in the tomb. – you read refugee the word is refuge – long u silent e
6:17 repeated above all in the works of Seneca and then who expresses the strongest approval of it. repeated
8:50 you read refugee for refuge
8:55 you read con science for conscience https://www.google.com/search?q=conscience&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1
11:00 But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance; - Forgot to read the section below
they stand like a sentinel at the gate leading out of this world. Perhaps there is no man alive who would not have already put an end to his life, if this end had been of a purely negative character, a sudden stoppage of existence. There is something positive about it; it is the destruction of the body; and a man shrinks from that, because his body is the manifestation of the will to live.
However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism between the ills of the body and the ills of the mind. If we are in
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Craig
We're pleased that you chose the Short Nonfiction Collection for your first recording. 44 minutes is quite an undertaking for a first recording! I listened to a just a few minutes of your recording, and I think that with a few tweaks, it will be fine. However, right now, you need help in controlling your volume. Usually, we ask that people new to recording for LibriVox do a one-minute sound check, to be sure their specifications are what LibriVox needs.