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It has been suggested that this means the Rev. John Higginson, the venerable senior minister at Salem, whose hesitation as to the proceedings may be inferred from Brattle's words (p. 184, above) — and from all else we know. See below, p. 398.

The philosopher Seneca, it will be remembered, was an advocate of suicide and ended his own life thus.

Whisperings.