Faith Is Not Uprooted By Dialectic Proof;

The Term Suicide Is Applied To All Cases Of Death Resulting Directly Or Indirectly From A Positive Or Negative Act Of The Victim Himself, Which He Knows Will Produce This Result

A Society Whose Members Are United By The Fact That They Think In The Same Way In Regard To The Sacred World And Its Relations With The Profane World, And By The Fact That They Translate These Common Ideas Into Common Practices, Is What Is Called A Church. In All History, We Do Not Find A Single Religion Without A Church.

Religious Representations Are Collective Representations Which Express Collective Realities.

Reality Seems Valueless By Comparison With The Dreams Of Fevered Imaginations; Reality Is Therefore Abandoned.

For A Long Time It Has Been Known That The First Systems Of Representations With Which Men Have Pictured To Themselves The World And Themselves Were Of Religious Origin. There Is No Religion That Is Not A Cosmology At The Same Time That It Is A Speculation Upon Divine Things. If Philosophy And The Sciences Were Born Of Religion, It Is Because Religion Began By Taking The Place Of The Sciences And Philosophy.