provoking the suicide and it is despair himself who speaks in this epigraphs saying, the passage haslip makes debater ways is not paying wellborn that brings lonny assemblies the soul to sleep in quiet after toil after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life. hearing this insidious argument itself nearly kills himself, but is saved whereupon despair hangs himself. that is the part that comes after. my question is, what is the connection between spencer's figure of despair and the liberalism but are numb identifies as the ideology of western suicide. does he mean to take this projection? if so there's great irony and paradox to it or in it for as he himself declares, liberalism is the optimistic espousal of the perfect ability of human nature for the rationalism and secularism. but it is the the consequence of such utopian thinking it is underlying basis may lead us to the cave of despair. it tells us something about the moral combest of division in the book. now i am privileged to introduce our distinguished speakers. the public square pages i love reading after graduating high sc