leaves it for the commentators

"Indeed, the settlement of this question must be left to the commentators on Mardi, some four or five hundred centuries hence."  (Mardi)

... and finally, in despair, he "imitated humanity so abominably," as to throw himself headlong, and so drown—or hang himself:  (the author cannot decide which —even after a post-mortem examination;—and so leaves the decision of this important point to the commentators.)
("Scenes Beyond the Western Border," March 1853; and
Scenes and Adventures in the Army)