"Ix the coming time," said a famous Epglish poet," 'a man or woman eighty or one hundred years old will be more beautiful than the youth or maiden of twenty, as the ripe fruit is more besvtiful and fragrant than the green. These ripe men and women will have no wrinkles on the brow, no grey hair, no bent and feeble bodies. On the contrary they will have perfect heating, clear eyesight, sound teeth, elastic step, and mental 6 this sound sbsnrd and impossible? Why should it? People over one hundred Years old are frequently met with io these they have been as far as human records go back. A man is of no real value until he is past fifty and gained control of his passions and' required same practical wisdom.' After that he ought to have from fifty. to seventy-five working years before him.' Whose dies short of one hundred. (bar violence) dies pf his Gwn folly or that of his snoeajors.' Qne chief thing, however, we must learn, What isit? Take an illustration—euch as we see multitudes of on every
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