But, though we may grudge the Chinese their advantage in having not one but several of these mature observers, we too may profit from their practical hints on how to liv: "Walk sprightly like a pigeon" is. after all, much the same as the t's "Head well up, chin but how few of us have ever practised sitting like a. tortoise. To keep 8 quiet heart is an old counsel, tand—like the rules for walking and sitting—ie not fitted for the ex: tremely social life of modern cities; yet without it there is no sure way Of seeing 188 descendants, The hart cut to old age has been sought, of course, like short cuts to every thing else, The shouts have scarcely died away with which the latest
his wares through Germany. vendor of hale old ages has cried stead of offering anything *0 free from a comforting sense of magic, and. so dificult to patent, Ching-yun's precepts, a salesman hus recently offered the people of Hanover a fruit for which, he said, the elephants of the East travelled hundreds of miles, because it kept them vigorous for, hundreds years. But, when methodical German solentists had put the trait to the rigorous tests of physical science, they found it was an old friend of their nursery days, thy: homely but non-magical prune. The to which preecits ited is less final, and they ain rather than ote in authority by being dffcult to obey and consequently dificult to test. In nothing has Mz. Li shown the wisdom of experience more, clearly than by sticking to precepts, and not attempting, as lesser men might easily Ihave done, to use his age as a sales~ man's argument for the herbs he has peddled since his hundredth year.
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