Show I 1 LONGEVITY AND FAME if all generals had died at alexa alexanders aders UT age e all poets at marlowe all statesmen at pitts how many men would have mis ed cd reputation usar was when he commenced the conquest of gaul washington was 43 on his appointment to the com command i mand of the ar army y shakespeare early as aa W be began to write writer i would not had hache he died yong jong have bequeathed thed us I 1 othello macbeth or forlear I 1 lear milton cifton was 52 wheelie wh enlie bic set himself to writing 0 t I 1 paradise se lost logt tennyson was 41 when he publisher I 1 in memoriam states statesmanship mansco and and youth can not be expected to go together 01 Wal poles long lease of power did aid not dot commence till he was 44 fox was 56 50 when lie he became foreign 0 secretary palmerston Palme raton did not reach the highest post till he was 70 his long premiers premiership lisp not beginning till he was 75 glasstone was hot fiot p premier re m ier til fill 59 beacons cansfield field was not premier till 68 bismarck was wag 48 when he gained power historians likewise require I 1 re experience of life mid and yea years rs of rea research earch hume aud and prescott Pr cscott were 43 and macauley 48 when their fir first st volumes appeared great as have been some men who died young who knows how bow much greater they would have been had their lives been prolonged 31 michael ichael angelo showed astonishing precocity but he owes to hia sa years his great renown as painter sculptor and sonnet eer the true comparison would obviously be between works produced at the same age or between men dying at about the same age but it is much easier to test bent than capacity public Op inin |