Show J Which End of Life I Grow old along with me The b beat beit t IK Is yet to be beJ beThe be be- J The last of life for which the first was made mado Ti 1 THE pHE HE Hebrew story tells ells of a wonderful garden Sin which man man lived all free from toil and pam pain at the very beginning of history and nd nd the Greek poet sang sanE of a golden age placed like t Eden in the distant past But the modern man man j sc sees s the hc golden age in the future and his poet sings of r i. i C S 7 one off far divine divino event f To which the whole creation moves Both pictures appeal Eden is like the wonderful won won- I d home of a happy childhood seen through later later- years of care and trouble In reminiscent moods mood one turns turn back to it with yearning and s sees es' es it if all in hi rosy colors What a pity to have lost it Progress appeals to hopeful world- world t 5 compelling youth that feels its powers and asks only time to make nake the future glorious And J what one pictures for himself in the past or in inthe j the future one pictures pictures' for the race Hence Eden at one end of time and some splendid goal I 1 i of evolution at the other r Both pictures may be wrong Perhaps there J never was an Eden and the far off divine event j may may never come And what of it If all the 3 changes that man goes through are nothing more t L than Herbert Spencers Spencer's moving equilibrium a constant adjustment of individuals to countless j ch changing nging conditions it conditions it it simply means that the best things of life are arc not packed away at either end end of the path They are pres present rit to to be enjoyed enjoyed en- en joyed at every moment by any n one who is not too much absorbed to see them Man lives in U the tle e present and if he can cant can't t find happiness happiness' there where h cre will he ever find it |