| Show OLD AOE AGE OF gaeir MEN the national popular review gives A 11 long list of men who have retained their mental vigor and activity to io so an age where most mortals show a decline de lesseps gladstone anu and Bis bismarck marcki head toe the list plus IX al bough livirt in turbulent times and suffering lingering from much mental anxiety at timbes reached a high age and retained full possession of his bla faculties to the last the dramatist dram atiat crebell lon ion OOM composed POsed his last dramatic piece at the he age of ninety four michael angelo angeio was still at work ou on his bis large canvases at ninety eight and titian at ninety still painted with the vigor of hta his eary early youth general meier an austrian was in the saddle aud and active at eighty and might have won the battle of marengo but for the arrival or of desaix the venetian Ve nettan doge kenry D cindolo in the eleventh century lost h his I 1 e eyesight when young while on 00 an AD embassy to constantinople but this disadvantage he rose roae to tue the highest ff fl Boea iCea in the state anil and conducted several ware wara with great success atthe advanced age of eighty three he besieged beat eged and captured constantinople stantin ople fontenelle Funte nelle wa still vigorous at ninety eigsti and newton at eighty three worked at the solution lution eo of 0 abi problems before him biro cornaro enjoyed better health sit at the axe age of ninety five than at thirty these and many other cases that can be mentioned may be exceptional but they seem tu to indicate that the intellectual activity of human beings being may it i on notwithstanding the failing strength of the body and that with living in conformity conor mity to the laws of th creator even the body may be kept in a comparative state ot of preservation very close to the century murk mark |
