Show flam BELONGS TO HIS AGE essentially subject of environment life in other period periods would be impossible to him boulo twin ere vere he given the op ro i nit pit eally live in auy any ago age node ade h I 1 i t ironi bla his own modern phi 0 o 1 I i teus us thit th it life Is then at Us highest aid ai d best when the organ ti i perfectly adapted to lit ith en iton ment if it this be EO so then it la Is cal that any large sudden ind about t change in the environment must impair the ita vitality lallay lall lity ty of the organ ism Is in and aright even destroy it alto gether if it WP me think of 0 it a greek of the age of pericles a roman of the age of julius Cite caesar would find it as hard to live the life of today as any man now alive mould fimi it hard to live on were be he by some freak of magic to fall asleep in hie big own orld tonight and to wake up tomorrow morning in the thena ot of pericles or in ili the rome of julius caesar rhe mere effort of tho the to adap adapt itself to the strange would benumb all its energies and ar rest all its functions you might as well expect a palm tree to flourish in the arctic regions it would languish and die dle in the attempt net ci there are many worthy people who delight to call themselves old fashioned and are always longing so they pretend to live in some other and better age than their own they make to themselves a paradise of a past they have never known and fond ly imagine that were they ita its adam and ave no serpent would ever be guile hen heri into wanting to kenov the good and the evil of the present it Is a vain and thoe thop tho e P who en ell bertain it only succeed so tar far as they succeed at all in getting out of touch with their own age |