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Show How to Keep Young. I It is truo that tho neophobia of tho j old has its causo In mental attltudo u rather than In physical decay, It la not that the mental power la less, but 1 It Is natural for a man to rely on tho thinking he did In his twenties nnd to j refuse to reopen questions he "not- I tlcd! half n lifetime ngo. jH This atrophy of thought can bo 1 avoided If tho danger Is foreseen, nnd a man deliberately forms tho habit of breaking thought habits. It enn bo csenped If a man recognizes that ho Is borne on a stream of social chango nnd that, instead of trusting to the perspective in which things appeared Jssl In his youth, he must look nnd look "lsl again. From Social Psychology, by E. ' |