Show If r When Does Man Begin to Lose Brain Power n Paris Matin hns has asked some omo of or orthe CHE t C the most distinguished French scion scientists tints their opinion ns as to tho ho question what ago age Intelligence begins to decline Professor r says It I 1 do not believe that Intelligence declines In 10 tho lie case use of at n a healthy man whoso brain has bu never suffered Buffered pathologically With Sith age when tho lie body bod Is i beginning to grow crow feeble and on nn exhausted tho the Intelligence of or on nn old man may remain re as quick and nod as WI clear as OB before I am perfectly convinced that with a 0 normal man mon intelligence may not oot decline oDd and that It may keep Its force torce Into old ohl age while modifying Itself Thus mem memory memory ory becomes transformed It can con sill still acquire new now notions but It forgets a n certain number num r of at facts moro more or less re recent recent recent cent while bile retaining old remembrances which had hod disappeared dl Corell or until then been veiled Tell In lu my mT opinion the Intelligence tony wn persist up to the tho final nna of or orthe the tho body bOOy The Tue IS ia ISM I IM iaM M Pierre PIerro Delbet on tho the contrary be bc Ih In n a decline of ot Intelligence and thinks it begins probably at t about the tho age of at 15 Ji he lie himself Is 18 47 Ii but he be Je I says we must joust agree upon the iho meaning of or I the be words word tho lie decline of 01 Intelligence A man mall of ot 40 can cnn no 00 longer store up ns as much mooch material ns as II In hIs Ills youth his lUCID mem memory ory or ban bos In a 11 way i It can enD still acquire and but In feeble proportions I that from tram a n certain otC age new Ideas Inventive original Ideas are given Ihen birth to with greater renter difficulty Intelligence In has hns declined If It however you jou ou regard the question from another point of ot view that of at the bo so utility of ot a man who Is past pant 15 Ii years Cant of at ago age you may nay r with tea rea reason teason son soo that thit his bl Intelligence has ban In no way woy declined but that on all tho lie contrary It U has baa Increased The Tho useful tul materials stored storell up ul In lii his memory arc ore pigeonholed and he be will IJ know bow to usa them nod and com corn combine bine thoin hem In such a manner as an to pro produce duco duce results which bo b could not have obtained earlier not oat having the tho necessary experience Sonic Eminent Imminent Personalities Professor ProCessor says that the do dine clIne of at the Intelligence being due to ho very ery different causes it Is Impossible ble Uk to reply to the question It Is all the tho more Impossible for ter me to answer as os asI asI I do not think though t this may mo be bo presumption on my m part that I have bare no noticed iced an any decline of at Intelligence lu In my myself myself self Professor Protessor whoso whose writings on old ago age would make his bis opinion of or real Interest to the tile controversy would not reply He ne was crts WI In his laboratory sur nor surrounded rounded by b from Ibo ho midst of at whom he ho cried mockingly Tell your readers that I am 03 ro 3 and nud that yono youve ono been able to observe ob ero that my IU Intel Intellectual power la is going downhill |