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Show How to Keep Young, It Is true that the neophobia- of the old has its cause In mental attitude rather than in physical decay. It Is not that tho mental power Is less, but it is natural for a tian to rely on tho thinking he did in hia twenties and to refuse to reopen questions he "settled" "set-tled" half a lifetime ago. This atrophy of thought can be avoided If the danger is foreseen, and a man deliberately forms the habit of breaking thought habits. It can be escaped If a man recognizes that he Is borne on a stream of social chango and that. Instead of trusting to tho perspective In which things appeared in his youth, he must look and look again. From Social Psychology, by E. A. Ross. |