The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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... mental development . I myself am an example of an exceptionally slow mental growth . When I compare myself as I was at their age with the majority of my young friends I am amazed , not only by their sophistication and ' sang - froid ...
... mental development . I myself am an example of an exceptionally slow mental growth . When I compare myself as I was at their age with the majority of my young friends I am amazed , not only by their sophistication and ' sang - froid ...
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... mental enjoyment by the use of the senses is the legitimate moral aim of every consciousness and that a state of misery and despair is its ' other ' , its antipodes , its opposite , its supreme Devil . I say a state of mental enjoy ...
... mental enjoyment by the use of the senses is the legitimate moral aim of every consciousness and that a state of misery and despair is its ' other ' , its antipodes , its opposite , its supreme Devil . I say a state of mental enjoy ...
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... mental quality with which the piling up of the years especially endows it is that quality so rare in youth , and so perverted in middle - age , namely the quality of common sense . Nor must it be forgotten that what common sense itself ...
... mental quality with which the piling up of the years especially endows it is that quality so rare in youth , and so perverted in middle - age , namely the quality of common sense . Nor must it be forgotten that what common sense itself ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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