The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26
THE AGE OF USEFULNESS.

THERE always about the OF use
Out old debate the MAXIM "Od for counsel
young for war; Kngke his account OF the OF
kava said that desperate cavalry charge should never De leo D
commander the age of thrty-hree.
recently passed from the literature furnished
by laymen findings and Dr. Osler of Johns Hop
ns reaches his climax forty
and should be retired choroformed sixty There no evidence
opinion physical scientific facts 1t
develop equally and that they the
age equal respect their usefulness the world This
toosly incorrect generalization Some men mentally fully
developed their powers tentyone In others
pacy much period We this in the frequent
where the graduate the head OF his class finally over
taken and passed the of life by the who graduated
capacity The ability apply
his learning to 1t TOOL followed long after the tool was put
The of the had that ability which grasps ed
instrument but lacked the form talent that
could make practical use of it.
All have known the value Of experience equipment
Proverba lore full of evidence OF this Now of forty who
his equipment 1t OF his capital 1t strengthens him in all
1t has been well said that generation will learn from the
that preceded This experience personal acquis
dread the because another has been burned goes playing
with matches until has burned itself Then the experience becomes
personal S and applied
No estimate the loss the world of forty
be dscedited and disued 1t that human society
permanently deprived of the twenty years experience
qued by each generation 1t the saying the
material accumuaons of twenty years be disued and
Ouawed Of the ninety members of the United Senate eighty
six have passed their oe year average age
tors fifty According Dr. Osler mistake keep
dused speaks of the css of forty
years There doubt that about that age physical
force against this purely physical crisis
IS past the resistance disease be
and in regard to diseases greater The period in
tuberculosis between eighteen and twenty-five So there
earlier Crisis than forty Persons forty
consumption than those twenty younger physical
fa1T balances the other Again the immunity
the forty clnnacterc due
OF experience Men know and abae habits that
tend to shorten life.
decree possible striking Of the worlds activities all
men now forty DID, the loss would be paayze
the nations 1t there compulsory death of all
now sixty DID, the world would be scarcely less
marked In the moral and physical economy the inn
pulse OF youth and the wisdom of balance in
OF
We regard Dr. Osers distinctly the
tar OF society They induce youth false view of the limit
OF usefulness and to look lightly the value of experience AS
men approach forty with their ideals wholly realized he teaches
te 10 despair and that leads actual
But when taught that equipped with
ce as valuable OF their capital beyond lie the
ds IN winch they to they hopeful with
energy under guidance and the real may be won ong
@ hat clnacter1c which he calls crisis
true would be than crisis be tragedy For the
sake science is to be regretted that his are emitted
i h appear to be entirely facts phvsoo
and psychology and without foundation history of mans
reaon TO the universe of which he
science suffers by such statements
against A USERS claim to be its representative.