The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-20

4 cianHDr. Osler-expressed the opin,
ion a short while ago that the effect
\ i've work Of the world Is done betwe-
4 en- the ages OF rs and 40. A more
colossal error cold not have been
| made. 'ha ''
The impression has become entire
" too general that our older men and
women obstruct rather than facili.
tate the march OF civilization. The
truth is that the world owes infinite.
ly more to men above the age of 30,
an age ten years beyond the Osler
limit. than to men below It. Some
two years ago an analysis was made
by scholar of accepted standing,
Mr.. Newman Dorland, OF the lives
and achievements of 400 foremost
characters of human history. This
analysis, to which | am indebted for
many of the names am about TO pre-
sent, showed that nearly so per cent
of the worlds greatest figures closed
active lives between the ages of so
and 80, 35 per cent continuing be-
You'd 20, 221a per cent beyond 80, 8
per cent beyond 30. Let us consider
what has been achieved by men be
yond the age of 80. Titan, master
of Venetian painting, whose magic
coors reflected the freshness and
enthusiasm of world saluting the
return OF art and learning, produc'
ed many of his most wonderful can
vases after so, pant.ng his famous
Battle Of Lepanto. at the age of 3S.
Fontenelle, one of the, most versa.
tile of men; Cornaro, the great dis
o.ple Of temperance, Pope Leo Nlll.
John Adams, The 'phra, tus strobe in.
to the nineties with intellectual visor
unimpaired. Michael Angelo at -
still held the sky prisoner in his
brush, having executed his Last
Judgment. perhaps the most famons
single picture in the world, and his
celebrated frescoes ID the Sstine
Chapel between 60 and 7Og See Won
Moltke in full uniform at So. still the
chief of stan of the J russian army,
having crushed France at ~.
Hear. John Wesle. preaching with
pndiminished eloquensa and power al.
most every day al sss,f still directing
the great religious movement he had
founded, and CLOSING amid unceasing
activity at that remarkable age one of
the most remarkable careers of his
time, having travelled 100000 miles in
an age that knew neither electricity
nor steam, delivered 1000 sermons,
composed hundreds of volumes COW
ering almost every phase of litera-
ture, earning through his publica
tons $15O,0O0. every cent of which
he gave to charity during his life.
See Guizot and Hobbies and Lander
with active pens at-S7. See Talley-
rand and Thomas Jefferson, Herbert
Spencer, Newton, and Yoltaire, all
fruitful in the eighties! See Bar
croft, Button, and Ranke writing
deathless history after so. See Pal
merston, prime minister of England
at 81 and John Quincy Adams, strick.
en- in the fullness of his strength on
the floor of Congress at the same
age. Tennyson Crossing the Bar,
the tenderest death song in our Ian
guage, was composed at SO. Goethe'a
Faust at so. See Gladstone conduct.
ing one of his most exciting political
campaigns at so, taking control OF a
nation and becoming its premier at
SO. See Cato learning Greek; Plu.
tarch, Latin; and Socrates, music, all
at so, and tell me no more that the
old are no longer capable of high ami
useful achievement.
But let us proceed Think of 10.
seph Jefferson portraying Rip Van
Wrinkle with added effectiveness at
20, or the Irish actor, Macklin, ac-
tually taking part in a performance
in England at 80. Think of Brown.
ing, brilliant and complex as ever at
n, or Whittier and Bryant issuing
new volumes at 10. Think OF Grimm,
Laplace, Lamarck, completing ire
mendous tasks in the neighborhood
Of So Think of Perugino, at rs,
painting the walls of vast cathedral,
or Humboldt deliberately postponing
until rs the best work of his life, his
immortal Kosmos. completing 1t at
80. Think of Calico discovering the
daily and monthly vibrations of the
moon at 70. Think Of Irving and
Lamartine, Hugo and Holmes, Words.
worth and Longfellow, Hallam and
Grote, George Buchanan and Samuel