Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHb ERG
A. b., NJ A, N. d. John Hopkinsl.

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Death Is an Accident" Not Real Part
of Life.
Essays and PHILOSOPHERS have been
written about the beauties OF old
| age, but [ challenge and deny them
all. To maintain that there is a
charm in old age is much the same
as to pretend that you hate war
news The one is as psychologleally
impossible as the other is Peck
sniffian. Old age is still old age IL
is the waning, not the growing moon.
The dusk of evening can never be the
blaze of noon. 1t is not strength, but
weakness.
Any extension of the allotted limit
of human life beyond the time-hon-
ored one of three-score and ten VIII
inevitably help in extension oil tne
span of life of the whole living world.
Analogously, any experiments or dis
coVeries which will lead to longer life
and better health in lower creatures
will conceivably aid man to the goal
of mortal yet endless life.
When Professor Herbert spencer
Jennings, Americas foremost biolo-
gist and student of living things, re-
Gently announced from his labora-
tories at Johns Hopkins that sys-
tematic change of their foodstufs
and environment would allow those
fragile animalcules called paramec-
ium to live almost an undying he
through thousands and thousands of
generations, it was realized that
even human kind need not necessarily
die
From the researches of Professors
Jennings, Metchnikoff, Woodruff and
those of DR. Alexis Carrel. it is plain
fsan toll 0f
human life Is not what it has been
cracked up to be. In fine, IL is now
within the terms of theology, phil
osophy, science and sanity to con-
slider the possibility of humanity liv-
ing on forever.
Old Age Accidental.
There is no such thing as natural
death, according to the lights OF DR..
Alexis Carrel All animal and plant
deaths are accidental. AS soon as
science clears away the forest of ac-
cidents, and as fast as they are de-
termined, when knowledge and dis
covery shall bring into mans pur-
view each detail of all the "accl-
dents" which take away life, man
will be able to live indefinitely. That
is to say, as long as he can fore
stall and anticipate those accidents.
covery of disease germs and methods
of warding them off eliminated
battalion of these accidents" at one
fell swoop.
The discoveries of surgery, bacteri-
ology. chemistry, antitoxins, vaccines.
safety-flrst measures and many SINH
lar things have also eliminated
legions of death-dealing and health
manning accidents"
In other words, nobody dies, but
everybody Is assassinated, killed by
missteps. foods. bacteria. parasites
and other enemies of life. A soiled
the measles and colds" are muir
derers, pure and simple. No other
name fits them.
People who seem to die of "old age
or from natural causes" true enough
are not laid low by lightning, loco
motives or infectious diseases, but ac-
cording to DR.. Carrers recent inyes-
legations, the accidents" are there
none the less.
DR.. Carrel has uprooted the old and
accepted notion of a death principle
or the philosophic delusion that even
at birth there turks in life an ele-
ment of decay. 1t is not true.
Tissues Kept Alive.
There is no cycle of life from it's
origin up to O. sure decay. Tho fact
that living structures, the textiles OF
a living fowl or the vital anatomy
of man can be kept alive. sprout-
ing, growing and multiplying in a
flash, was discovered several years
ago by DR.. Carrel.
The French American savant has
lately gone beyond this. He has
found that living tissues may be kept
alive and thriving outside the corpo-
rate limits of the body which once
possessed them for ages and ages. In
brief, bits of live heart, IL placed
properly in a proper pabulum, such
as its own blood and in an incuba-
tor, will continue indefinitely to beat
and to grow.
Curiously enough, the pulse of