...when he contemplates the many evils which they perpetuate unconsciously and with impunity ! As it ican be maintained that all the great advances have come...of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels, and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches. It is not to be denied that occasionally there is a...

...at sixty men retired for a year of peaceful contemplation before a peaceful departure by chloroform. "As it can be maintained that all the great advances...very large proportion of the evils may be traced to sexagenarians — nearly all the great mistakes, politically and socially; all of the worst poems,...

...into which at 60 men retired for a year of contemplation before a peaceful departure by chloroform. " As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under 40, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the...