The prolongation of life / by R.E. Dudgeon.

  • Robert Ellis Dudgeon
Date:
1900
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The prolongation of life / by R.E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Old men naturally think that young men should listen deferentially to them when they give advice—as they are fond of doing unasked—on subjects within the range of their experience, which they are inclined to think must be valuable. But young men may not value the advice or opinions of the old so highly as the latter do. Young men remember that their aged friends were born and brought up in an unscientific age, before steamships were built, before gas and elec- tricity were used for domestic purposes, before railroads and locomotives were in- vented, before photography was practised, before lucifer matches were thought of. Whereas the men of to-day were born and brought up in a scientific age, so they must possess more knowledge and wisdom than their seniors, and are therefore more fit to give than receive advice. So they naturally resent the assumption of superiority by those whom they regard as belonging to the dark ages. Thus an old man leads a rather solitary
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