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ll others
run into this one. We call it by many names―feverin-
temperanceinsanitystupidity and crime; they are all
forms of old age; they are restconservatismappropria-
tioninertia; not newnessnot the way onward. We grizzle
every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with
what is above uswe do not grow oldbut grow young.
Infancyyouthreceptiveaspiringwith religious eye look-
ing upwardcounts itself nothing and abandons itself to
the instruction flowing from all sides. But the man and
woman of seventy assume to know allthey have out-
lived their hopethey renounce aspirationaccept the
actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let
themthenbecome organs of the Holy Ghost; let them
be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are up-
liftedtheir wrinkles smoothedthey are perfumed again
with hope and power. This old age ought not to creep on
a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past
is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is
sacred. Nothing is secure but lifetransitionthe ener-
gizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant
to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime
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