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G. Stanley Hall. Senescence, the Last Half of Life
Senescence, the Last Half of Life
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
SENESCENCE. CHAPTER I. THE YOUTH OF OLD AGE
CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF OLD AGE
CHAPTER III. LITERATURE BY AND ON THE AGED
CHAPTER IV. STATISTICS OF OLD AGE AND ITS CARE
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CHAPTER V. MEDICAL VIEWS AND TREATMENT OF OLD AGE
CHAPTER VI. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
CHAPTER VII. REPORT ON QUESTIONNAIRE RETURNS
CHAPTER VIII. SOME CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER IX. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH
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G. Stanley Hall
Published by Good Press, 2022
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The theme of Rostand’s Chanticleer is the disillusion of that gorgeous barnyard fowl from the fond and at first secret conviction, which he later confessed to the pheasant hen, that it was his crowing that brought in the dawn and that if he failed in this function the world would lie in darkness. The tragedy of the play is the slow conviction that the sun could rise without him. In Nietzsche we see the exact reverse of this process. His delusions of greatness grew with years and eventually passed all bounds of sanity. He became jealous of Jesus and came to believe that he had brought the world a new dispensation and that his own work would some time be recognized as the dawn of a new era.
Robert Raymond22 thinks it is pleasant to lie at anchor a while in port before setting sail for the last long voyage to the unknown. The passage from late youth to middle age has many of the same traits as growing old. We suddenly realize, perhaps in a flash, that life is no longer all before us. When youth begins to die it fights and struggles. The panic is not so much that we cannot do handsprings, but we have to compromise with our youthful hopes. We have been out of college perhaps twenty years. Napoleon lost Waterloo at 45, Dickens had written all his best at 40, and Pepys finished his diary at 37. We lose the sense of superfluous time and must hurry. We feel the futility of postponements and accept the philosophy of the second best as not so bad. We become more tolerant toward others and perhaps toward ourselves. We must not be too serious or yearn too much for a lost youth. It is like the first anticipations of fall in the summer.
