THEY GIVE UP THINKING EARLY IN LIFE.
When a human being stops thinking, that human being's life
practically ends.
All over the country you may see thousands and hundreds of
thousands of calm, settled, placid-faced, middle-aged women.
They admire themselves and they are admired generally. They
ought to be pitied.
They think now on all subjects just as they thought ten or
twenty or thirty years ago.
They view with horror things which they know nothing about. They
reject opinions which they don't understand; they have unlimited
faith in matters of which they know absolutely nothing. ----
Every one pities a man whose existence and enjoyments are limited
to the physical, sentimental side of life.
We all feel that a man of fifty, unless hard conditions and want
have ground interest and vitality out of him, ought to be at his
best. He ought to be active, alert, OPEN TO NEW IDEAS.
His mind is his one asset, and he should be constantly adding to
his knowledge, to his observation, and therefore he should be
constantly changing his mental point of view.
Many women suffer undoubtedly from the sentimental, physical and
intellectual reaction caused by the cessation of the
responsibility of maternity.
Such passionate affection, devotion and self-sacrifice are
lavished upon the children that when they grow up nothing more
seems worth while except to set them a good example.
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