THE INTIMATE CAUSES OF OLD 

 AGE AND ORGANIC DEATH. 



EXAMINED WITH A VIEW TO THEIR ALLEVIATION AND 

 ULTIMATE REMOVAL. 



/''^LASSIC fable records the catastrophe of the Earth- 

 ^-^ born who, rashly importunate, strove to scale 

 Heaven ; and Hindu sages have taught that the Lords of 

 Life and Death have jealously delimited their realms and 

 shut the doors, lest mortals pass the forbidden thresholds ; 

 that in the present orbited order of matter and the cosmos, 

 death must follow fast on life, till the order ends ; till 

 orbital motion unlooses its swift arcs and the bright, huge- 

 grown orbs rarify in the fire-dust of another universal 

 nebula. Not till then may the Lords of Life and Death 

 loose our mortal bonds. 



Yet even in most ancient days there lived a Prome- 

 theus, an ^sculapius, an Epicurus. 



" Him neither fear of the Gods, nor thunder-bolts, in- 

 timidated, nor portents in the skies, but rather roused the 

 innate courage of his soul, that he should be the first to 

 break down the jealously guarded portals." 



What man has dared, man will dare again and more. 



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