2o6 Natural Salvation. 



would be inaugurated ; and if the world and the social 

 system offered afield for this (as in future it will do), 

 then the stasis of advanced life would not set in ; human 

 beings at fifty would be seen brightening up for a higher, 

 stronger life, with better, loftier ideals. 



The chief obstacle to this at present, is not that these 

 new cycles of brain developmeht cannot be initiated, but 

 that the world and society offer no field for it ; the hostile 

 presence of the younger generation pushes the adult gen- 

 eration off the stage of life. What is needed for pro- 

 longed life of the individual is field for him to live and 

 develop. 



We have abundant evidence in numerous observed 

 instances, that, at the age of fifty, sixty, or eighty, the 

 human brain may enter on a new curriculum of study, 

 growth, and achievement ; and that, pari passu, with this 

 new effort, the cpU life of the whole organism has been 

 notably quickened and strengthened. For it is ever the 

 brain life which quickens, sustains, and maintains the life 

 of the othei* organs and apparatuses of the animal organism. 



A provisional importance must therefore be attributed to 

 the argument for the psychic cause of old age. To the 

 writer it is at least apparent that the first step toward 

 the achievement of deathless life will be from the psychic 

 side. 



The assumption that the brain, progressively, is duUed 

 by multiplex mnemonic impression founds on the idea 



