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Updated: June 13, 2025
By the time most men reach mid-life they are entirely dependent upon exterior promptings for their mental activity the passage entirely closed between their intrinsic content and the brain that interprets. Solitary confinement makes madmen of such if the door cannot be wrenched ajar. The human brain is like a sieve, every brain differently meshed.
But all these things he found out at Suakim! Moreover, it had not occurred to him to think deeply on the fact that fighting meant rushing at a fellow-man whose acquaintance he had not made before; against whom he had not the slightest feeling of ill-will, and skewering him with a bayonet, or sending a bullet into him which would terminate his career in mid-life, and leave a wife and children perhaps a mother also disconsolate.
When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience; the week gone by is already far in retrospect of things learnt, and that to come, especially if it foretell some joy, lingers in remoteness. Past mid-life, one learns little and expects little. To-day is like unto yesterday, and to that which shall be the morrow.
HYGIENIC RULE. The man at mid-life should guard carefully his passions and the husband his virile powers, and as the years progress, steadily wean himself more from his desire, for his passions will become weaker with age and any excitement in middle life may soon debilitate and destroy his virile powers. FOLLIES OF YOUTH. Dr.
He thought more specially of men celebrated in great industries, who had accumulated power beyond measure, millions almost beyond count what extravagantly mad outlets they turned to! The captains of steel, of finance, were old, spent, before they were fifty, broken by machinery and strain in mid-life, by a responsibility in which they were like pig iron in an open hearth furnace.
Worse than the gauntlet of measles and whooping-cough and mumps which the little ones have to run is this parental outrage. What a struggle in life that child will have who has been baptized Jedekiah or Mehitabel! If a child is "called after" some one living, let that one be past mid-life and of such temperament that there shall be no danger of his becoming an absconder and a cheat.
Whence he had originally come, no one had ever persuaded him to tell. On his first arrival in the district, which was reported to have taken place nearly forty years ago, for the first two years he was said to have conducted himself more or less like a normal man. At that time he must have been near mid-life, for he was now well past seventy to judge by his appearance.
Stoneleigh's mother would probably be cited as the guilty one. The way of least resistance is usually pretty easy- going, and keeps within the valley of indulgence. Therefore, Mrs. Stoneleigh worked none, was a true helpmate to her husband, at the table, and like him, grew fat, and from mid-life waddled on, with her hundred and eighty pounds.
Any man in the Hills could do it. Indeed it was a necessity. There was not a branded bullock in all this cattle land. What need for the barbaric custom when every man knew his cattle as he knew his children? Later on, when little men came, at mid-life, to herding on the plains, they were compelled to burn a mark on their cattle.
People, in fact, who have failed at many things, have settled down in mid-life and written books that brought much money. But such are only incidents.
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