The Well-Dressed Woman (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Well-Dressed Woman They fell on sleep and were gathered to their fathers? Whether we accept the Bible narrative verbally or pictorially, we may draw the conclusion that threescore and ten is not the normal period for human existence. It is quite remarkable that the latest researches of physiologists coincide with the Mosaic statements as to the average duration of life. These calculations are based on the duration of life in animals, which is five times the period necessary for reaching mature development. This rule applied to human life, and allowing the period of adolescence to be twenty years, would make the natural life of man one hundred years. This theory is accredited by the history of primitive people whose normal condition is one of muscular vigor. Disease is wholly abnormal, and premature death only the consequence of wounds or protracted fam ine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.