Article May 15, 1978 Issue

Old age is a myth

ROBERT A. MOSS

So is young age. So is any age.

Shakespeare divides a man's life into seven ages, beginning with "the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms," and ending in "second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." As You Like It, Act II, scene 7;

Another genius, a spiritual genius, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, presents a different man, an immortal man, an ageless man, the real man, God's man. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Even Shakespeare's poetry pictures age as infancy, as helplessness and decadence, instead of assigning to man the everlasting grandeur and immortality of development, power, and prestige." She asserts, "Man in Science is neither young nor old." Science and Health, p. 244;

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