Editorial June 12, 1995 Issue

The prime of life

Mark Swinney

"The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age."

Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 246)

The second part of that statement seems obvious enough. Considering a person's life to be confined within a short span of time and subject to inevitable decline would certainly give "ugliness to age." In the years after what is judged to be the so-called prime of life, is the whole of man subject to deterioration?

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