 My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.  The American Journal of Psychology - Page 573edited by - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1904 - 596 pages
...the credit is still good. . . . My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years old, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial,...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. Donne tells us in his ' Biathanatos ' that, by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Ferdinand Eugene Daniel - Medicine - 1905 - 76 pages
...credit is still good. * * * "My second fixed idea is the iiselessness of men above sixty years old. and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial,...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. Donne tells us in his 'Biathanatos' that, by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall - 1922 - 572 pages
...young men are bringing to the light are false idols or true and noble births. My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. Donne tells us in his "Biathanatos" that by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Harvey Cushing - Biography - 1926 - 754 pages
...thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty — or never. . . . My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. In his ' Biathanatos ' Donne tells us that by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Harvey Cushing - Biography - 1926 - 752 pages
...thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty — or never. . . . My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. In his ' Biathanatos ' Donne tells us that by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Medicine - 1905 - 806 pages
...less does Osier believe in the figurative chloroforming of sexagenarians. " My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life, if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age." We need not take such a statement too literally; Osier certainly did... | |
 | Medicine - 1904 - 778 pages
...young men are bringing to the light are false idols or true and noble births. " My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. Donne tells us in his ' Biathanatos ' that by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Science - 1904 - 604 pages
...the credit is still good. . . . My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years old, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial,...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. Donne tells us in his ' Biathanatos ' that, by the laws of certain wise... | |
 | Medicine, Military - 1920 - 750 pages
...young men are bringing to the light are false idols or true and noble births. My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. . . . The teacher's life should! have three periods, study until twenty-five,... | |
 | Jefferson Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 356 pages
..."The first is the comparative uselessness of men above forty years of age.. ..My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and...and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age." Then, tongue in cheek, he went on: "As it can be maintained that all... | |
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