MAN ONLY INFANT AT NINETY
Received Tlmrsdav, 11.20 p.m. i NEW YORlv, July 25. G. B. ttjiaw believes people can and sliould live to at least 30(1 years wliicl. is the necessary span of wortliwliih iiuinan lit'e. * The dramatist's vievvs on longevity are contained in an inteiview published by the Review of Literature. ftliaw dc clared that a lifetinie of three centuries is essential for politieal maturity. Death was not to be regarded a--naturally iuevitable. " We die beeause we dou't know how to live and kill ourselves by letiial habits, " he said. "Mortalily sliould be conlined to imir der, suicide and accidonts. Life at present is too short to be taken serious ]y. Give a nian only 70 years and he sings, 'Let's eat, drink and be merry for tomor'row we die.' I lived to 89 and I am not yet fully adult politicallv Give nie a second eentury of apprenlieeship as a ruler and at the end of it 1 may be qnalitied as a senator and an oracle for a third eentury. I don 't ad mit anv limit to human life except the statistically eertain fatal accident."
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1946, Page 5
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