BEST WORK AT FIFTY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 266, 13 April 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

BEST WORK AT FIFTY.

One gets rather tired of hearing that this is a "young man's age." It is not. Young men do great work nowadays, and always, have, and always will. But ono does not often see them at the head of the financial or educational or literary world. After so-called "middle ago" most of the world'a great men have done their best work. Hero are one. or two instances :

Darwin, author of "Origin of ■Species," written at the ace of fifty years. Herbert Spencer m.nda a rough outline of his "Sympathetic Philosophy" when forty years old, wrote "Principles of Psychology" when fiftytwo years old, and "Justice'' at s.-von-ty-oiut years. Richard Wagner accomplished more after the age of fifty than before. "Parsifal" was written when ho was sixtyfcur years old. Hadyn composed "The Creation" at sixty-seven years of age, and "Tho Seasons" some vcari later.

Christopher Columbus was fifty-si* when 1.0 discovered America. (loetho d'd most of his literary work after ho had reached sixty-five years. Probably hi.) greatest work was "Faust," the second part of which was written when he was eighty years old.