LONGEVITY AND GENIUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1952, 10 January 1885, Page 4

LONGEVITY AND GENIUS.

fto f.-ir from !k in<r opposed to lone \ ity, an examination will show that in t:i.' rank of hii>n:in attainment mi'MUil ability of every kind lias fomvi a wiMi length <>t life to nn almost astonishing degree. W r e may take the names of the representative men of .•'inrnirk' 1 in the French compilation i>ii nvii as the '• Hundred Greatest Men. , ' w uli .*o-ne additional names of equal w'iiilit —some of them shortliw.l— Mosi-m, I*2o (?) : Homer old, but e\a<:t au'C unknown ; Pythagoras, <!>!(<> ; I'jiiddlia, over SO; Zoroaster, ditto ; rnit'i! -;:i .■;, 7- ; .Ivwhylns, (if); Pindar, 7'j ; >.|m;.' !f.s, !>t) ; Pericles, 70 : Phidias, .111 : 1.'.-ro'iotus, 88; Euripides, 74 ; TiiUi'V'ii'iiv*, (i:) ; Socrates, 70 ; HippiiciiUu.-;, IO.'J ; Aristophanes, G4 ; Plato, M ; Demosthenes, (53 • Aristotle, (!..' : !'■ i;i;.:L-, ', 0 , Alrx:ui'lcr the Urcir, ;;:'. ; Vt. ii.uidi'i , , 51 : Aivhimedes, 75 ; If uinii';■, <i 4 ; Cicero, f>3; Ciosar, jVi : l.icivtiiio, i!) ; Virgil, 51 ; .;lo!\u-e, 7:5 ; Ovid, G2 ; St Paul, iilioiit GO ; Plutarch, 70 ; Tacitus, GO; t.uin, 70; Augiutiiic, S!) ; Maho.ii.'t, (jJ ; CVi.-irlemagne, 72 ; Alfred the < tivat. <»2 ; William the Conqueror, 60 ; Si Bernard, 02 ; St Francis of A' ; M;i, -it; St Dominic, 51 ; Roger BijiiD, 7"> ; St Thomas Aquinas, 47 ; Dint..-, s'j ; Petrarch, 70 ; WyclilTe, Hi! ; l> j?it,u'cio, i>2 ; Chaucer, 72, I'Yoio.s-si t, 7;i ; a Kempis, 91 ; GuterIktv, i;s ; Columbus, 70 ; Savonarola, ■Hi ; L •(••lardo da Vinci, 07 ; Erasmus, 7'l : ('..jpernicus, 70; Ariosto, 59; Mi'.-!ia..-l Aiig«?lo, Si) ; Titian, 96 ; "J.'ipliae!, 37 ; Luther, G3 ; Loyola, Go ; <''iiTeggiy, 40; RiibL'lias, 5S ; Ciiarles V., 5S ; Calvin, 53 ; Palissy, SO ; 55 ; Montaigne, 5!) ; William the Silent, 51 ; Cervantes, 09 ; Spenser. 47; Francis B.icon, GO; Shakspere, £>■_'; (lilileo, 7S ; Kepler, 59 ; Rubens, 03 ; Harvey, 7!' ; Richelieu, 57 ; (allot, 42 ; Descartes, 54 ; Cromwell, r>!) ; ("Maude Lorraine, SO ; Corueille, 7S ; It-.'iubraudt, (52 ; Milton, 06 ; Murilio, (it ; Urn-rocks, 2? ; Lafoiitaino, 74 ; M:ilierif, 51 ; l.asstiet, 77 ; Banyan, (i;) ; I. ■■•'<'■, 7- ; Spinoza, 45 : Racine, (ID ; X.'.r.in, 85 ; Leibnitz, OS ; D.:l'i>-, 70 ; Peti:r the (Jreat, 53 ; B.;rk.'l.:y. Gi) ; !siuh, 65 ; Handel, 74 ; Sue k'nlnrg, St ; Moutusqnieu. 00 ; Voltiin:, S4: H<-.,'irth, (57; Wesley, SS ; Friinkln, St; Liniucus, 71 ; Hume, 05; Fivdtvi.-k t!i- Croat, 74; Diderot, 71: «'iin !•:'<, {>:;-, Kuit, HO; Howard, 04; f< ;<::,:'. ~>Z ; Arkwriirht/GO; Washingre :i, i;; ; W; : ?t, SI ; (fibbon, 57 ; Montg.)!.i'.-. 7!!; L-".'oi.ii;:r, 51 ; JetTerson, S3 ; (I-j-sh-, 5. , ! ; Crainplon, 74; Mozart, 35; N> 1•• i>ii, 47 ; Schiller, 4;i; Uurns, 37 ; Til,.i.-., (;-,; Dalrou, 7S ; Wellington, 8S ; * J;. ■»■ i-T, U-'I ; Napoleon, O.J; Beethoven, oS ; S,-.,'.t, (H ; "Kiciii'.t, :)\ ; Stephenh'ii, (JT ; Jj-ilivai , , 47 ; Ke:in, 4ii : J\ :■.:•:■ I, '-'7■ Tμ-: I\'.-'m!c is a liht o; I ;:; ,i m , >>:■.; of t.'; ; > !ii..-!wst dia-ti'!':!i'j-i i.i every 'i<j;;n tni'iil; of lifo, and spread over a long track of ecutun-!. , Or tiiri.'tt tiie iigi* at death is not known, 'out ;h y were advanced in years ; ten d:e>l uii'ler 40 : nine at or before .")'); .'!:) ;it or b-jfore liO ; fifty at or before 7" : and tv.'tnty-si.'i Jit or before S'); whilst >ixti" n survived threescore and tuii. and -ioiiu ;ir>> ciC'liccd with being ciitcii iii.ins Out of tit-.; entire number of 1 }.'!, only iiiiHLiji.n p,ru ri'Cjr>ii-d a-> liavin.: did before th'.-y were 50 ; whilst J:'l c\'j L'ik'.i that v.j'i. The results are wli.it e'linmoii ."cii.-i! w«>iil.l lend us to (;.\pt:ct, !'■>!'althougii physical strength or even health is not by any means identical with mental power, yet intellectual ability in it* highest form is coincident v/itii a strong vitality aud power of endurance and persistence.