Excerpt from Deucalion Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones, Vol. 1

I have been glancing lately at many biographies, and have been much struck by the number of deaths which occur between the ages of fifty and sixty, (and, for the most part, in the earlier half of the decade,) in cases where the brain has been much used emotionally: or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, where the heart, and the faculties of perception connected with it, have stimulated the brain-action. Supposing such excitement to be temperate, equable, and joyful, I have no doubt the tendency of it would be to prolong, rather than depress, the vital energies.

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