Human Longevity Its Facts And Its Fictions Including An Inquiry Into Some of Th
Human Longevity Its Facts And Its Fictions Including An Inquiry Into Some of Th
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The old man himself has no entry in a bible, or other documentary evidence, in confirmation of his statement ; and his account of his age appears to rest exclusively upon his own memory.
' It is argued in favour of the belief in rare cases of excessive longevity, that they would be in analogy with other ascertained peculiarities of human physiology. There have been men of extraordinary height ; there VEIL] John Pratt. 157 have been minute dwarfs ; there have been men of enormous fatness ; there... have also been men of extreme tenuity. Why then, it is asked, should there not be a few centenarians ? This question may be answered by saying that such a duration of life does not seem, a priori, inconsistent with the laws of nature ; but that the existence of very tall and very short, of very fat and very thin men, is proved by the indubitable evi- dence of eye-witnesses, whereas there is not on record, in published books, any conclusive proof of a life which has been prolonged beyond 100 years, under the exist- ing conditions of our physical nature.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The old man himself has no entry in a bible, or other documentary evidence, in confirmation of his statement ; and his account of his age appears to rest exclusively upon his own memory.
' It is argued in favour of the belief in rare cases of excessive longevity, that they would be in analogy with other ascertained peculiarities of human physiology. There have been men of extraordinary height ; there VEIL] John Pratt. 157 have been minute dwarfs ; there have been men of enormous fatness ; there... have also been men of extreme tenuity. Why then, it is asked, should there not be a few centenarians ? This question may be answered by saying that such a duration of life does not seem, a priori, inconsistent with the laws of nature ; but that the existence of very tall and very short, of very fat and very thin men, is proved by the indubitable evi- dence of eye-witnesses, whereas there is not on record, in published books, any conclusive proof of a life which has been prolonged beyond 100 years, under the exist- ing conditions of our physical nature.
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