"Senescence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into the psychology of a people through observation of the infantile delight with which the adult population here throws itself into the spirit of amusements which with other nations are for the most part reserved for school-children. Only a race either in childhood or senescence, it would seem, could thus give itself over with undisguised delight to the enchantments of wooden horses, cattle, cats, and pigs; to the catching of wooden fish with hooks; to the shooting at targets that one ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams |
