LIVING FOR EVER

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7908, 28 September 1929, Page 4

LIVING FOR EVER

SAID TO BE POSSfBLE BY PROFESSOR PERMANENT YOUTH LONDON, July 27. Professor F. A. E. Crew, of Edinburgh University, speaking at the Social Hygiene School at Combridge, England, said : It has been abundantly demonstrated that life can, and daes, continue without ceasing. It is possible to take a fab worm and by repeated processes of starvation keep it alive 20 times longer than it would have lived in the ordinary way. A man knows the causes of ageing, the cause of the loss of the proteins, and when he knows the methods by which that loss may be replaced ho may prolong his life indefinitely. As knowledge increases as increase it must, so also will man’s power over bis physical environment and over the mechanism that is himself. Science as well as religion affirms that in the future mankind may if it be so desired, not only remain permanently youthful, but also may live for over. The opinion of the scientist is no more extravagant than the creed of the theologist. The scientist will give to manking the power to control the mechanism that drivees him to his destiny. Mankind will be able to choose for himselj what that destiny shal be. What will it be ! That is the question that we and our shildren’s children must answer.