Their value suggestive but only for a class--(1) Age and effect of the first realization of the approach of old age--(2) To what do you ascribe your long life?--(3) How do you keep well?--(4) Are you troubled by regrets?--(5) What temptations do you feel, old or new?--(6) What duties do you feel you still owe to others or to self?--(7) Is interest in public affairs for the far future and past, as compared with what is closer at hand, greater or less?-- (8) In what do you take your greatest pleasures?--(9) Do you enjoy the society of children, youth, adults, those of your own age more or less than formerly?--(10) Would you live your life over again?--(11) Did you experience an “Indian summer” of renewed vigor before the winter of age began?--(12) Do you rely more or less upon doctors than formerly?--(13) Do you get more or less from the clergy and the church than formerly?--(14) Do you think more or less of dying and the hereafter?--A few individual returns from eminent people. VIII. SOME CONCLUSIONS 366 The early decades of age--The deadline of seventy-- The patheticism of the old--The attitude of physicians toward them--Fluctuations of youth--Erotic decline-- Alternations in the domain of sleep, food, mood, irritability, rational self-control, and sex--The dawn of old age in women--Dangers of the disparity when December weds May--Sexual hygiene for the old--Mental effects of the dulling of sensations--Lack of mental pabulum-- The tedium vitæ--Changes in the emotional life--Age not second childhood--Women in the dangerous age--Need of a new and higher type of old age--Aristotle’s golden mean and the magnanimous man--The age of disillusion-- Increased power of synthesis--Nature’s balance between old and young--Superior powers of the old in perspective and larger views--New love of nature and the country--Their preëminence in religion, politics, philosophy, morals, and as judges--Looking within and without--Merging with the cosmos. XI. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH 439