Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1889 — Longevity in Brain Workers. [ARTICLE]

Longevity in Brain Workers.

Personal statistics singularly pojnt out the fact that hard brain work and unremitting intellectual labor necessarily abbreviate life. If we take poets, we find that Rogers lived to be 93; Sophocles, 90; Calderon, 87; Juvenal, 86; Anacreon, 85; Voltaire, 84; Metastasio, 84; Euripides, 78; Goethe, 83; Klopstock, 79; Wieland, 86; Lamartine, 78; Beranger, 77; and Victor Hugo, 83. If we turn to philosophers an<\ men of science, we find among onr contemporaries M. Chevreul, the French philosopher and chemist, who, on the evening of his 100th birthday, occupied the President’s box at the opera; and if we look into the past, we find the names of Fontenelle, who died at 100; Hoyle (who wrote the treatise on whist), at 98; Hobbes, at 92; Morgagni, at 89; Hied, at 86; Dr. Heberden, at 90; Sir T. Watson, at 90 (?); Sir William Lawrence, at 84; RoverCollard, at 82; William Harvefc, at 80; Schelling, at 79; Cousin, at 76; ami, greatest of all, Plato, at 82.