Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — Extending the Analogy. [ARTICLE]

Extending the Analogy.

“Ji tell you,” contended the boarder with the bristling hair, “the man who says we ought to live to be a hundred years old is right. Look at the horse. It takes a horse four years to get its growth, and it lives to be twenty. It takes a man twenty years to get his growth, and by the same ratio be ought to live to be a hundred. There are lots of things we can learn from analogy.” “I don’t know but you are right,” responded the unemotional boarder. “For instance, there is the flea. It jumps thirteen hundred times its own length. There is no reason, therefore, why a man six feet high should not be able to jump—let us see—7,Boo feet, or a mile and a half, at one leap. Yes; we can learn a great many curious things from analogy.” But here the conversation drifted to other topics.—Youth's Companion.