Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — WORKS OF OLD AGE. [ARTICLE]

WORKS OF OLD AGE.

Butler wrote “Hpdibras" after he was 60. Dryden wrote the famous “Fables" at 49. Sir Thomas Moore finished his “Utopia” at 73. Josephus published his “Wars of the Jews” at 56. Homer is said to have composed the Iliad after 60. Robert Browning wrote * 'The Bing and the. Book” at 57. Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations” at 55. Humboldt finished his giant work, the “Cosmos,” at 82. Hugh Miller published “The Testimony of the Rocks” at 55. Washington Irving’s “‘Life of Washington” was written at 72. ~ Danial Defoe was 58 when lie began his “Robinson Crusoe.” According to the Talmud Daniel wrote his first prophecy at 50. Thucydides wrote his “History of the Peloponesian War” after 50. John Locke finished the “Essay on the Human Understanding” at 58. Chaucer is thought to have written the “Canterbw Tales” after he was 50. Emanuel Swedenborg’s “Arcana Coelestia” was printed when the author was 61. Immanuel Knot’s “Critique of Pure Reason” appeared when the author was 57. According to tradition Moses wrote the book of Job at 70 and finished the Law at 120. John is said to have written the Gospel which bears his name at 60 Book of Revelations at 95. Juvenal first recited his satires in Eublic at 80. He was supposed to ave attacked the actor Paris, the favorite ofDomitian; was sent to Egypt to command a cohort of infantry, and died of vexation at this honorable exile.