Excerpt from To You!, Vol. 4: A Magazine for the Discriminating Individual That Develops and Enhances the Art of Living Here and Hereafter; April, 1937 Growing old is a diffusion of energy which in living things, and apparently in those feel ings and institutions into which men transfer their life energy, takes a special form, and follows a typical pattern. This process will not retrace itself for us and though that fact is hard to accept, it does give us an advantage in our fight against time. For it compels us to realize that what is here and now is what we have to fight for. In every field we fight time by a concentration on whatever the liv ing thing exists for. In a cathedral that was for the glory of God and not the vanity of man. When that fact was lost sight of gothic art passed into senile decay. In love it is for the fusion of two lives to keep their emotions young, and when that fusion becomes secondary to lesser purposes, the energy has become random in form and love dies. In a govern ment it is for maintaining the youth of the spirit of a culture. When that is lost sight of the government grows old. In all these cases the essence of. The process is the increase in random forms of activity, and-that fact seems to give us a general and usable law of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.