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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Michelangelo was seventy-two years old when he was appointed chief archietct of St. Peter’s,' and commissioned to embellish the greatest temple in the world with his paintings and statues. For eighteen years he continued this work which made his fame as imperishable as the church itself.
Toward the end, when his eyesight failed and he had become feeble, he had his servants carry him into the great halls and galler—ies and chapels where he had labored with such vim and enthusiasm. He would run his hands over the statues and carvings, feeling out with his dexterous fingers the details which his eyes could no longer see, and having done so, he often exclaimed, “I still learn.” We are told that he smiled when _he said it. ss^The-i^gaFwhSh^msuallwds tas= ken from this sidelight is that man is never too old to learn—or should not be. But there is a better tip for all of us in the indication that he was happy in the realization that progress was still ahead The grumpish man lives in the past and defies improvements over the superiorty of the yesterdays. Some men arrive at the deadline of knowledge at sixty, some at fifty, and quite a few at forty. Age alone has little to do with it. It is reached when one no longer can smile as he compares his past perfor_mance with the prospects of further improvement.
—Alfred W. Brandt
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