th, his health was so broken and his habits so
fixed that "upon passing the age of thirty-five he had nothing left to
hope for but that he might end in death the suffering of a worn-out
life."

This man, by resolution and temperance, battled with his perverted
habits and became strong and vigorous and happy, and lived to be over
one hundred years of age. "The good old man," said Graziani, "feeling
that he drew near the end, did not look upon the great transit with
fear, but as though he were about to pass from one house into another.
He was seated in his little bed--he used a small and very narrow
one--and, at its side, was his wife, Veronica, almost his equal in
years. In a clear and sonorous voice he told me why he would be able to
leave this life with a valiant soul.... Feeling a little later the
failure of vital force, he exclaimed, 'Glad and full of hope will I go
with you, my good God!' He then composed himself; and having closed his
eyes, as though about to sleep, with a slight sigh, he left us forever."

A new edition of Cornaro's discourses on the temperate life, by William
F. Butler of Milwaukee, has recently been issued under the title of "The
Art of Living Long." The first of these discourses was written at the
age of eighty-three, the second at eighty-six, the third at ninety-one,
and the fourth at ninety-five. His treatises have been popular for all
these centuries.

He held that the older a man grows the wiser he becomes and the more he
knows; and if he will, by temperance and regularity of life and
exercise, preserve his strength, his powers of enjoyment will grow, as
his own did, every year until the end.

"Men are, as a rule," says Cornaro, "very sensual and intemperate, and
wish to gratify their appetites and give themselves up to the commission
of innumerable disorders. When, seeing that they cannot escape suffering
the unavoidable consequences of such intemperance as often as they are
guilty of it, they say--by way of excuse--that it is preferable to live
ten years less and to enjoy life. They do not pause to consider what
immense importance ten years more of life, and especially of healthy
life, possess when we have reached mature age, the time, indeed, at
which men appear to the best advantage in learning and virtue--two
things which can never reach their perfection except with time. To
mention nothing else at present, I shall only say that, in literature
and in the sciences, the majority of t