1878

Harlow's name, which should have appeared in the In Memoriam column two months ago, will be found there in this month's issue. The delay is doubtless due to its reaching Dr. Comstock after his much regretted resignation as Editor of that column. It was sent him just before notice of his retirement was received.

....Election news is gratifying to all five survivors of '78, although we are not quite sure what its effect is to be on United Nations' progress. We hope for the best No particular news about any of us. We are all slipping a little. The reverse of the climb is interesting for us to review. Our memories do not go quite back to the beginning. We had already acquired some sense of balance which we are now losing; some means of grinding food, accompanied with conscious pain, a function we are now losing (or have already lost) that loss too attended by pain; a sense of independence of others, now being lost; later a realization of the interdependence of mankind which continues to grow, and is beginning to be applied to national relations. Early memories tell of achievements in donning of the garments of the day, later becoming automatic, now again becoming matters of conscious decision and even of forgetfulness. Also a matter of memory is the gradual acquirement of control of physical processes, now again becoming uncertain. The lines of the winding and unwinding of the clock of life are curiously parallel.

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