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besant-inner-1888	besant	besant-inner-1888	1888		.txt	text/plain	60116	3717	85	Again, formerly, there would have been old men and old women looking with melancholy eyes on the scenes they were about to quit, and lamenting the days of their strength and their youth. Cannot, I ask again--cannot Science prolong the Vital Force, and stay the destroying hand of Decay? At this point a wonderful passion seized upon many of the people present; for some sprang to their feet and lifted hands and shouted, some wept aloud, some clasped each other by the hand; there were lovers among the crowd who fell openly into each other's arms; there were men of learning who hugged imaginary books and looked up with wild eyes; there were girls who smiled, thinking that their beauty might last longer than a day; there were women down whose cheeks rolled the tears of sorrow for their vanished beauty; there were old men who heard and trembled.	cache/besant-inner-1888.txt	txt/besant-inner-1888.txt