# Senescence, the Last Half of Life

Author: Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924

Genre: Category: Psychiatry/Psychology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66534

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Senescence%2C+the+Last+Half+of+Life+Hall&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The turn of the tide of life--Relative amount and importance of work accomplished before and after forty--The sexual life at the turn of the tide in man and woman--Osler’s views and critics (E. G. Dexter, D. A. N. Dorland, E. S. P. Haynes)--Illustrations from Tolstoi, Fechner, Comte, Swedenborg--The typical cases of Segantini, Lenau, von Kleist, de Maupassant, Gogol, Scheffel, Ruskin and Nietzsche--Michaëlis’s “dangerous age” in women--The difficulty in determining this age--The nature of the changes, conscious and unconscious, and the lessons that people in this stage of life should lay to heart--H. G. Wells and Ross.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter I. This touch of autumn in August, however, rarely brings frost](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter VI. Both youth and age seek truth and thrill when they feel](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part V of this Pentateuch is dated A.D. 31,920. Children are now born](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/senescence-the-last-half-of-life-66534/chapters/8/index.md)