But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Heb. 2:6<\/i><\/p>\n
3257<\/b> Worth Of A Man<\/b><\/p>\n
It has been estimated that the chemical contents (inorganic compounds) of a 150 lbs. man is worth:<\/p>\n
\u2014in the 1930s 98\u00a2<\/p>\n
\u2014in the 1960s $3.50<\/p>\n
\u2014in the 1970s $5.60<\/p>\n
Over 60% of the body weight is water, which would be free. <\/p>\n
3258<\/b> Education Raises Man\u2019s Value<\/b><\/p>\n
How much is a man worth? According to the Institute of Life Insurance, it all depends upon the education he gets. <\/p>\n
The Institute values a man in terms of potential life income. A grade school graduate can expect to earn in a normal lifetime $219,000; a high school graduate, $303,000; a college graduate, $444,000. <\/p>\n
3259<\/b> Worth Of \u201cEnergetic\u201d Man<\/b><\/p>\n
Not long ago the worth of a man was assessed at ninety-eight cents. Now, with atomic power in view, this has all changed. Someone has figured that the atoms in the human body would produce 11,400,000 kilowatts of power per pound if they could be harnessed. On this basis of computation, a man weighing 150 pounds is worth $85,500,000,000. <\/p>\n
3260<\/b> A Six-Million Dollar Man<\/b><\/p>\n
When biochemist Harold J. Morowitz of Yale University received a humorous birthday card from his daughter that read: \u201cAccording to biochemists, the materials that make up the human body are worth only ninety-eight cents,\u201d he reached for a catalog of a supply company and began looking up prices. <\/p>\n
It turns out the human body is actually A Six Million Dollar Man. <\/p>\n
Hemoglobin is $285 a gram; insulin, $47.50 a gram; purified trypsin (an enzyme), $36; bilirubin, the bile pigment, $12; human DNA, $76; collagen, $15; human albumin, $3. <\/p>\n
Some less common constituents: Acetate kinase, a substance that activates an enzyme, $8,860 a gram; alkaline phosphatase, $225; hyaluronic acid, the cement substance of the hyaluronic acid, the cement substance of the tissues, $175; bradykinin (amino acids), $12,000. <\/p>\n
A real shocker came when he got to follicle-stimulating hormone\u2014$8 million a gram\u2014a gift he suggests for people who have everything. For the really wealthy, there is proclactin, the hormone that stimulates milk production in the breast glands\u2014$17.5 million a gram. <\/p>\n
Calculating the percentage of each chemical in the composition of the human body, Morowitz arrived at $245.54 as the average value per gram of human being. <\/p>\n
He then weighed himself: 168 pounds or 79,364 grams. Since man is 68 percent water, his dry weight was 24,436 grams. Multiplying that by $245.54 came to $6,000,015.44. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an enormous upgrade to my ego after the 98-cent evaluation,\u201d Morowitz wrote in the journal Hospital Practice<\/i>. <\/p>\n
3261<\/b> Valued At 3\u00a2 Each<\/b><\/p>\n
Three cents? That was the value placed on eighteen human lives in one case in this \u201cenlightened\u201d generation. It seems that two families near Cairo shared the same water pump. When it needed repairs, a quarrel arose over payment of the bill. One thing led to another until bullets began to fly. When the smoke cleared, there were nine dead from each family. The total repair bill for the pump was fifty-five cents. <\/p>\n
\u2014Stanley C. Baldwin<\/p>\n
THE LIFE OF MAN<\/p>\n
3262<\/b> Life Expectancy In Early Days<\/b><\/p>\n
From a 19th-century report:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe yearly mortality of the globe is 40,000,000 persons. This is at the rate of over 100,000 per day. The average of human life is 33 years. One-fourth of the population die at or before the age of 7; one half at or before 17. Among 10,000 persons, one arrives at the age of 100 years. One in 500 attains the age of 90, and one in 100 to the age of 60. <\/p>\n
3263<\/b> Present-Day Life Expectancy<\/b><\/p>\n
The highest present-day life expectancy belongs to the women in Norway (77 years) and the men in Sweden (72 years). <\/p>\n
In most European countries and the America\u2019s, men and women can expect to live to be over 60. On the other hand, most African countries report life expectancy of under 50 years. <\/p>\n
3264<\/b> Seven Stages Of Man<\/b><\/p>\n
1. Milk<\/p>\n
2. Milk, vegetables<\/p>\n
3. Milk, ice cream sodas, candy<\/p>\n
4. Steak, Coke, French fries, ham and eggs<\/p>\n
5. Frogs\u2019 legs, caviar, Crepe Suzettes, Champagne<\/p>\n
6. Milk and crackers<\/p>\n
7. Milk<\/p>\n
3265<\/b> Life\u2019s Key Words<\/b><\/p>\n
1\u201320 years\u2014learning<\/p>\n
20\u201330 years\u2014ladies<\/p>\n
30\u201340 years\u2014living<\/p>\n
40\u201350 years\u2014liberty<\/p>\n
50\u201360 years\u2014leisure<\/p>\n
60\u201370 years\u2014living<\/p>\n
\u2014Speaker\u2019s Sourcebook<\/i><\/p>\n
3266<\/b> Life String<\/b><\/p>\n
Someone has put it consecutively: apron strings, heart strings, purse strings, harp strings. <\/p>\n
3267<\/b> Names For Each Decade<\/b><\/p>\n
The Chinese apply certain terms to different ages. The age ten is called the opening degree; twenty, youth expired; thirty, strength and marriage; forty, officially apt; fifty, error-knowing; sixty, cycle-closing; seventy, rare bird of age; eighty, rusty-visaged; ninety, delayed; one hundred, age\u2019s extremity. <\/p>\n
3268<\/b> Life\u2019s Viewpoints<\/b><\/p>\n
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. <\/p>\n
3269<\/b> \u201cLittle Man\u201d To \u201cOld Gentleman\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
In his essay \u201cThree Score and Ten,\u201d Stephen Leacock wrote about reaching 70:<\/p>\n
The path through life from youth to age, you may trace for yourself by the varying way in which strangers address you. You begin as \u201clittle man,\u201d then \u201clittle boy\u201d (because a little man is littler than a little boy), then \u201csonny,\u201d then \u201cmy boy,\u201d and after that \u201cyoung man\u201d and presently the interlocutor is younger than yourself and says, \u201csay, mister.\u201d<\/p>\n
I can still recall the thrill of pride I felt when a Pullman porter first called me \u201cdoctor\u201d and when another raised me to \u201cjudge\u201d and then the terrible shock it was when a taximan swung open his door and said, \u201cStep right in, Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presently I shall be introduced as \u201cthis venerable old gentleman\u201d and the ax will fall when they raise me to the degree of \u201cgrand old man.\u201d That means on our continent anyone with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till 80. That\u2019s the last and the worst they can do to you. <\/p>\n
3270<\/b> Everyone OK<\/b><\/p>\n
In his book I\u2019m OK\u2014You\u2019re OK<\/i>, Dr. Thomas A. Harris says that there are four basic attitudes toward life: The newborn infant feels helpless in relation to his all-powerful parents, dispensers of food, warmth and happiness, and soon gets the idea, \u201cI\u2019m not OK\u2014you\u2019re OK.\u201d He either retains this outlook or acquires another. <\/p>\n
When he realizes his parents\u2019 \u201cfallibility\u201d he may think either, \u201cI\u2019m not OK\u2014you\u2019re not OK\u201d (an attitude of hopelessness\u2014the individual is worthless and so is everyone else), or \u201cI\u2019m OK\u2014you\u2019re not OK\u201d (a psychotically criminal conclusion\u2014the attitude that only the indivitual is right). <\/p>\n
The mature adult then grows into the attitude that both he and others are basically worthwhile. \u201cI\u2019m OK\u2014you\u2019re OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
3271<\/b> The Sphinx\u2019 Riddle<\/b><\/p>\n
The sphinx in ancient mythology was supposed to have propounded a riddle: \u201cWhat animal goes on four legs in the morning, on two at noonday, and on three in the evening?\u201d The riddle remained unsolved till Oedipus appeared and gave the right answer\u2014\u201cMan.\u201d In infancy the human babe goes on all fours; during life\u2019s course he walks upright on two legs; and in the eventide of life he leans on a staff. <\/p>\n
The sphinx, frustrated at the solution of her riddle, cast herself down from the pedestal and died. <\/p>\n
3272<\/b> Epigram On Man (Life of)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, commenting on a pet project of his, the establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan: \u201cUntil I was 30, I wanted to save the world. Between the ages of 30 and 60, I wanted to save the country. But since I was 60, I\u2019ve wanted to save the dunes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Quote<\/i><\/p>\n
TALKING ABOUT HEIGHTS<\/p>\n
3273<\/b> More Poundage To Take Care? <\/b><\/p>\n
Once an American life insurance company made an analysis of nearly 270,000 policies that it had issued to white males and discovered an unknown and unexplainable fact. It was found that there was a direct relationship between the height of the insured and the amount of his insurance. With each additional inch of the men\u2019s height, the average face value of their policies increased proportionately\u2014from $2,979 for men of just five feet to $5,906 for men of six feet, five inches. <\/p>\n
3274<\/b> People Now Taller<\/b><\/p>\n
Present-day adolescents weigh more, and are somewhat taller than those of a few decades ago. For example, the young men entering service in World War II were, on an average about 2\/3 inch taller and about 10 pounds heavier than those accepted in World War I. <\/p>\n
Increases in height and weight have been observed in many comparisons of college students with those of the preceding generation. A comparison of heights of mothers and daughters who attended college showed that on the average, the daughters were 1\u20131\/8 inches taller. <\/p>\n
3275<\/b> Tall In South, Short In Northeast<\/b><\/p>\n
The four states with the tallest men\u2014Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Tennessee\u2014are in the South Central Region of the country. The seven states with the shortest men\u2014Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New Hampshire\u2014are in the Northeast Region of the country. <\/p>\n
3276<\/b> Heights By Ethnic Groups<\/b><\/p>\n
Of the various ethnic groups within the United States, the Scottish, with an average height of 5 feet, 8 inches, were the tallest among the men demobilized after the war. Shorter than they, in order, were the English, Germans, Irish, Poles, French, Jews, and Italians, the last with an average of 5 feet, 5 inches. <\/p>\n
3277<\/b> Pepin The Short<\/b><\/p>\n
It is recorded that Pepin the Short (714\u2013768), king of the Franks, who was only 4\u00bd feet tall, carried a sword 6 feet long. He was the father of Charlemagne and a mighty swordsman in spite of the disproportion. <\/p>\n
3278<\/b> Romulo Versus Napoleon<\/b><\/p>\n
Philippine Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo, who measures only five-foot-four, says he lost self-consciousness about his height when he visited Madame Tussaud\u2019s London Wax Museum and discovered that he was two inches taller than Napoleon. He promptly junked his elevator shoes. <\/p>\n
Napoleon Bonaparte was barely 5 feet, 2 inches in height. After the Battle of Lodi in 1796, he became known as \u201cthe Little Corporal\u201d because of his amazing bravery. <\/p>\n
3279<\/b> Wilberforce\u2019s Handicap<\/b><\/p>\n
Wilberforce did not like himself. He was a diminutive edition of a man and never enjoyed good health. For twenty years he was under doctor\u2019s orders and had to take drugs to keep body and soul together. Yet he stopped the British slave trade. Boswell once went to hear him speak and said afterward: \u201cI saw what seemed a mere shrimp and mounted upon the platform, but as I listened, he grew and grew till the shrimp became a whale.\u201d<\/p>\n
The most stimulating successes in history have come from persons who, facing some kinds of limitations and handicaps, succeeded in spite of all. <\/p>\n
3280<\/b> The Ambition-Less Dictator<\/b><\/p>\n
A reporter went to see the mother of the murdered Chancellor Dolfuss, the little dictator of Austria who was killed by the Nazis. She was almost forgotten, an obscure peasant woman of an obscure Austrian village. If he was called the \u201clittle dictator,\u201d she could be called the \u201clittle mother,\u201d for she was only four-and- a-half feet tall. <\/p>\n
She told the reporter that she knew her boy would be murdered, and had often begged him not to become famous. He wasn\u2019t ambitious, she explained. It was a feeling of inferiority of littleness that drove him so high. When he was a boy he wanted to become a priest, but a chimney sweep told him it was no use. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou are not tall enough,\u201d said the chimney sweep, \u201cyou are too short to wear the robes and vestments of a priest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, Dolfuss was too small to be a clergyman\u2014so he became dictator of his country. <\/p>\n
\u2014Lowell Thomas<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Evolutionists ; Individualism ; Luke 12:25: Rev. 13:18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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