Abstract
ABSTRACTThe exuberance of the younger generation, based on new personal freedoms and a fresh idealism in human relations, ignited a potentially rewarding path for the adult community to follow. However, the youthful revolt could not be sustained by the substitution of emotional activism for thought, and acute self‐interest for former declarations of concern for fellow human beings.Aging is an unprovoked attack on one organ after the other. Yet, our defects may constitute perpetual victories as we declare a new fidelity to whatever powers and passions remain. The creative reader will be fortified in his grasp of the Goethean culture of experience as he communes with the Prometheans who wrote in defense of personal liberty. The aim of this essay is to reveal an unpredictable turn of events in which the brief spark contributed by the younger generation illuminated a vista of a better way of life for older people, a vista of personal freedom which requires only a fresh documentation from an already available humanistic background. Our western tradition of literature and the other liberal arts may be used to define a culture of enhanced experience, without being curbed by the ultra‐cautious counseling and antiquated restraints which society had imposed upon older people.
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