It would make statesmen hurry up.

At present, they are nearly fifty before you hear of them.

How can we expect the country to be properly governed by men in their dotage?
"Again, take the world of letters.

Why does the literary aspirant have such a struggle?
Simply because the profession is over-stocked with seniors.

I would like to know what Tennyson's age is, and Ruskin's, and Browning's.