The doctor's "Well, how's Granny Simpson this morning? Have you been making your last will and test…" would falter when he saw her eyes, the intelligence.
He was believed to be possessed of every form of power, endued with wisdom, and in his dominion over the human race partial to justice, and with no limit to his goodness and love.
Too often the cost of being young is going from on extreme to the opposite, but the wisdom of our for-fathers tells us that: things will turn into the opposite when they reach the extreme.
We could not happily have remained ignorant forever... the significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.