People, like crops and animals, also increase in quality and variety

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I have come to the above conclusion based on observation of people I know and those around me. The children of today grow taller than their parents, probably because of the good food they eat and the vitamins they take. Their parents must have struggled in life to rear their children well that they chose to have little for themselves as long as their children were not wanting. Generally, the children of today are more intelligent and wiser than their parents. They are quick to learn new things and are more daring. They achieve higher education than their parents did. The children of today, after they graduate from school and find jobs, are generally in a much better economic state than their parents. Some though, live in luxury because of inheritance from their parents. I had this experience of visiting this sweet old widow for 4 years until she passed away at 103. She and her husband (who died way ahead of her) only finished the elementary grades but all her children were professionals, majority of whom were lawyers. She even confided to me that her son who was also a lawyer but became a mayor later was the dullest. Why? Because he graduated from college only as a "cumlaude" while the rest of his siblings were either "summacumlaude" or "magnacumlaude".