Preface

Abstract

We live in a society that remorselessly casts off those who are too weak, mentally or physically, to cling to the dizzy wheel of existence — a society that worships the idols of beauty, youth, and wealth whilst ruthlessly rejecting those who fall outside its narrow standards of acceptability, or exploitability.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus