Time will explain (while the longevity industry is making money)
_what is now_
“Elizabeth! Very well. Time will explain.”
That is a quote from Jane Austen’s last novel Persuasion, and the phrase was a reference to the future by Anne Elliot— a young English woman of 27 years— who felt that she could determine nothing at present.
Austen wrote Persuasion in 1816 while she was very ill and ignoring the warning …