Does "this" here refer to "youth"? Or "a temperamental predominance"?
Context:
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Top answer
It refers to a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
— Clive
It refers to a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
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