When ancestral generations passed through these great gates of history, they saw in the Gray Champion a type of elder very different from the bustling “senior citizens” of America’s recent past—and from the old “Uncle Sam” Revolutionary War survivors of the 1830s, when Hawthorne wrote his tale.  Who were these old priest warriors?  They were elder expressions of the Prophet archetype.  And their arrival into old age heralded a new constellation of generations.

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...from The Fourth Turning (Chapter 5)