What kind of person was Scrooge in the middle of the play

All of the following quotes are examples of foreshadowing from the swimming contest except

How can you paraphrase this, this is about golden age fallacies.these are all rational people who know that older is not necessarily better, but many are taken in by this fallacy and seem no longer able to reason with any degree of reliability

When aquinas realized that he could not find all the answers, he turned to