Category: Science - Biology
Treatment of old people in uncivilised countries.—Assassination of old people in civilised countries.—Suicide of old people.—Public assistance in old age.—Centenarians.—Mme. Robineau, a lady of 106 years of age.—Principal characters of old age.—Examples of old mammals.—Old bir...
In the course of this book I have from time to time approached subjects closely related with the problem of morality. For instance, in considering the prolongation of human life...
14. PART IVAlthough the duration of the life of man is one of the longest amongst mammals, men find it too short. From the remotest times the shortness of life has been complained of, and...
12. chapter I gave a number of examples, the subject is so important that Ipropose to go further into details. The possibility of this is due to an admirable set of details brought together by Mr. J. H. Gurney.[39] In his list, in which are included mo...
18. PART VIIIThere can be drawn from analysis of the lives of great men information that is very important in the study of the constitution of man. I have chosen Goethe for several reasons....
13. PART IIITheory of the immortality of unicellular organisms—Examples of very old trees—Examples of short-lived plants—Prolongation of the life of some plants—Theory of the natural death...
10. PART ITreatment of old people in uncivilised countries—Assassination of old people in civilised countries—Suicide of old people—Public assistance in old age—Centenarians—Mme. Robineau...
17. PART VIIIn the attempt to formulate a pessimistic theory of human nature, we are naturally led to ask why it is that so many famous men have come to a purely pessimistic conception of h...
15. PART VReply to critics who deny the simian origin of man—Actual existence of rudimentary organs—Reductions in the structure of the organs of sense in man—Atrophy of Jacobson’s organ a...
16. PART VIProblem of the species in the human race—Loss of individuality in the associations of lower animals—Myxomycetes and Siphonophora—Individuality in Ascidians—Progress in the devel...
11. PART IIRelation between longevity and size—Longevity and the period of growth—Longevity and the doubling in weight after birth—Longevity and rate of reproduction—Probable relation betw...
2. PART IIRelation between longevity and size.—Longevity and the period of growth.—Longevity and the doubling in weight after birth.—Longevity and rate of reproduction.—Probable relations...
4. PART IVAncient methods of prolonging human life.—Gerokomy.—The “immortality draught” of the Taoists.—Brown-Séquard’s method.—The spermine of Poehl.—Dr. Weber’s precepts.—Increased dura...
1. PART ITreatment of old people in uncivilised countries.—Assassination of old people in civilised countries.—Suicide of old people.—Public assistance in old age.—Centenarians.—Mme. Rob...
8. PART VIIIGoethe’s optimistic period.—His mode of life in that period.—Influence of love in artistic production.—Inclinations towards the arts must be regarded as secondary sexual charact...
9. PART IXIndividual morality.—History of two brothers brought up in the same circumstances, but whose conduct was quite different.—Late development of the sense of life.—Evolution of sym...
3. PART IIITheory of the immortality of unicellular organisms.—Examples of very old trees.—Examples of short-lived plants.—Prolongation of the life of some plants.—Theory of the natural de...
5. PART VReply to critics who deny the simian origin of man.—Actual existence of rudimentary organs.—Reductions in the structure of the organs of sense in man.—Atrophy of Jacobson’s orga...
6. PART VIProblem of the species in the human race.—Loss of individuality in the associations of lower animals.—Myxomycetes and Siphonophora.—Individuality in Ascidians.—Progress in the d...
7. PART VIIRelation between pessimism and the state of the health.—History of a man of science who was pessimistic when young and who became an optimist in old age.—Optimism of Schopenhaue...