The Prolongation of lifePutnam, 1908 - 343 pages |
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Page ii
... facts . The argument which Professor Metchnikoff unfolds in a story more fascinating than the " Arabian Nights " is that human misery and suffering are due to disturbances in our organic equilibrium which strike discords within our ...
... facts . The argument which Professor Metchnikoff unfolds in a story more fascinating than the " Arabian Nights " is that human misery and suffering are due to disturbances in our organic equilibrium which strike discords within our ...
Page vii
... fact , that the instinct of life would be replaced by an instinct of death . 66 Metchnikoff's suggestion , then , was that science should be encouraged and helped in every possible way in its task of removing the diseases and habits ...
... fact , that the instinct of life would be replaced by an instinct of death . 66 Metchnikoff's suggestion , then , was that science should be encouraged and helped in every possible way in its task of removing the diseases and habits ...
Page ix
... facts , some of which have been established by my fellow - workers , others by myself , there still remain many sides of the subject where it is necessary to fall back on hypotheses . I have accepted such imperfections instead of ...
... facts , some of which have been established by my fellow - workers , others by myself , there still remain many sides of the subject where it is necessary to fall back on hypotheses . I have accepted such imperfections instead of ...
Page x
... fact , like my earlier one on the " Nature of Man , " is directed much more to the new generation than to that which has already been subjected to the influence of the factors which produce precocious old age . I think that thus the ...
... fact , like my earlier one on the " Nature of Man , " is directed much more to the new generation than to that which has already been subjected to the influence of the factors which produce precocious old age . I think that thus the ...
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... facts , or other materials ; the names of these will appear in their proper places in the volume . I have not mentioned by name , however , Dr. J. Goldschmidt , whose continual en- couragement and practical sympathy have made my work ...
... facts , or other materials ; the names of these will appear in their proper places in the volume . I have not mentioned by name , however , Dr. J. Goldschmidt , whose continual en- couragement and practical sympathy have made my work ...
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Page 296 - Yes, to this thought I hold with firm persistence ; The last result of wisdom stamps it true : He only earns his freedom and existence, Who daily conquers them anew.
Page 134 - NOW king David was old and stricken in years ; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
Page 320 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven: therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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Page 345 - The author wields a pleasing pen and knows how to make the subject attractive. . . . The work is calculated to spread among its readers an attraction to the science of anthropology. The author's observaticns are exceedingly genuine and his descriptions are vivid.
Page 284 - Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces.
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Page 263 - Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which all thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing: it paints the misery, it passionately utters the complaint; and heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it.
Page 231 - Therefore I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.