The Prolongation of lifePutnam, 1908 - 343 pages |
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Page v
... pessimism . The source of these gloomy views lies in the nature of man itself . Man has inherited a constitution from remote animal ancestors , and every part of his struc- ture , physical , mental and emotional , is a complex legacy of ...
... pessimism . The source of these gloomy views lies in the nature of man itself . Man has inherited a constitution from remote animal ancestors , and every part of his struc- ture , physical , mental and emotional , is a complex legacy of ...
Page vi
... pessimism . Metchnikoff , however , was able to proclaim himself an optimist , and found , in biological science , for the present generation a hope , or , at the least , an end towards which to work , and for future generations a ...
... pessimism . Metchnikoff , however , was able to proclaim himself an optimist , and found , in biological science , for the present generation a hope , or , at the least , an end towards which to work , and for future generations a ...
Page viii
... pessimism would disappear . In this new volume , The Prolongation of Life , the main thesis is carried further , and a number of criti- cisms and objections are met . The latter , so far as they relate to technical details , I need say ...
... pessimism would disappear . In this new volume , The Prolongation of Life , the main thesis is carried further , and a number of criti- cisms and objections are met . The latter , so far as they relate to technical details , I need say ...
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... PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM I PREVALENCE OF PESSIMISM Oriental origin of pessimism . - Pessimistic poets . - Byron.- Leopardi . - Poushkin . - Lermontoff . - Pessimism and suicide 233 II ANALYSIS OF PESSIMISM Attempts to assign reasons for the ...
... PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM I PREVALENCE OF PESSIMISM Oriental origin of pessimism . - Pessimistic poets . - Byron.- Leopardi . - Poushkin . - Lermontoff . - Pessimism and suicide 233 II ANALYSIS OF PESSIMISM Attempts to assign reasons for the ...
Page xix
... pessimism . - The brain - fatigue which finds a remedy in love . The romance with Mar- guerite and its unhappy ending V THE OLD AGE OF FAUST • The second Part of Faust is in the main a description of senile love . - Amorous passion of ...
... pessimism . - The brain - fatigue which finds a remedy in love . The romance with Mar- guerite and its unhappy ending V THE OLD AGE OF FAUST • The second Part of Faust is in the main a description of senile love . - Amorous passion of ...
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According activity amongst animals anthropoid apes atheroma atrophy bacillus bacteria become birds blood body Bulgarian bacillus cæca cæcum cause cells centenarians century condition degeneration developed died diseases duration Eckermann eggs elephant evil existence extremely facts fæcal matter Faust favourable females fermentation function gland Goethe Goethe's harmful human race hygiene individual insects instance instinct intestinal flora intestinal putrefaction investigation kephir known Kowalevsky lactic acid lactic microbes large intestine larvæ less live longevity macrophags males mammals microbes Moebius morality muscles muscular natural death nerve-cells normal old age organisation organs pain Paris Pasteur Pasteur Institute patient period pessimism pessimistic phagocytes phagocytosis plants poisons problem produced prolonged putrefaction quantities reach regarded relations reproduction result rotifers rudimentary senescence senile sense serums sexual sleep small intestine society soured milk species substances syphilis theory tion tissues vertebrates Werther whilst woman young youth
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Page 298 - 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 136 - 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 322 - 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.
Page 286 - 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.
Page 265 - 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 233 - 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.