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Back to Methuselah
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Title: Back to Methuselah
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Release Date: August 2, 2004 [eBook #13084]
Language: English
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BACK TO METHUSELAH
A Metabiological Pentateuch
by
BERNARD SHAW
1921
Contents
The Infidel Half Century The Dawn of Darwinism The Advent of the Neo-Darwinians Political Inadequacy of the Human Animal Cowardice of the Irreligious Is there any Hope in Education? Homeopathic Education The Diabolical Efficiency of Technical Education Flimsiness of Civilization Creative Evolution Voluntary Longevity The Early Evolutionists The Advent of the Neo-Lamarckians How Acquirements are Inherited The Miracle of Condensed Recapitulation