Elie Metchnikoff

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PART I THE INVESTIGATION OF OLD AGE I THE PROBLEMS OF SENILITY

PART II LONGEVITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM I THEORIES OF LONGEVITY

PART III INVESTIGATIONS ON NATURAL DEATH I NATURAL DEATH AMONG PLANTS

PART IV SHOULD WE TRY TO PROLONG HUMAN LIFE? I THE BENEFIT TO HUMANITY

PART V PSYCHICAL RUDIMENTS IN MAN I RUDIMENTARY ORGANS IN MAN

PART VI SOME POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL ANIMALS I THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE

PART VII PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM I PREVALENCE OF PESSIMISM

PART VIII GOETHE AND FAUST I GOETHE'S YOUTH

PART IX SCIENCE AND MORALITY I UTILITARIAN AND INTUITIVE MORALITY

FOOTNOTES:

INDEX

Transcriber’s Note:

The position of the footnote anchor 171 at page 229 is a guess of the transcriber as the anchor was missing in the original book.

The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE

OPTIMISTIC STUDIES

BY

ÉLIE METCHNIKOFF

SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE, PARIS

THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

EDITED BY

P. CHALMERS MITCHELL
M.A., D.SC. OXON., HON. LL.D., F.R.S.
Secretary of the Zoological Society of London; Corresponding Member
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK & LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1908