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BACK TO METHUSELAH - A METABIOLOGICAL PENATEUCH
BACK TO METHUSELAH - A METABIOLOGICAL PENATEUCH Author:BERNARD SHAW METHUSELAH A META BIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH BERNARD SHAW -- The Infidel HaK Century . The Dawn of Darwinism . . The Advent of the Neo-Darwinian5 . 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 Civiliza... more »tion . Creative Evolution . Voluntary Longevity . The Early Evolutionists . The Advent of the Neo-Lamarckians . Row Acquirements are Inherited . The Miracle of Condensed Recapitulation . Heredity an Old Story . Discovery Anticipated by Divination Corrected Dates for the Discovery of Evolution . Deeing the Lightning a Frustrated Experiment . In Quest of the First Cause . Paleys Watch . The Irresistible Cry of Order, Order . The Moment and the Man . The Brink of the Bottomless Pit. Iihy Darwin Converted the Crowd . How We Rushed Down a Steep Place . Darwinism not Finally Refutable . Traumatic Selection . The Greatest of These is Self-Control . The Humanitarians and the Problem of Evil . Why Darwin Pleased the Socialists . v PAGE vii vii ix X xi xii xiii xiv xvi xvii xviii xix XX xxii xxiv mix XXX xxxi xxxiii XXXV xxxvii xxxix XI i xliv xlvi xlix lii liii lvii lviii lx vi BACK TO METHUSELAH Darwin and Karl Marx . Why Darwin Pleased the Profiteers also . The Poetry and Purity of Materialism . The Viceroys of the King of Kings . Political Opportunism in Exceisis . The Betrayal of Western Civilization . The Homeopathic Reaction against Darwinism . Religion and Romance . The Danger of Reaction A Touchstone for Dogma . What to do with the Legends . A Lesson from Science to the Churches The Religious Art of the Twentieth Century . The Artist-Prophets . Evolution in the Theatre My Own Part in the Matter . In the Beginning B. C. 4004 In ihe Garden of Eden . The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas A. D. I g20 . The Thing Happens A. D. 2170 . Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman A. D. 3000 . As Far as Thought Can Reach A. D. 31,920 . Postscript After Twentyfive Years PAGE lxii Ixiv lxv lxvii lxiv Loc Lwii lxxiv lxxv lxxvii lxxviii lxxix lxxx lxxxii Lvxxiii lxxxv THE INFIDEL HALF CENTURY ONE day early in the eighteen hundred and sixties, I, being then a small boy, was with my nurse, buying something in the shop of a petty newsagent, bookseller, and stationer in Camden Street, Dublin, when there entered an elderly man, weighty and solemn, who advanced to the counter, and said pompously, Have you the works of the ce ebrated Buffoon My own works were at that time unwritten, or it is possible that the shop assistant might have misunderstood him so far as to produce a copy of Man and Superrrian. As it was, she knew quite well what he wanted for this was before the Education Act of 1870 had produced shop assistants who know how to read and know nothing else. The celebrated Buffoon was not a humorist, but the famous naturalist Buffon. Every literate child at that time knew Buffons Natural History as well as Esops Fables. And no living child had heard the name that has since obliterated Buffons in the popular consciousness the name of Darwin. Ten years elapsed. The celebrated Buffoon was forgotten I had doubled my years and my length and I had discarded the religion of my forefathers...« less