Back to Methuselah

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Author

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

Title

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

Credits

Suzanne Shell and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders. HTML file produced by David Widger EDITORIAL NOTE: The reader is likely to notice the absence of apostrophes from contractions in the essay section of this work. The author disliked apostrophes and often omitted them. Some of his publishers inserted them, others honored his wishes. The policy of Project Gutenberg is to treat apostrophes as they were in the source text. In this case, apostrophes were omitted in the essay section but used in the play.

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Drama

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eBook-No.

13084

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13084

Release Date

August 2, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BACK TO METHUSELAH
2. 2.A Metabiological Pentateuch — By Bernard Shaw — 1921
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
5. 5.THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
6. 6.POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
7. 7.COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
8. 8.IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
9. 9.HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
10. 10.THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
11. 11.FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
12. 12.CREATIVE EVOLUTION
13. 13.VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
14. 14.THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
15. 15.THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
16. 16.HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
17. 17.THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
18. 18.HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
19. 19.DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
20. 20.CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
21. 21.DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
22. 22.IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
23. 23.PALEY'S WATCH
24. 24.THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
25. 25.THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
26. 26.THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
27. 27.WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
28. 28.HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
29. 29.DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
30. 30.THREE BLIND MICE
31. 31.THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELF-CONTROL
32. 32.A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
33. 33.THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
34. 34.HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
35. 35.WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
36. 36.DARWIN AND KARL MARX
37. 37.WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
38. 38.THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
39. 39.THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
40. 40.POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
41. 41.THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
42. 42.CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
43. 43.THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
44. 44.RELIGION AND ROMANCE
45. 45.THE DANGER OF REACTION
46. 46.A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
47. 47.WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
48. 48.A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
49. 49.THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
50. 50.THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
51. 51.EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
52. 52.MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
53. 53.BACK TO METHUSELAH.
54. 54.PART I—In the Beginning
55. 55.ACT I
56. 56.ACT II
57. 57.PART II—The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
58. 58.PART III—The Thing Happens
59. 59.PART IV—Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
60. 60.ACT I
61. 61.ACT II
62. 62.ACT III
63. 63.PART V.—As Far as Thought can Reach

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