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Title: Back to Methuselah

Author: George Bernard Shaw

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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
Heredity an Old Story
Discovery Anticipated by Divination
Corrected Dates for the Discovery of Evolution
Defying the Lightning: a Frustrated Experiment
In Quest of the First Cause
Paley's Watch
The Irresistible Cry of Order, Order!
The Moment and the Man
The Brink of the Bottomless Pit
Why Darwin Converted the Crowd
How we Rushed Down a Steep Place
Darwinism not Finally Refutable
Three Blind Mice
The Greatest of These is Self-Control
A Sample of Lamarcko-Shavian Invective
The Humanitarians and the Problem of Evil
How One Touch of Darwin makes the Whole World Kin
Why Darwin Pleased the Socialists
Darwin and Karl Mar