Back to Methuselah, A Metabiological Pentateuch
By Bernard Shaw
Length12h 42m
About this audiobook
In the preface, Shaw speaks of the pervasive discouragement and poverty in Europe after World War I, and relates these issues to inept government. Simple primitive societies, he says, were easily governable while the civilised societies of the twentieth century are so complex that learning to govern them properly can't be accomplished within the human lifespan: People with experience enough to serve the purpose fall into senility and die. Shaw's solution is enhanced longevity: we must learn to live much longer; a centenarian should be less than middle aged. (Shaw was in his mid-60s when the plays were written). This change, Shaw predicts, will happen through Creative Evolution (evolutionary change that occurs because it is needed or wanted and not as a result of natural selection (Darwinism) as influenced by the Life Force (l'élan vital).
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length12 hrs 42 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
31HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
2THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
32WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
3POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
33DARWIN AND KARL MARX
4COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
34WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
5IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
35THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
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6HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
36THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
7THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
37POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
8FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
38THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
9CREATIVE EVOLUTION
39CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
10VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
40THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
11THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
41RELIGION AND ROMANCE
12THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
42THE DANGER OF REACTION
13HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
43A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
14THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
44WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
15HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
45A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
16DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
46THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
17CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
47THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
18DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
48EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
19IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
49MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
20PALEY'S WATCH
50BACK TO METHUSELAH.
21THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
51PART I—In the Beginning
22THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
52ACT I
23THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
53ACT II
24WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
54PART II—The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
25HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
55PART III—The Thing Happens
26DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
56PART IV—Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
27THREE BLIND MICE
57ACT I
28THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELF-CONTROL
58ACT II
29A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
59ACT III
30THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
60PART V.—As Far as Thought can Reach
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