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PART I THE INVESTIGATION OF OLD AGE

I THE PROBLEMS OF SENILITY

II THEORIES OF CAUSATION OF SENILITY

III MECHANISM OF SENILITY

PART II LONGEVITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

I THEORIES OF LONGEVITY

II. LONGEVITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

III THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND SENILITY

IV MICROBES AS THE CAUSE OF SENILITY

V DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE

PART III INVESTIGATIONS ON NATURAL DEATH

I NATURAL DEATH AMONG PLANTS

II NATURAL DEATH IN THE ANIMAL WORLD

III NATURAL DEATH AMONGST HUMAN BEINGS

PART IV SHOULD WE TRY TO PROLONG HUMAN LIFE?

I THE BENEFIT TO HUMANITY

II SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE

III DISEASES THAT SHORTEN LIFE

IV INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION SHORTENS LIFE

V LACTIC ACID AS INHIBITING INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION

PART V PSYCHICAL RUDIMENTS IN MAN

I RUDIMENTARY ORGANS IN MAN

II HUMAN TRAITS OF CHARACTER INHERITED FROM APES

III SOMNAMBULISM AND HYSTERIA AS MENTAL RELICS

PART VI SOME POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL ANIMALS

I THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE

II INSECT SOCIETIES

III SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE HUMAN RACE

PART VII PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM

I PREVALENCE OF PESSIMISM

II ANALYSIS OF PESSIMISM

III PESSIMISM IN ITS RELATION TO HEALTH AND AGE

PART VIII GOETHE AND FAUST

I GOETHE’S YOUTH

II GOETHE AND OPTIMISM

III GOETHE’S OLD AGE

IV GOETHE AND “FAUST”

V THE OLD AGE OF FAUST

PART IX SCIENCE AND MORALITY

I UTILITARIAN AND INTUITIVE MORALITY

II MORALITY AND HUMAN NATURE

III INDIVIDUALISM

IV ORTHOBIOSIS

INDEX