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MOST people desire to live long, and hence Prof. Metchnikoff's book is sure to have many readers. He not only discusses the means by which life may be prolonged, but he also examines the question whether it is desirable to prolong it. About this he has no doubt; he is a confirmed optimist, and points triumphantly to celebrated men who have begun life as pessimists and have ended it as optimists. The chief of these is Goethe. Several chapters are devoted to the consideration of Faust, the sorrows of Werther, and Goethe's life. But this part of the book and that which treats of morality will probably appeal to fewer readers than the earlier part, for the subjects are so vast and so difficult that it is not easy to deal with them in the short space given to them by the author.
The Prolongation of Life.
Elie Metchnikoff. The English translation edited by P. Chalmers Mitchell. Pp. xx + 343. (London: W. Heinemann, 1907.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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The Prolongation of Life . Nature 77, 289–290 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077289b0
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