دانلود کتاب The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies (Classics in Longevity and Aging)

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Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Original Preface......Page 12
Original Editor's Introduction......Page 14
Introduction to the American Edition of 1910......Page 18
Introduction to the Reprinted Edition, 1977......Page 24
Part I: The Investigation of Old Age......Page 30
I. The Problems of Senility......Page 32
II. Theories of the Causation of Senility......Page 42
III. Mechanism of Senility......Page 48
Part II: Longevity in the Animal Kingdom......Page 58
I. Theories of Longevity......Page 60
II. Longevity in the Animal Kingdom......Page 65
III. The Digestive System and Senility......Page 73
IV. Microbes as the Cause of Senility......Page 82
V. Duration of Human Life......Page 89
Part III: Investigations on Natural Death......Page 96
I. Natural Death Amongst Plants......Page 98
II. Natural Death in the Animal World......Page 108
III. Natural Death Amongst Human Beings......Page 115
Part IV: Should We Try to Prolong Human Life?......Page 124
I. The Benefit to Humanity......Page 126
II. Suggestions for the Prolongation of Life......Page 128
III. Diseases That Shorten Life......Page 134
IV. Intestinal Putrefaction Shortens Life......Page 138
V. Lactic Acid as Inhibiting Intestinal Putrefaction......Page 145
Part V: Psychical Rudiments in Man......Page 160
I. Rudimentary Organs in Man......Page 162
II. Human Traits of Character Inherited From Apes......Page 167
III. Somnambulism and Hysteria as Mental Relics......Page 173
Part VI: Some Points in the History of Social Animals......Page 182
I. The Individual and the Race......Page 184
II. Insect Societies......Page 190
III. Society and the Individual in the Human Race......Page 192
Part VII: Pessimism and Optimism......Page 198
I. Prevalence of Pessimism......Page 200
II. Analysis of Pessimism......Page 204
III. Pessimism in Its Relation to Health and Age......Page 209
Part VIII: Goethe and Faust......Page 218
I. Goethe's Youth......Page 220
II. Goethe and Optimism......Page 226
III. Goethe's Old Age......Page 232
IV. Goethe and "Faust"......Page 235
V. The Old Age of Faust......Page 240
Part IX: Science and Morality......Page 250
I. Utilitarian and Intuitive Morality......Page 252
II. Morality and Human Nature......Page 257
III. Individualism......Page 261
IV. Orthobiosis......Page 267
Endnotes......Page 274
B......Page 284
C......Page 285
E......Page 286
H......Page 287
L......Page 288
M......Page 289
R......Page 290
S......Page 291
W......Page 292
Z......Page 293