Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
by Bernard Shaw
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Contents
- 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 Marx
- Why Darwin Pleased the Profiteers Also
- The Poetry and Purity of Materialism
- The Viceroys of the King of Kings
- Political Opportunism in Excelsis
- The Betrayal of Western Civilization
- Circumstantial Selection in Finance
- The Homeopathic Reaction Against Darwinism
- Religion and Romance
- The Danger of Reaction
- A Touchstone for Dogma
- What to Do with the Legends
- A Lesson from Science to the Churches
- The Religious Art of the Twentieth Century
- The Artist-Prophets
- Evolution in the Theatre
- My Own Part in the Matter
- Act I
- Act II
- Part II—The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
- Part III—The Thing Happens
- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- Part V.—As Far as Thought can Reach