The nature of man : $b Studies in optimistic philosophyMetchnikoff, Elie
Philosophy
The nature of man : $b Studies in optimistic philosophy
Metchnikoff, Elie
Human beings; Human biology; Life (Biology)
Religion, and diet, 163
and disease, 205
and future life, 150
and science, 3
and sexuality, 163
Tolstoi’s return to, 223
Renal tubule, invasion of macrophags (figure), 241
Renan, on death, 195
on Jewish belief in future life, 142, 143
on Marcus Aurelius, 174
Renaissance, art of, 14
Reproduction, not cause of death in ephemerids, 275
Reproductive organs, 79
Resignation, in Buddhism, 159
Guyau on, 199
Hartmann’s system of, 187
Marcus Aurelius on, 174
Resurrection, primitive belief in, 140
Réville, on Chinese belief in immortality, 145, 146
_Rhizotrogus_ and light, 36
Richet, on failure of science, 222
Rousseau, on age and love of life, 117
on failure of science, 216
on fear of death, 118
Rovighi, on utility of milk diet, 255
Rückert, on death, 195
Rudimentary organs, in man, 59, 60
Sacrifice, at burials, 140, 141
Saint-Foix, on sacrifice of horses, 141
St. Matthew, on celibacy, 12
Savage, on old age in apes, 233
on social instincts of apes, 105
Schiller, on death, 195
Schopenhauer, and cholera, 120
on death, 121, 179, 288
on immortality, 179
pessimism of, 117, 177, 178, 179, 207
Schottelius, on rearing of germ-free chicks, 249
Science, advance of, 286
Bacon on, 204
destroys faith, 226
failure of, 215, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223
and immortality, 287
and old age, 228
and pessimism, 207, 286
Sclerosis of arteries, 248
in old age, 236, 237, 243, 244
due to poisons, 247
Scotch clergy on man, 12
Seidlitz, on natural morality, 8
Selenka, on fœtus of man and ape, 47
Self-preservation, 113, 275
Seneca, on death, 171
on human existence, 171
on immortality, 170
on nature as a guide, 7, 10
Senile decay action of macrophags, 241
characters of, 235, 238, 239
importance of phagocytes in, 241
Sensibility, specific, of white blood corpuscles, 160
Serum, alteration of properties, 51
anti-diphtheritic, 211
properties of, as guide to affinity, 51
Serums, use of, in old age, 245, 246
Sexuality, early appearance of, 94, 95
in the aged, 98
disharmonies of, 100
Sexual cells, immortality of, 268
soul of, 268
Shakespeare, sorrow and knowledge, 227
Shaving, regarded as degrading, 5
Skeleton, of man and apes, 43
Skin, of man, 62
Skoptsy, and emasculation, 9
Social instincts, 105, 109, 113
Societies, of insects, 294
Socrates, and death, 166, 167
Solidarity, of men, 297
Solomon, sorrow and knowledge, 226
Soul of cells, Haeckel on, 269
of protozoa, 268
of sexual cells, 268
Soured milk, benefits of, 255
Spencer, H., on belief in resurrection, 140
on natural morality, 9
on progress, 291
Spermatozoa, immortality of, 267
in old men, 97
Spinoza, on immortality, 175
Sterility, in human life, 295
in social insects, 294
Stoics, _summum bonum_ of, 6
on future life, 169
Strassburger, on microbes of the intestines, 248
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