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In this new volume, The Prolongation of Life, the main thesis is carried further, and a number of criti cisms and objections are met. The latter, so far as they relate to technical details, I need say nothing of here, as Metchnikoff and his staff at the Pasteur Institute are the most skilled existing technical experts on these matters, but I canhot refrain from a word of comment on the bril liant treatment of the objection to the suggested ameliora tion of human life that it considered only the individual ind neglected the just subordination of the individual to society. In the sixth Part of this volume, Metchnikoff dis cusses the relation of the individual to the species, society or colony, from the general point of view of comparative biology, and shows that as organisation progresses, the integrity of the individual becomes increasingly important. Were orthobiosis, the normal cycle of life, attained by human beings, there still would be room for specialisation of individuals and for differentiation of the functions of individuals in society, but instead of the specialisation and differentiation making individuals incomplete throughout their whole lives, they would be distributed over the different periods of the life of each individual.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Elie metchnikoff has done a remarkable amount of scientific investigation, the excellence of Which is equally remarkable. Like Pasteur, he began in one field of re search and, by the natural development of his studies, was led forward into a new field which at first seemed very remote from that which he formerly occupied. 'his earlier work dealt with problems of comparative embry ology; his later, with problems of disease. In accordance with these facts, his career divides itself into two parts, and, as if to emphasise this fact, we find that the earlier part was intimately associated with German influences and largely under their control, while the second part shows strong French influence and covers a time spent almost wholly in Paris.
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