A Treatise on Parents and Children (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421807355)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low organisms: indeed it is by no means ascertained that even the amoeba is immortal. Human beings visibly wear out, though they last longer than their friends the dogs. Turtles, parrots, and elephants are believed to be capable of outliving the memory of the oldest human inhabitant. But the fact that new ones are born conclusively proves that they are not immortal. Do away with death and you do away with the need for birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones

Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN-10: 1421807351
ISBN-13: 9781421807355
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2005
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d