The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies

by Elie Metchnikoff

[196] Quoted by Bode in Goethe’s Lebenskunst, Berlin, 1905, p. 59.

[197] Ueber die Wirkungen d. Castration, Halle, 1903, p. 82.

[198] Comptes rendus de la Société de Biologie, 1889, p. 420.

[199] The word Samen of the original is the expression of the alchemists for the “principle of life.”

[200] Erich Schmidt, Goethe’s Faust in ursprünglicher Gestalt, 6th edit., Weimar, 1905, p. 1.

[201] Faust, Bayard Taylor’s translation. London: Warne & Co., pp. 20-21.

[202] Op. cit., p. 32.

[203] Op. cit., pp. 33, 34.

[204] Details of this will be found in Kuno Fischer’s Goethe’s Faust, pp. 328-330.

[205] Op. cit., pg. 36.