Studies in Optimistic Philosophy
By Élie Metchnikoff
Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, Paris
Translated with an Introduction by
P. Chambers Mitchell
Secretary of the Zoölogical Society
Octavo. Illustrated. Popular Edition. $1.50 net. By mail, $1.65
It is not often that a scientific book may be read with ease, profit, and pleasure by the general reader, so that M. Metchnikoff's book comes in the nature of an agreeable surprise. It is marked by a refreshing naïveté and a large simplicity which are characteristically Russian. The scientific importance of this work is so great that it is spoken of in England as the most valuable production since Darwin's Origin of Species.
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"An extremely interesting and typical book.... With a distinguished frankness, M. Metchnikoff defines his attitude to our universal prepossessions. It is his theory that the infirmities of age are to be overcome. If there be ground for this conception, humanity is to be profoundly changed and what we call life now, will be the childhood and youth of that longer and larger life."—H. G. Wells, in London Speaker.