NATURE OF MAN--STUDIES IN OPTIMISTIC PHILOSOPHY

by Metchnikoff, E.; P.C. Mitchell, trans

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NY:: Putnam,, 1910. Hardcover; gilt-stamped spine; front cover lower tip lightly bumped; ink name & address inside front cover; contents pp. lightly age-toned; otherwise good.. index + 6pp. publisher ads. With b&w frontispiece portrait + occasional b&w in-text illustrations. 1910 prtg. of 1903 first issue. ||| Metchnikoff (1845-1916) bacteriologist; Director of Pasteur Institute 1895-1916; shared 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Paul Ehrlich. ||| Comprises 3 Parts: I--Disharmonies in Nature of Man; II--Attempts to Diminish Ills from Disharmonies of Human Constitution (Religious & Philosophical Systems); III--What Science is Able to Do to Alleviate the Disharmonies. ||| Speaks of Beings' Inferior-, Simian Origin-, & Digestive System-of Man; Reproductive functions & disharmonies; Self Preservation; Science & Disease, (ditto) & Old Age, (ditto) & Death; etc.