TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Bernard
TI  - Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Drama
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Methuselah; Release date is 2004-08-02; Preface -- In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) -- The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day -- The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170 -- Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000 -- As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920; Suzanne Shell and Project Gutenberg Distributed
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EDITORIAL NOTE: The reader is likely to notice the absence of
apostrophes from contractions in the essay section of this work. The
author disliked apostrophes and often omitted them. Some of his
publishers inserted them, others honored his wishes. The policy of
Project Gutenberg is to treat apostrophes as they were in the source
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N2  - "Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch" by Bernard Shaw is a cycle of five plays written between 1918 and 1920. Shaw proposes a radical solution to humanity's problems: people must evolve to live for centuries instead of decades. Only through extended lifespans, he argues, can humans gain the wisdom needed to govern complex civilizations. The plays span from the Garden of Eden to the year 31,920, exploring how humanity might transform through Creative Evolution and the Life Force to achieve this extraordinary longevity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13084
ER  -