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100 1 _aShaw, Bernard,
_d1856-1950
245 1 0 _aBack to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Methuselah
500 _aRelease date is 2004-08-02
505 0 _aPreface -- 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.
508 _aSuzanne Shell and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders. HTML file produced by David Widger 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 text. In this case, apostrophes were omitted in the essay section but used in the play.
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aDrama
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