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Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw

Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw

著者： Mentor New York
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Back to Methuselah is George Bernard Shaw’s ambitious cycle of five philosophical plays, subtitled A Metabiological Pentateuch. Its story stretches across thousands of years, beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, passing through Shaw’s own era and several imagined futures, and ending in the year 31,920.At the center of the work is a provocative question: can humanity become wise enough to govern an increasingly complex civilization within an ordinary lifespan? Shaw imagines that people might gradually develop lives lasting several centuries, allowing knowledge, maturity, and responsibility to grow beyond the limitations of short-lived generations. Each play examines a different stage of this transformation, combining biblical figures, political satire, social criticism, speculative science, and far-future philosophy.The work is not a conventional drama driven by continuous action. It is a vast “play of ideas” in which characters debate evolution, education, government, mortality, creativity, and humanity’s ultimate destiny. Shaw’s biological theories are speculative and scientifically outdated, but his questions about political short-sightedness and human development remain thought-provoking. This audiobook will appeal to listeners interested in classic drama, philosophical science fiction, satire, and bold visions of humanity’s distant future.Copyright Mentor New York アート
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    Back to Methuselah - Section 17
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