Lifespan Quotes
Nott, a Southerner who owned slaves, was not only an apologist for slavery as this quotation illustrates, but also wrote on his theories of race. Nott was one of the writers about race that Darwin singled out as being completely wrong in 1871: The Descent of Man.
This is a remarkably accurate prediction of a process that has rapidly accelerated to a point that would surprise most people of the 18th century except de Condorcet.
There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
A century later, we had in the United States exactly what Biggs told everyone was possible with a Public Health investment. Average lifespan had increased by over a decade. Many Americans work into their 70s and 80s. And with modern drugs pain and suffering has been vastly reduced. In retrospect, .
