ON LONGEVITY AND SHORTNESS OF LIFE
350 BC
ON LONGEVITY AND SHORTNESS OF LIFE
by Aristotle
translated by G. R. T. Ross
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THE reasons for some animals being long-lived and others short-lived, and, in a word, causes of the length and brevity of life call for investigation. The necessary beginning to our inquiry is a statement of the difficulties about these points. For it ...