Author: METCHNIKOFF, E.,
Title: Essais optimistes. 2me éd., rev. et augm.
Description: Paris, A. Maloine, 1914. W. 27 ills. Bound in modern full brown cloth, with spine label. (XVI, 446, II pp.). Comp. Ellenberger (for 3rd ed.) 514/5:'Metchnikoff maintained that there was such as an instinct to die. He added further observations, surmising that the wish to die must be a particularly pleasant feeling, but that few people experience it, either because they die early, or because of the diseases of old age... [some] however, viewed the death instinct simply as a wish to die, whereas the idea of destructive and self-destructive instincts was much more widespread throughout the 19th century.':

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