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# Mechnikov in “Essays on Optimism” on Europeans having a long old age, not a long life
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/akademik-mechnikov-v-etiudakh-optimizma-napisal-chto-u-evropeitsev-ne-byvaet-dolgoi-zhizni-a-tolko-dolgaia-starost/
- Published: 2018-08-13T09:04:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:05:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Observations, Science

Academician Mechnikov wrote in "The Nature of Man" that Europeans do not have long lives, only long old ages. When you are no longer fit for anything, but are somehow still alive