Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-20-2018

First page number:

1

Last page number:

6

Abstract

Certainly man will not become immortal, but will not the interval between the first breath that he draws and the time when in the natural course of events, without disease or accident, he expires, increase indefinitely?

Marquis de Condorcet Sketch for a Historical Picture Of the Human Mind (1795)

Keywords

Genealogy; Lifespan

Disciplines

Economics | Leisure Studies

File Format

pdf

File Size

426 Kb

Language

English

Comments

*Thanks are extended to Professors Djeto Assane and Jeffrey Waddoups of the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for their comments on an earlier draft of this note. Any remaining errors in the piece are, of course, the responsibility of the author.


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