CONTENTS

	Preface to the American Edition
	Preface
	Prologue The Descent from Adam
I	In the Beginning
II	The Playing Fields of Eden
III	The Battle of the Sexes
IV	On to Methuselah
V	No Thought for the Morrow
VI	To the Ends of the Earth
VII	The Leper’s Bell
VIII	Zwingli’s Sausages
IX	The Colour of the Crystal
	Envoi Unto Others
	Index