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Manhood Of Humanity The Science and Art of
Human Engineering
By
Alfred Korzybski
New York
E. P. Dutton & Company
681 Fifth Avenue
1921
CONTENTS
Acknowledgement
Preface
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. Childhood of Humanity
Chapter III. Classes of Life
Chapter IV. What Is Man?
Chapter V. Wealth
Chapter VI. Capitalistic Era
Chapter VII. Survival of the Fittest
Chapter VIII. Elements Of Power
Chapter IX. Manhood Of Humanity
Chapter X. Conclusion
Appendix I. Mathematics And Time Binding
Appendix II. Biology And Time Binding
Appendix III. Engineering And Time Binding
Footnotes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The author and the publishers acknowledge with gratitude the following
permissions to make use of copyright material in this work:
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Company, for permission to quote from "Unified
Mathematics," by Louis C. Karpinski, Harry Y. Benedict and John W.
Calhoun.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, for permission to quote
from "Organism as a Whole" and "Physiology of the Brain," by Jacques Loeb.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers, for permission to quote from "From the Life,
Imaginary Portraits of Some Distinguished Americans," by Harvey O'Higgins.
Messrs. D. Appleton & Company, for permission to quote from "Corporation
Finance," by E. S. Mead.
Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Company, for permission to quote from "Forced
Movements," by Jacques Loeb.
Princeton University Press, for permission to quote from "Heredity and
Environment," by Edwin Grant Conklin.
Columbia University Press, for permission to quote from "The Human Worth
of Rigorous Thinking," by C. J. Keyser.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, for permission to quote
from The Journal of Experimental Medicine , Vol. 27.
The New School for Social Research, for permission to quote from "An
Outline of the History of the Western European Mind," by James Harvey
Robinson.
The Engineering Magazine Company, for permission to quote from "Mastering
Power Production," by Walter N. Polakov.
PREFACE
This book is primarily a study of Man and ultimately embraces all the
great qualities and problems of Man. As a study of Man it takes into
consideration all the characteristics which make Man what he is. If some
readers do note the absence of certain expressions familiar to them, it
does not mean that the author does not feel or think as many other
people he does and very much so; but in this book an effort has been made
to approach the problem of Man from a scientific mathematical point of
view, and therefore great pains have been taken not to use words
insufficiently defined, or words with many meanings. The author has done
his utmost to use such words as convey only the meaning intended, and in
the case of some words, such as "spiritual," there has been superadded the
word "so called," not because the author has any belief or disbelief in
such phenomena; there is no need for beliefs because some such phenomena
exist, no matter what we may think of them or by what name we call them;
but because the word "spiritual" is not scientifically defined, and every
individual understands and uses this word in a personal and private way.
To be im personal the author has had to indicate this element by adding
"so called." I repeat once again that this book is not a "materialistic"
or a "spiritualistic" book it is a study of "Man" and therefore does and
should include materialistic as well as spiritual phenomena because only
the complex of these phenomena constitutes the complex of Man.
The problem has not been approached from the point of view of any private
doctrine or creed, but from a mathematical, an engineering, point of view,
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