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ALFRED KORZYBSKI

MANHOOD of HUMANITY:

The Science and Art of

Human Engineering

1921

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CONTENTS

Preface

Ch.1 Introduction: Method and Processes of Approach to a

New Concept of Life

Ch.2 Childhood of Humanity

Ch.3 Classes of Life

Ch.4 What Is Man ?

Ch.5 Wealth

Ch.6 Capitalistic Era

Ch.7 Survival of the Fittest

Ch.8 Elements of Power

Ch.9 Manhood of Humanity

Ch.10 Conclusion

ORIGINAL APPENDICES

Appendix 1 : Mathematics and Time-Binding

Appendix 2 : Biology and Time-Binding

Appendix 3 : Engineering and Time-Binding

ADDITIONAL APPENDICES

Appendix 4 : Some Non-Aristotelian Data on Efficiency for

Human Adjustment

Appendix 5 : Selections from SCIENCE AND SANITY

(Author's Note)

Appendix 6 : Cassius Jackson KEYSER, Lecture XX from

MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY (1922), Korzybski's

Concept of Man

What I Believe

P R E F A C E

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, which is impersonal and passionless. It is

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