Man's supreme inheritance (Registro nro. 117799)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BF |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alexander, F. Matthias |
| Fuller form of name | (Frederick Matthias), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1869-1955 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Man's supreme inheritance |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| Source | rdacarrier |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-10-17 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Man''s supreme inheritance : Conscious guidance and control in relation to…" by F. Matthias Alexander is a treatise on psychophysical education and health written in the early 20th century. It argues that modern civilization fosters maladaptive habits of use and that genuine well‑being depends on replacing subconscious reactions with conscious guidance and control of mind and body. The work critiques quick fixes—physical culture drills, relaxation, deep breathing, hypnotism, and faith‑healing—and proposes systematic re‑education to restore coordination and resilience. It extends these ideas to education, character, and social evolution. The opening of this treatise sets its tone with a boatman’s weather metaphor to reject panaceas and promise careful, experience‑based guidance. The author frames an urgent response to modern physical deterioration and the limits of bacteriology, appealing to all readers while insisting that real progress requires eliminating specialized “cures” through personal understanding and effort. An introductory word by John Dewey praises the central thesis: our crisis stems from uncoordinated living, and the remedy is intelligent, positive, conscious control—not a return to nature or piecemeal fixes. The first chapters trace humanity’s shift from instinctive to civilised living, argue that we cannot go back, and call for conscious control to replace faulty subconscious guidance; they then critique “physical culture,” relaxation, and deep breathing (illustrated by a “John Doe” case and the harms of collapsed thoracic use), listing core problems like defective kinesthetic sense and inhibition. Subsequent sections redefine the subconscious (against “subliminal self” theories), emphasize inhibition, and reject hypnotism and faith‑healing as degrading or unreliable, advocating instead the quickening of the conscious mind; a stammer case shows how inhibition and new guiding orders can re‑educate use. The final portion provided begins to apply these principles broadly—addressing temper, addiction, and even crime—arguing for gradual, reasoned re‑education to change points of view and restore normal sensory guidance, before the excerpt breaks off mid‑argument. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Consciousness |
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| Uncontrolled term | Mental healing |
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| Uncontrolled term | Evolution -- Psychological aspects |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dewey, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1859-1952 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/manssupremeinher0000alex/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/manssupremeinher0000alex/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77075">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77075</a> |
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