The master of destiny (Registro nro. 119451)
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| control field | 78733 |
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| control field | UtSlPG |
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| control field | 20260610134827.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 30003424 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QH |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tilney, Frederick, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1875-1938 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The master of destiny |
| 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 | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| 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 |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-05-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Sean (@parchmentglow), chenzw, 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. | "The master of destiny" by Frederick Tilney is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. Framed as a “biography of the brain,” it surveys the brain’s evolutionary rise from the simplest life to modern humanity, explaining how neural development, senses, and the neocortex underpin civilization and urging education and reason as the means to guide our collective future.<br/><br/>The opening of the book presents a forceful foreword calling scientists to speak plainly to the public and to center the brain as the “master organ” whose training determines human progress or disaster. It then traces the brain’s origin: from single-celled organisms to colonial forms with division of labor, to sponges with primitive muscles, to nerve nets in hydra and the first centralization in jellyfish; onward to head formation in flatworms, sophisticated yet limited arthropod systems, and the decisive vertebrate line (fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals) culminating in the mammalian neocortex. Alongside a sweeping geologic backdrop, it marshals evidence for evolution from comparative anatomy, blood, embryology, and the senses, introducing the “sense combiner” concept and showing how hearing, sight, touch, smell, and body sense progressively centralize in the forebrain. At the start of the historical arc of humanity, it sketches early humans and their antiquity, profiles key fossils (Java ape-man, Piltdown, Heidelberg, Neanderthal), and outlines Paleolithic cultures and tools, highlighting the Mousterian shift to cave dwelling as a seed of property and social organization. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Evolution |
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| Uncontrolled term | Human beings -- Origin |
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| Uncontrolled term | Apes |
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| Uncontrolled term | Brain |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Riggs, Austen Fox, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1876-1940 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-DTZ-198/page/n7/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-DTZ-198/page/n7/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78733">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78733</a> |
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