02926cam a22003733u 4500 78733 UtSlPG 20260610134827.0 m cr n 260607r20261930utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 30003424 UtSlPG en iso639-1 QH Tilney, Frederick, 1875-1938 The master of destiny Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2026-05-23 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) "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. 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.) Originally published: New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930 Evolution Human beings -- Origin Apes Brain Riggs, Austen Fox, 1876-1940 https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-DTZ-198/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78733 119451 119451