02926cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000340012624500260016026400510018630000470023733600260028433700260031033800360033650000310037250801910040352016660059453400720226065300140233265300270234665300090237365300100238270000340239285600640242685600430249099900190253378733UtSlPG20260610134827.0mcr n260607r20261930utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a30003424  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQH1 aTilney, Frederick,d1875-193814aThe master of destiny 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-05-23  aSean (@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)  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930  aEvolution  aHuman beings -- Origin  aApes  aBrain1 aRiggs, Austen Fox,d1876-19404 uhttps://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-DTZ-198/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78733  c119451d119451