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100	1		_aAlexander, F. Matthias _q(Frederick Matthias), _d1869-1955
245	1	0	_aMan's supreme inheritance
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-10-17
508			_aRichard 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			_a"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			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918
653			_aConsciousness
653			_aMental healing
653			_aEvolution -- Psychological aspects
700	1		_aDewey, John, _d1859-1952
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/manssupremeinher0000alex/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77075
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