Man’s Supreme Inheritance
by F. Matthias Alexander
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About this eBook
- Author
- Alexander, F. Matthias (Frederick Matthias), 1869-1955
- Title
- Man's supreme inheritance : Conscious guidance and control in relation to human evolution in civilization
- Original Publication
- New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Evolution -- Psychological aspects
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 77075
- Release Date
- October 17, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MAN’S SUPREME INHERITANCE Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization
- 2.PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTORY WORD
- 5.PART I MAN’S SUPREME INHERITANCE — I From Primitive Conditions to Present Needs — II Primitive Remedies and Their Defects — III Subconsciousness and Inhibition — IV Conscious Control — V Applied Conscious Control — A CONCEPTION OF THE PRINCIPLES INVOLVED — VI Habits of Thought and of Body — THE OPEN MIND — THE OPEN MIND — VII Race Culture and the Training of the Children — VIII Evolutionary Standards and Their Influence on the Crisis of 1914 — COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY AND MILITARISM
- 6.PART II CONSCIOUS GUIDANCE AND CONTROL — EDUCATION — RE-EDUCATION — INTRODUCTION TO PART II — I Synopsis of Claim — II The Argument — III The Processes of Conscious Guidance and Control — IV Conscious Guidance and Control in Practice — V Conscious Guidance and Control — APPREHENSION AND RE-EDUCATION — VI Individual Errors and Delusions — CASE I — CASE II — CASE III — VII Notes and Instances
- 7.PART III THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF A NEW METHOD OF RESPIRATORY RE-EDUCATION — I Introductory — I THE THEORY OF RESPIRATORY RE-EDUCATION — MEDICAL OPINIONS CONCERNING THE EVIL EFFECT OF INTERFERENCE WITH AND INADEQUATE USE OF THE RESPIRATORY PROCESSES — CONVALESCENTS — II Errors to be Avoided and Facts to be Remembered in the Theory and Practice of Respiratory Re-Education — III The Practice of Respiratory Re-Education — HABIT IN RELATION TO PECULIARITIES AND DEFECTS
- 8.CONCLUDING REMARKS
- 9.INDEX
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