Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | Korzybski, Alfred - Cassius J. Keyser (essay date 1922)

Cassius J. Keyser (essay date 1922)

SOURCE: A review of The Manhood of Humanity, in The Monist, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, October, 1922, pp. 637-40.

[In the following essay, Keyser quotes from various reviews of Korzybski's The Manhood of Humanity and commends Korzybski's analysis of what it is to be human.]

"In the name of all you hold dear, you must read this book; and then you must re-read it, and after that read it again and again, for it is not brewed in the vat of the soft best-sellers to be gulped down and forgotten, but it is hewn out of the granite, for the building of new eras."

It must not be supposed that those powerful words are an irresponsible utterance of an exicted enthusiast. Far from it. They were written by no less a person than Mr. H. L. Haywood, the sober-minded editor of The Builder, and may be found in the August number of that official organ of The National Masonic Research Society.

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