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Manhood of Humanity

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His first book, written straight out of the war. It proposes that humans are distinguished not by reason or tool-use but by time-binding: the capacity to pass accumulated knowledge across generations, so each begins where the last left off.

The ethical engine of everything after. If knowledge compounds across time, then corrupting the transmission — with bad abstractions, with confused language — is the deepest available crime.
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sephirahchesed
whyChesed gives outward and forward without expecting return, which is exactly the shape of one generation handing everything it has to the next.
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