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'For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.'
--Roger Bacon, Opus Maius (1267 CE)
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?'
--Voltaire, Candide (1759 CE)
'All things living are in search of a better world.'
--Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World (1984 CE)
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Prologue: The Centennial
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To the Reader
At the moment of writing I have been a historiologos for nearly forty years, having visited and taught at many academias and higher schools throughout the ecumene, including Paris in France, Hispalle in Hispania, Rotterdam in Theedsland, Elsinore in the Triune Monarchy, Antioch in Rum, Hampi in Krishna, Alexandria in Masr, Anahwcopolis in Atlantis Maior, Gumshan in Fusania, Vesperia in Medium Oxidentalia, Chana in Australia, Yugograd in Erdelia, Sebastiaoville in East Portugale, Nuburg in Antipodia, Temasek in Nusantara, Sun On in Zhongua and Hanyang in Choson.
I can trace my family's roots to Dunedin in Albion on my mother's side and to Freiberg in Theedsland on my father's side, although I have Illyrian and Hispanian ancestors that also emmigrated to Occidentalia. My lower ancestors are nearly all polites active in political and logical lives of their time. My uncle's line was instrumental in research of tmetic energy while my father's line were prominent pioneers of gynopolitics and eugenics. I am the first of my name to turn to historiology.
I have chosen to pursue historiology at an early age, having been fascinated by Thucydides and his Historiology of the Peloponnesian War and by Dietrich and the Birth of the Modern Geniocracy. The idea of advancement as the driving force for the development of the ecumene is not new, but I sought to approach it critically. I received my inferior degree for outlining how the birth of human logics was intrinsically linked to the Metaschismal Church and how the myth of Saint Bacon has been constructed over the succeeding centuries. I finally achieved my superior degree on the comparative study of ecological conditions needed for civil progress. I was influenced by both early and restorative trends in riquezian procuralogy.
I've published seven monographies about historiography of logics, procuratics and advancement but I have achieved cosmic fame for my monumental Historiography of the Logical and Mathematical Ecumene, published in 72, which has since been revised and updated three times. I've narrated the teleoptic series from 75 to 77, but I've been proclaimed too stodgy for the asterismic optization.
This has earned me a lot of renown in the geniocratic and riquezic world and a lot of infamy elsewhere. My works have been used and misused by various movements and ideologies such as the charterists, procreationists, autarkists, spartacists, naturalists, solidarists, victorians and others. An attempt (and a rather poor one) was made by an Albionese democrat wielding an improvised rotator during my visit to Paris. Unfortunately for the government in London, the only thing hit that day was a freshly painted wall. To this day I regret I am unable to visit once great Albion and see both the birthplaces of my ancestors and of the people I studied.
This brings me back to the task at hand - the Centennial. As the anniversary approaches, special plans for celebrations have been in motion all over the ecumene. Unfortunately, the most famous plan, the prophesized permanent selenic base has failed but we have technopsyches in their palace. The work on the Great Parade of Corporations proceeds apace. The French will complete the Light of Advancement ahead of schedule, the Freidstadt Cosmic Dome is being prepared for the grand opening, the Statue of the Pioneer in Vesperia is being recoated and so on. Even the oriental world is getting in with the celebrations, most of all Choson with its Grand Asterismic Library and SEJONG.
I've been asked by certain intercorporational noirocrats to outline a series of lectures for the asterismic series, enjoyable to idiots and polites alike. However, the goal is not to recapitulate the traditional corporative historiographics of the ecumene but to outline the key parts of the road to the isonomical and logical culture. The great chronodiagram to freedom and advancement for all in easily digestible format.
While writing this prologue is easy, the task at hand is not. What would the chronodiagram include? Where would it start? At the birth of logos with Plato and Aristotle or their second birth a thousand and half years later? There are so many topics to cover, the Roman Empire, Christianity, Oblivious Age, the Mongol Scythe, the Plague, the Vitalian Risorgimento, the semaphore, the black cloaks, the press, the Latin Terror, chequered cloaks, the First and Second Classical Schism, colonisation of Occidentalia, magnetism, procuratics, the isocratic revolts, Dynamical Wars, Kundehwa, Indian Games, Victorian Wars, elektronics, petraleum, automatons, cosmopetagmics, Gosudarstvo, tmetic weapons, anthropometrics, eugenics, ecology, chemology and so on!
The asterismic series will have only 25 to 35 medium length parts which is nowhere near enough to cover my 300 000 word long Historiography. This is why I am planning, in assistance with my niece, to prepare short written discussion material in preparation for the technopsyches generating the series. Perhaps it is best to start where I started four decades ago, with the nascence of black coats and chequered coats.
--Henryson Petersen Taylor, from my home in New Pireus, 99 EE
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'For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.'
--Roger Bacon, Opus Maius (1267 CE)
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?'
--Voltaire, Candide (1759 CE)
'All things living are in search of a better world.'
--Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World (1984 CE)
______________________________
______________________________
Prologue: The Centennial
______________________________
To the Reader
At the moment of writing I have been a historiologos for nearly forty years, having visited and taught at many academias and higher schools throughout the ecumene, including Paris in France, Hispalle in Hispania, Rotterdam in Theedsland, Elsinore in the Triune Monarchy, Antioch in Rum, Hampi in Krishna, Alexandria in Masr, Anahwcopolis in Atlantis Maior, Gumshan in Fusania, Vesperia in Medium Oxidentalia, Chana in Australia, Yugograd in Erdelia, Sebastiaoville in East Portugale, Nuburg in Antipodia, Temasek in Nusantara, Sun On in Zhongua and Hanyang in Choson.
I can trace my family's roots to Dunedin in Albion on my mother's side and to Freiberg in Theedsland on my father's side, although I have Illyrian and Hispanian ancestors that also emmigrated to Occidentalia. My lower ancestors are nearly all polites active in political and logical lives of their time. My uncle's line was instrumental in research of tmetic energy while my father's line were prominent pioneers of gynopolitics and eugenics. I am the first of my name to turn to historiology.
I have chosen to pursue historiology at an early age, having been fascinated by Thucydides and his Historiology of the Peloponnesian War and by Dietrich and the Birth of the Modern Geniocracy. The idea of advancement as the driving force for the development of the ecumene is not new, but I sought to approach it critically. I received my inferior degree for outlining how the birth of human logics was intrinsically linked to the Metaschismal Church and how the myth of Saint Bacon has been constructed over the succeeding centuries. I finally achieved my superior degree on the comparative study of ecological conditions needed for civil progress. I was influenced by both early and restorative trends in riquezian procuralogy.
I've published seven monographies about historiography of logics, procuratics and advancement but I have achieved cosmic fame for my monumental Historiography of the Logical and Mathematical Ecumene, published in 72, which has since been revised and updated three times. I've narrated the teleoptic series from 75 to 77, but I've been proclaimed too stodgy for the asterismic optization.
This has earned me a lot of renown in the geniocratic and riquezic world and a lot of infamy elsewhere. My works have been used and misused by various movements and ideologies such as the charterists, procreationists, autarkists, spartacists, naturalists, solidarists, victorians and others. An attempt (and a rather poor one) was made by an Albionese democrat wielding an improvised rotator during my visit to Paris. Unfortunately for the government in London, the only thing hit that day was a freshly painted wall. To this day I regret I am unable to visit once great Albion and see both the birthplaces of my ancestors and of the people I studied.
This brings me back to the task at hand - the Centennial. As the anniversary approaches, special plans for celebrations have been in motion all over the ecumene. Unfortunately, the most famous plan, the prophesized permanent selenic base has failed but we have technopsyches in their palace. The work on the Great Parade of Corporations proceeds apace. The French will complete the Light of Advancement ahead of schedule, the Freidstadt Cosmic Dome is being prepared for the grand opening, the Statue of the Pioneer in Vesperia is being recoated and so on. Even the oriental world is getting in with the celebrations, most of all Choson with its Grand Asterismic Library and SEJONG.
I've been asked by certain intercorporational noirocrats to outline a series of lectures for the asterismic series, enjoyable to idiots and polites alike. However, the goal is not to recapitulate the traditional corporative historiographics of the ecumene but to outline the key parts of the road to the isonomical and logical culture. The great chronodiagram to freedom and advancement for all in easily digestible format.
While writing this prologue is easy, the task at hand is not. What would the chronodiagram include? Where would it start? At the birth of logos with Plato and Aristotle or their second birth a thousand and half years later? There are so many topics to cover, the Roman Empire, Christianity, Oblivious Age, the Mongol Scythe, the Plague, the Vitalian Risorgimento, the semaphore, the black cloaks, the press, the Latin Terror, chequered cloaks, the First and Second Classical Schism, colonisation of Occidentalia, magnetism, procuratics, the isocratic revolts, Dynamical Wars, Kundehwa, Indian Games, Victorian Wars, elektronics, petraleum, automatons, cosmopetagmics, Gosudarstvo, tmetic weapons, anthropometrics, eugenics, ecology, chemology and so on!
The asterismic series will have only 25 to 35 medium length parts which is nowhere near enough to cover my 300 000 word long Historiography. This is why I am planning, in assistance with my niece, to prepare short written discussion material in preparation for the technopsyches generating the series. Perhaps it is best to start where I started four decades ago, with the nascence of black coats and chequered coats.
--Henryson Petersen Taylor, from my home in New Pireus, 99 EE
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