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Man Mangle Manifest Mankind
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ MAN  id+ | HUMAN |
^u     male of the HUMAN SPECIES
~ MAN~ prefix for MAN or HUMAN or
       MANUAL or HAND
     lit+ in The Prince by MACHIAVELLI [#]
          humans are presented as
     " ... THEY ARE UNGRATEFUL, FICKLE,
     LIARS AND DECIEVERS,
     THEY SHUN DANGER AND
     ARE GREEDY FOR PROFIT,
     AND WHEN YOU ARE IN DANGER
     THEY TURN AGAINST YOU ... "
            continued in
~ MANGLE    id+ | MUTILATE |
            continued see> MAIM
~ MANIFEST  id+ | PLAIN as if HAND PALM OPEN |
~ MANKIND   id+ | HUMANS are MANUAL ANIMALS |
            id+ | MAN also has a unique see> MIND |
  ukr  CHOLOVIK = MAN
       CHOLO      FOREHEAD
      OCHOLONYTY  TO LEAD as TO BE THE HEAD
  id+ | MAN MEN MANKIND have a MIND
        thus FREE WILL thus are INDIVIDUALS |
  lit+ " MAN IS A POLITICAL ANIMAL "  sug> POLITE
  lit+ " WONDERS ARE MANY
         AND NONE MORE WONDERFUL
         THAN MAN ... "
  Chorus in the play "Antigone"
  note  sp MANO = HAND
  biol> med> AMONG THE MOST       sug> MOST
             AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS   sug> ANIMATED
  lit+  " ...
          MAN IS AN ANIMAL WHICH  sug> GREED
        DEVOURS HIS OWN KIND ...  sug> IMMOLATES
  RICH PREY ON THE POOR ... "     sug> CANNIBAL
  from a 1787 letter by
  T JEFFERSON [#] to E Carrington
  lit+ " LUPUS EST HOMO HOMINI
         NON HOMO QUOM QUALIS
         SIT NON NOVIT" or
  "MAN IS NO MAN BUT
   A WOLF TO A STRANGER"
  attr to Titus Maccius PLAUTUS [#]
  255-184 BC who was a
  STAGE CARPENTER and BECAME KNOWN FOR
  HIS VERSIONS OF GREEK COMEDIES
  lit+ "MANKIND {has a} PERPETUAL AND
        RELENTLESS DESIRE FOR
        POWER AFTER POWER...."
  in Leviathan by Thomas HOBBES [#]
  lit+ maxim> " MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS "
                from ARISTOTLE [#] Politics Book I
  lit+ " AN AROUSED HUMAN MIND
         OPENS THE GATE
         TO LOVE and MADNESS " see> MANIA
         anonymous
  note   MAN or     HUMAN      sug> LUNATIC
  sp   HUMANO       HUMAN      sug> HUMOR
         MANO       HAND       sug> LABORER
  skt    MANUS      PERSON     sug> PERSONALITY
         MANTRA     PRAYER     sug> INCANTATION
         MANAS      MIND       sug> SENSE
  gr     MANTIS     SEER       sug> MAGIC
         MATH       LEARNING   sug> SCIENCE
         MNESIC     MEMORY     sug> AMNESIA
         REMINISCE  REMEMBER   sug> MOMENT
         MENOS      TO THINK   sug> CONSCIOUS
  lat    MENS       MENTAL     sug> SENTIMENTAL
  sp     MENTE      MIND       sug> MENTOR
         MANUAL     HAND       sug> MENIAL
  ukr  OSOBA        UNIQUE     sug> LONE
       OSOBYSTYJ    SPECIAL    sug> SPECIMEN
  sp   UNICO        UNIQUE     sug> SPECIFIC
       UNO          ONE        sug> HOMOGENEOUS
  lat    HOMO       HUMAN      sug> HOME
  sp     HOMBRE     MAN        sug> HOMAGE
         HOMBRO     SHOULDER   sug> HUMANE
  med>   HUMERUS    ARM BONE   sug> HUMERAL
  gr      OMOS      SHOULDER   sug> BURDEN
  note   MAN as     HANDYMAN   sug> MANUAL
  ukr    RUKOVODA   LEADER as  sug> MANIPULATOR
         RUKA       HAND and   sug> MANUFACTURE
             VEDE   TO LEAD    sug> VIABLE
  sp         VE     GO  or     sug> VIGOR
                    TO SEE     sug> VISION
             VETE   GO AWAY    sug> VETO
  ply> | MAN may denote
         " A WISE HAND "       sug> MANDATE
         as in GUIDING HAND |  sug> LEADER
  lit+ " EACH ANIMAL HAS
         SOME STRONGER ANIMAL  see> BEAST
  THAT PREYS UPON IT ...       sug> VICTIM
  ONLY MAN HAS
  NO NATURAL ENEMY ...
  JUST THEN ...
  A RUNAWAY SLAVE ...
  WAS BEING PURSUED "
  from "Man and His Natural Enemy "
  in "99 Fables" by
  William MARCH [#]
  University of Alabama Press 1960
  note  William Edward MARCH [#]
        LIVED HIS BOYHOOD
  IN MOBILE ALABAMA and
  BECAME AN AUTHOR OF CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS
  THE FABLES WERE FOUND AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1954
  THEY ARE A DELIGHLT AND INSPIRING TO READ
  AMONG THE MANY TALES
  THOSE FEATURING ANIMALS AND SLAVERY
  ARE QUITE UNFORGETTABLE
  cont> for more etymology see> MANUAL
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