Inventory of all source material in this project, with token counts (cl100k_base) so reading budgets can be planned. Generated 2026-08-17 by work/build_sources_index.py. Counting method: tiktoken (cl100k_base).
Corpus (corpus/*.txt)
Plain-text extractions — the primary reading corpus.
| File | Description | Chars | Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|
a_free_mans_worship.txt |
Russell’s “A Free Man’s Worship” (1903) — named in the 1946 lecture notes | 20,158 | 4,359 |
a_man_divided.txt |
A Man Divided (1950), last novel published in his lifetime | 436,190 | 102,824 |
a_modern_theory_of_ethics.txt |
A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929), his first philosophy book — begun after the 1925 doctorate (the thesis, “Meaning,” is unpublished) | 607,499 | 143,316 |
a_modern_utopia.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 540,029 | 124,476 |
an_essay_on_man.txt |
Pope’s An Essay on Man (1733–34; Morley/Cassell 1891 text) — source of “the proper study of mankind is man” | 66,524 | 16,183 |
back_to_methuselah.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 633,580 | 157,721 |
beyond_the_isms.txt |
Beyond the “Isms” (1942; US copyright to 2038 — published as excerpts only), Searchlight Book No. 16, VLM re-OCR from the owner’s scan | 210,711 | 42,505 |
creative_evolution.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 833,695 | 205,786 |
crossley_speaking_for_the_future.txt |
Robert Crossley’s Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future (1994; in copyright — published as excerpts only), the standard biography, VLM re-transcription from the owner’s page photographs | 1,307,974 | 316,265 |
darkness_and_the_light.txt |
Darkness and the Light (1942), novel | 361,433 | 76,819 |
death_into_life.txt |
Death into Life (1946), spiritual fiction | 294,045 | 68,221 |
future_of_an_illusion.txt |
Freud’s The Future of an Illusion (1927; Strachey trans. 1961, in copyright — published as excerpts only), VLM re-transcription — sheet 12’s opponent | 130,932 | 28,887 |
hereditary_genius.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 751,599 | 181,459 |
history_of_transhumanist_thought.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 76,476 | 16,416 |
inquiries_into_human_faculty.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 621,529 | 142,801 |
interplanetary_man.txt |
Interplanetary Man? (1948), published address — reconstruction ground truth | 70,428 | 15,324 |
interplanetary_man_discussion.txt |
JBIS 1948 discussion after the address (incl. Arthur C. Clarke) | 5,878 | 1,260 |
intimation_ode.txt |
Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (1807) — sheet 24’s “(Wordsworth said so) but I am not sure” | 9,536 | 1,958 |
last_and_first_men.txt |
Last and First Men (1930), novel | 703,959 | 141,193 |
last_men_in_london.txt |
Last Men in London (1932), novel — full text | 628,055 | 142,835 |
latter_day_psalms.txt |
Latter-Day Psalms (1914), first book, verse — authoritative VLM re-transcription from the 1914 pages (Aug 2026) | 40,280 | 10,350 |
latter_day_psalms_old_ocr.txt |
Superseded PDF-text-layer extraction of Latter-Day Psalms (running heads, OCR garbling) — kept for the record only | 39,543 | 10,603 |
lml_london_spirit.txt |
Last Men in London chapter extract (superseded by full text) | 24,170 | 5,661 |
lml_paul_devout.txt |
Last Men in London chapter extract (superseded by full text) | 22,552 | 5,194 |
man_and_superman.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 481,130 | 119,232 |
man_into_superman.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 577,152 | 125,689 |
men_like_gods.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 462,257 | 110,100 |
mill_bentham.txt |
Mill’s “Bentham” (1838; Bennett/EMT edition) — the famous push-pin wording | 102,331 | 21,569 |
moskowitz_man_behind_the_works.txt |
Sam Moskowitz’s biographical essay (1979), quotes The Opening of the Eyes | 80,539 | 17,694 |
national_idealism_and_a_state_church.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 848,342 | 189,541 |
nebula_maker.txt |
Nebula Maker (1933 per Crossley’s dating, pub. 1976; in copyright — published as excerpts only), the abandoned Star Maker first draft, from the EPUB | 149,121 | 30,835 |
odd_john.txt |
Odd John (1935), novel | 454,358 | 106,623 |
philosophy_and_living_vol1.txt |
Philosophy and Living (1939) Vol. I, VLM re-OCR; scan-defect duplication removed, two scan gaps marked | 352,798 | 74,687 |
philosophy_and_living_vol2.txt |
Philosophy and Living (1939) Vol. II — personality, society, metaphysics, mysticism; VLM re-OCR | 431,195 | 90,087 |
possible_worlds.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 516,009 | 114,548 |
process_and_reality.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 1,064,507 | 221,868 |
rare_stories.txt |
Rare essays/stories from the Crossley Reader (1908–1949), non-duplicates only, with editorial headnotes | 338,659 | 70,613 |
rationale_of_reward.txt |
Bentham’s The Rationale of Reward (1825), VLM re-transcription — the push-pin passage’s book | 651,530 | 139,067 |
religion_without_revelation.txt |
Julian Huxley’s Religion Without Revelation (1927), VLM re-transcription — the 1946 notes’ Evolutionary Humanism | 660,649 | 138,437 |
short_stories.txt |
Collected shorter fiction incl. 1916 FAU pieces and Four Encounters | 490,406 | 114,848 |
sirius.txt |
Sirius (1944), novel | 439,411 | 102,862 |
space_time_and_deity.txt |
Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity Vol. I (1920, Gifford Lectures) — the “nisus toward deity” interlocutor; VLM re-OCR | 748,040 | 155,926 |
space_time_and_deity_vol2.txt |
Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity Vol. II (1920, Books III–IV — the deity argument itself); VLM re-OCR | 956,114 | 201,580 |
star_begotten.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 213,412 | 49,999 |
starmaker.txt |
Star Maker (1937), novel | 535,033 | 108,911 |
talking_across_the_world.txt |
Stapledon–Miller love letters 1913–19 (ed. Crossley, 1987) | 1,092,589 | 286,819 |
the_ascent_of_humanity.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 705,875 | 149,984 |
the_ethical_movement_in_great_britain.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 620,566 | 139,184 |
the_flames.txt |
The Flames (1947), novella | 149,859 | 34,331 |
the_hampdenshire_wonder.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 333,080 | 80,177 |
the_idea_of_the_holy.txt |
Otto’s The Idea of the Holy (1917; Harvey trans. 1923), VLM re-transcription — the numinous / mysterium tremendum | 517,664 | 119,215 |
the_opening_of_eyes.txt |
The Opening of the Eyes (1954, ed. Agnes Z. Stapledon; US copyright to 2050 — published as excerpts only), complete 1954 text, VLM re-OCR from the owner’s scan | 197,802 | 44,666 |
the_over_soul.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 38,303 | 8,976 |
the_phenomenon_of_man.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 616,772 | 131,605 |
the_source_of_civilization.txt |
Gerald Heard’s The Source of Civilization (1935; in copyright — published as excerpts only), VLM re-transcription; supplied as “the_ascent_of_humanity.pdf” but identified as the trilogy’s third book | 688,714 | 140,866 |
the_world_the_flesh_and_the_devil.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 89,181 | 17,173 |
thus_spake_zarathustra.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 637,109 | 161,278 |
transhumanism.txt |
Julian Huxley’s “Transhumanism” (1957; in copyright — published as excerpts only) — the coinage essay | 10,397 | 2,003 |
transhumanist_values.txt |
Plain-text extraction | 32,976 | 6,498 |
vale_of_soul_making.txt |
Keats’s soul-making journal-letter section, 21 Apr 1819 (Rollins text) — the Brighton 1949 margin’s “Vale of Soul-Making (Keats)” | 9,359 | 2,251 |
waking_world.txt |
Waking World (1934), the lecture’s published twin | 539,592 | 118,672 |
youth_and_tomorrow.txt |
Youth and Tomorrow (1946), part memoir | 303,353 | 65,283 |
| Total (62 files) | 25,572,959 | 5,776,113 |
Source volumes (books/)
Original volumes the corpus was extracted from. PDF/EPUB sizes are the embedded text layer only (image-only scans count near zero). Excluded (presentation assets): theme.css, theme.js.
| File | Description | Chars | Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|
a_modern_theory_of_ethics.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 604,339 | 141,944 |
beyond_the_isms.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 0 | 0 |
complete_works_of_olaf_stapledon.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 6,028,446 | 1,360,541 |
ettinger_man_into_superman.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 671,841 | 224,391 |
interplanetary_man.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 0 | 0 |
last_and_first_men.html |
Source volume (HTML) | 703,214 | 141,193 |
latter_day_psalms.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 38,798 | 10,264 |
nebula_maker.epub |
Source volume (EPUB) | 148,750 | 33,469 |
odd_john.epub |
Source volume (EPUB) | 454,434 | 107,205 |
olaf_love_letters.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 1,092,729 | 289,831 |
philosophy_and_living_vol_1.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 345,362 | 87,923 |
philosophy_and_living_vol_2.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 393,671 | 99,962 |
rare_stories.epub |
Source volume (EPUB) | 635,321 | 143,207 |
sirius.epub |
Source volume (EPUB) | 507,365 | 159,073 |
starmaker.html |
Source volume (HTML) | 534,316 | 108,912 |
teilhard_phenomenon_of_man.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 617,587 | 160,404 |
the_opening_of_eyes.pdf |
Source volume (PDF text layer) | 0 | 0 |
| Total (17 files) | 12,776,173 | 3,068,319 |
Supplementary (supplementary/)
Small supporting texts and HTML pages.
| File | Description | Chars | Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|
a_free_mans_worship.pdf |
Source volume for corpus/a_free_mans_worship.txt | 20,375 | 4,661 |
intimation_ode.txt |
Source text for corpus/intimation_ode.txt (Wordsworth, clean modern text) | 9,537 | 1,959 |
j_s_mill_bentham.pdf |
Source volume for corpus/mill_bentham.txt (Bennett’s Early Modern Texts edition) | 233,725 | 54,416 |
jbis_discussion_1948.html |
Styled reading page for the 1948 JBIS discussion after “Interplanetary Man?” | 6,531 | 1,426 |
man_behind_the_works.pdf |
Sam Moskowitz’s “The Man Behind the Works” (1979), scanned essay | 80,527 | 17,697 |
ozymandias.txt |
Shelley’s “Ozymandias” — one of the two planned poem readings | 659 | 160 |
pope_essay_on_man.html |
Source volume for corpus/an_essay_on_man.txt (Project Gutenberg #2428, Cassell 1891) | 260,639 | 66,312 |
rationale_of_reward.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/rationale_of_reward.txt (archive.org, 1825 printing) | 665,977 | 186,045 |
religion_without_revelation.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/religion_without_revelation.txt (Harper, 1927) | 0 | 0 |
space_time_and_deity.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/space_time_and_deity.txt (Macmillan 1920, Vol. I only; a library scan with University of Toronto marks) | 895,063 | 294,059 |
space_time_and_deity_vol2.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/space_time_and_deity_vol2.txt (Macmillan 1920, Vol. II; a library scan) | 968,157 | 286,069 |
the_ascent_of_humanity.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/the_source_of_civilization.txt — the file is actually Heard’s The Source of Civilization (Cape, 1935), not the 1929 Ascent | 0 | 0 |
the_future_of_an_llusion.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/future_of_an_illusion.txt (Strachey/Norton 1961; the filename’s missing ‘i’ is the file as supplied) | 134,763 | 32,993 |
the_idea_of_holy.pdf |
Source scan for corpus/the_idea_of_the_holy.txt (Harvey translation, OUP) | 0 | 0 |
the_tyger.txt |
Blake’s “The Tyger” — one of the two planned poem readings | 810 | 200 |
transhumanism.html |
Source file for corpus/transhumanism.txt (Ethics in Progress 6.1 reprint of the 1957 essay) | 10,814 | 2,119 |
vale_of_soul_making.pdf |
Source PDF for corpus/vale_of_soul_making.txt (Rollins text via lewisiana.nl) | 9,552 | 2,347 |
| Total (17 files) | 3,297,129 | 950,463 |
Lecture-note transcriptions (lectures/transcriptions_v2/consensus_v2/)
Current best per-sheet transcriptions (223 sheets), grouped by lecture; counts are the text content after stripping HTML markup.
| Lecture | Description | Chars | Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80143 The Future of Britain | 4 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 2,536 | 602 |
| 80148 The Future of Britain | 8 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 7,615 | 1,854 |
| 80158 The World Beyond Hitler | 10 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 7,007 | 1,761 |
| 80169 Science and Literature | 7 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 6,665 | 1,771 |
| 80177 Science and Fiction | 12 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 6,682 | 1,774 |
| 80190 Humanism and Superhumanism | 34 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 25,325 | 6,386 |
| 80248 Interplanetary Man | 18 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 10,733 | 2,785 |
| 80267 Personality and the Paranormal | 27 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 20,144 | 5,291 |
| 80295 Possible Futures | 12 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 4,075 | 1,073 |
| 80308 Ourselves and the Future | 12 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 7,964 | 2,090 |
| 80321 Living on Other Planets | 18 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 7,426 | 1,987 |
| 80340 Our Responsibility Towards the Future | 4 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 4,152 | 979 |
| 80446 Atomic Power | 10 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 6,133 | 1,527 |
| 80498 Is Humanism Enough | 35 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 28,522 | 7,306 |
| 81530 Alternative Futures | 12 sheets, consensus transcription (HTML, tags stripped) | 11,019 | 2,738 |
| Total (15 lectures) | 155,998 | 39,924 |
Overall total
111 entries — 41,802,259 chars, 9,834,819 tokens.