se again and again in the future.
"7. The duty of mathematically thinking people is to throw such
light on this problem as will stop the stupid, or willfully
destructive, and show whether they are working for, or against,
mankind.
"8. For the 'time-binding' class of life, it is obvious then that
in this dimension, 'time-binding' is the natural law, and, if
understood and analysed, it is the highest human aim.
"9. Such 'natural laws' as 'survival of the fittest' for animals,
which is the 'survival of the fittest in space,' result in fight,
or the survival of the strongest; whereas such a law to be a
NATURAL LAW FOR HUMANS, must be in the human dimension which
obviously would be the 'Survival of the fittest in TIME,'
resulting in the survival of the best.
"10. All known facts must be brought to the light, to be summed
up, and correlated by mathematicians and engineers with the
strictest attention to dimensionality.
"11. All of our ideas have to be revised; the animal
'space-binding' standards must be rejected as dangerous and
destructive, must be replaced by 'time-binding' standards, which
will correspond to the natural impulses and NATURAL LAWS for
humans.
"12. The minds of mathematicians and engineers are by education
the first to see the far reaching importance of the facts
disclosed by these definitions, and just this realization will
bring about the readjustment of values in life to a human
dimension, wherein pending revolutions and wars could be turned
into evolution, destruction into construction, discord into accord
of a common aim.
"We are the masters of our own destinies, the responsibility is
ours to correct the mistakes of our ancestors and to establish a
scientific philosophy, scientifically true laws, scientifically
true ethics, and a scientific sociology, which will form one
unified science of man and his function in the universe, a science
which I propose to call 'Human Engineering.' Gantt's methods would
be the first practical application toward this end.
"Gantt's concept of rendering service is scientifically true
because it is 'time-binding,' and therefore true for the human
class of life and in human dimension. This is why Gantt's concepts
have counted for so much and will survive 'IN TIME.' " Discussion
by Alfred Korzybski of
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