rapid human
inter-communication. The tremendous increase in the production of
wealth and the growing interdependence of nations has opened up a
vast range of speculation in regard to the betterment of mankind to
the abolition or reduction of poverty, ignorance, disease, and
war.... Man advances from a tool-using to a machine-controlling
animal. The rise of the factory system; the concentration and
localization of industry; increased division of labor and
specialization of industrial processes. The great increase in the
volume of capital and in the extent of investments; the separation
of capital and labor and the growth of impersonal economic
relationship. Problems of capital and labor; unemployment and the
labor of women and children; labor organizations. Increased
productivity and the expansion of commerce. Industrial processes
become dynamic and everchanging--a complete reversal of the old
stability, repetition and isolation."

9 It may be contended by some that animals have been making "progress"
or some may say that animals also "bind-time." This use of words
would again become mere verbalism, a mere talking about words--mere
speculation having nothing to do with _facts_ or with correct
thinking, in which there is no intermixing of dimensions. The
peculiar faculty belonging exclusively to humans which I designate
as "time-binding" I have clearly defined as an _exponential
function_ of _time_ in the following chapter. If people are pleased
to talk about the "progress" of animals, they can hardly fail to see
clearly that it differs both in function and in type or dimension
from what is rightly meant by human progress; human time-binding
capacity lies in an entirely different dimension from that of
animals. So, if any persons wish to talk of animal "progress" or
animal "time-binding," they should invent a suitable word for it to
save them from the blunder of confusing types or mixing dimensions.

This mathematical discrimination between classes, types, dimensions
is of the utmost importance in the natural sciences, because of the
transmutation of species. To adjust the Darwin theory to
dimensionality is a somewhat more difficult problem; it involves the
concept of the "continuum"; but with the modern theory of de