LIVING WORK OF THE DEAD.

Nature's laws are supreme; we cannot change them; we can deviate from them
for a while, but the end is evil. That is the lesson we must learn from
the history of Humanity's childhood. False conceptions of Man--ignorance of
the laws of human nature--have given us unscientific economies,
unscientific ethics, unscientific law, unscientific politics, unscientific
government. These have made human history the history of social
cataclysms--insurrections, wars, revolutions--sad tokens not so much of
human lust as of human ignorance of the laws of human nature. There is but
one remedy, one hope--a science and art of Human Engineering based upon the
just conception of humanity as the time-binding class of life and
conforming to the laws of nature including the laws of human nature.

Chapter VI. Capitalistic Era

The immortal work done by Descartes, Newton and Leibnitz was to discover
powerful methods for mathematics--the only fit language for expressing the
laws of nature.

Human Engineering will be the science by which the great social problems
will be solved. For the first time since the first day of man, humanity
will really understand its own nature and status; and will learn to direct
scientifically the living and the non-living forces for construction,
avoiding unnecessary destruction and waste.

It may seem strange but it is true that the time-binding exponential
powers, called humans, do not die--their bodies die but their achievements
live forever--a permanent source of power. All of our precious
possessions--science, acquired by experience, accumulated wealth in all
fields of life--are kinetic and potential use-values created and left by
by-gone generations; they are humanity's treasures produced mainly in the
past, and conserved for our use, by that peculiar function or power of man
for the binding of time. That the natural trend of life and the progress
of the development of this treasury is so often checked, turned from its
natural course, or set back, is due to ignorance of human nature, to
metaphysical speculation and sophistry. Those who, with or without
intention, keep the rate of humanity's mental advancement down to that of
an arithmetic progression are the real enemies of society; for they keep
the life-regulating "sciences" and institutions far behind the gallop of
life itself. The consequence is periodic social violence--wars and
revolutions.

Let us carry the analys