al of the
fittest" for animals--for _space_-binders--is survival _in space_, which
means fighting and other brutal forms of struggle; on the other hand,
"survival of the fittest" for human beings _as such_--that is, for
_time-binders_--is survival _in time_, which means intellectual or
spiritual competition, struggle for excellence, for making the _best_
survive. The-fittest-in-time--those who make the best survive--are those who
do the most in producing values for all mankind including _posterity_.
This is the scientific base for natural ethics, and ethics from which
there can be no side-stepping, or escape.

Therefore time-binders can not use "_animal_" logic without degrading
themselves from their proper status as human beings--their status as
established by nature. "Animal" logic leads to "animal" ethics and
"animal" economics; it leads inevitably to a brutalized industrial system
in which cunning contrives to rob the living of the fruit of the dead.

_Human_ logic points to human ethics and human economics; it will lead to
a humanized industrial system in which competition will be competition in
science, in art, in justice: a competition and struggle for the attainment
of excellence in human life. The time-binding capacity, which manifests
itself in drawing from the PAST, through the PRESENT for the FUTURE gives
human beings the means of attaining a precious kind of immortality; it
enables them to fulfill the law of their own class of life and to survive
everlastingly in the fruits of their toil, a perpetual blessing to endless
generations of the children of men. This is the truth we instinctively
recognize when we call a great man "immortal." We mean that he has done
deeds that _survive in time_ for the perpetual weal of mankind.

Human logic--mathematical logic, the logic _natural_ for man--will thus show
us that "good" and "just" and "right" are to have their significance
defined and understood entirely in terms of human _nature_. Human
nature--not animal nature--is to be the basis and guide of Human
Engineering. Thus based and guided, Human Engineering will eliminate
"wild-cat schemers," gamblers and "politicians." It will put an end to
industrial violence, strikes, insurrections, war and revolutions.

The present system of social life is largely built upon misconceptions or
misrepresentations. For all work we need the human brain, the human
time-binding power, yet we continue to call it "hand-labor" and trea