their essential nature and the properties involved in it, had not
set another type of knowledge before them.... When I turned my
mind to this subject, I did not propose to myself any novel or
strange aim, but simply to demonstrate by certain and indubitable
reason, those things which agree best with practice. And in order
that I might enquire into the matters of the science with the same
freedom of mind with which we are wont to treat lines and surfaces
in mathematics; I determined not to laugh or to weep over the
actions of men, but simply to understand them; and to contemplate
their affections and passions, such as love, hate, anger, envy,
arrogance, pity and all other disturbances of soul not as vices of
human nature, but as properties pertaining to it in the same way
as heat, cold, storm, thunder pertain to the nature of the
atmosphere. For these, though troublesome, are yet necessary, and
have certain causes through which we may come to understand them,
and thus, by contemplating them in their truth, gain for our minds
much joy as by the knowledge of things that are pleasing to the
senses."

If only this little book will _initiate_ the scientific study of Man, I
shall be happy; for then we may confidently expect a science and art that
will know how to direct the energies of man to the advancement of human
weal.

What else? Many topics have not even been broached. Time-binding
energy--what may it not achieve in course of the aeons to come? What light
may it not yet throw upon such fundamental phenomena as _Space_, _Time_,
_Infinity_, and so on? What, if any, are the limits of Time-binding? In it
are somehow involved all the higher functions of mind. Is Time identical
with Intelligence? Is either of them the other's cause? Is Time _in_ the
Cosmos or is the latter in the former? Is the Cosmos intelligent? Many no
doubt and marvelous are the fields which the scientific study of man will
open for research.

Appendix I. Mathematics And Time-Binding

The purpose of this appendix is to give an expression of some new ideas
which evolve directly out of the fact that humans are time-binders and
which may serve as suggestions for the foundation of _scientific
psychology_. The problem is of exceeding difficulty to give expression to
in any form and therefore much more difficult to express in any exact or
correct form, and so I beg the reader's p