Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, by Cassius J. Keyser.

448 MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY
them. The ethics of humanity's manhood will thus be
natural ethics, an ethics compatible with the best-ascertained facts of sense and of thought-it will be timebinding ethics-and it will grow in solidarity, clarity, and
sway in proportion as science discovers the laws of timebinding,-the laws, that is, of civilization-growth,-and
teaches them to the world.
And so I am brought to say a word respecting education. In humanity's manhood, education,-in home, in
school, in church,-will have for its supreme obligation,
and will keep the obligation, to teach the young the distinctive nature of man and what they, as members and
representatives of the race of man, essentially are, so
that everywhere throughout the world men and women
will habitually understand, because bred to understand,
what time-binding is, that their proper dignity as humans
is the dignity of time-binding life, and that for humans
to practice space-binding ethics is a monstrous thing, involving the loss of their human birthright by descent to
the level of beasts.1 It is often said that ethics is a thing
which it is impossible to teach. Just the opposite is true
-it is impossible not to teach ethics, for the teaching of
it is subtly carried on in all our teaching, whether consciously or not, being essentially involved in the teacher's
"philosophy of human nature." Every home or school
in which that philosophy is zoological is, consciously or
unconsciously, a nursery of animalistic ethics; every home
or school in which there prevails a mythological philosophy of human nature is, consciously or unconsciously,
a nursery of a lawless ethics of myth and magic. From
1In a recent bulletin of the Cora L. Williams Institute for Creative
Education, Miss Williams has said, with fine insight, that "time-binding
should be made the basis of all instruction and The Manhood of Humanity a textbook in every college throughout the world."