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

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time immemorial, such teaching of ethics, for the most
part unconscious, the whole world has had. And we have
seen that when such teaching becomes conscious, deliberate, and organized, a whole people can be so imbued
with both the space-binding animal ethics of might and
the mythical ethics of Gott mit uns that their State will
leap upon its neighbors like an infuriated beast. Why
should we not learn the lesson which the great war has
so painfully taught regarding the truly gigantic power of
education? If the accumulated civilization of many
centuries can be imperiled by ethical teaching based upon
a false philosophy of human nature, who can set a limit
to the good that may be expected from the conscious,
deliberate, organized, unremitting joint effort of home
and school and press to teach an ethics based upon the
true conception of man as the agent and organ of the
time-binding, civilizing energy of the world? I cannot
here pursue the matter further; but in closing I should like
to ask a few general questions-pretty obvious questions
-indicating roughly the course which, I believe, further
enquiry should take.
What are the bearings of the new concept of man
upon the social so-called sciences of economics, politics,
and government?
Can the new concept transform those ages-old pseudosciences into genuine sciences qualified to guide and guard
human welfare because based upon scientific understanding of human nature?
In view of the radical difference between the distinctive nature of animals and the distinctive nature of man,
what are likely to be the principal differences between
Government of Space-binders, by Space-binders, for
Space-binders