“11. All of our ideas have to be revised; the animal ‘space-binding’ standards must be rejected as dangerous and destructive, must be replaced by ‘time-binding’ standards, which will correspond to the natural impulses and natural laws for humans.
“12. The minds of mathematicians and engineers are by education the first to see the far reaching importance of the facts disclosed by these definitions, and just this realization will bring about the readjustment of values in life to a human dimension, wherein pending revolutions and wars could be turned into evolution, destruction into construction, discord into accord of a common aim.
“We are the masters of our own destinies, the responsibility is ours to correct the mistakes of our ancestors and to establish a scientific philosophy, scientifically true laws, scientifically true ethics, and a scientific sociology, which will form one unified science of man and his function in the universe, a science which I propose to call ‘Human Engineering.’ Gantt's methods would be the first practical application toward this end.
“Gantt's concept of rendering service is scientifically true because it is ‘time-binding,’ and therefore true for the human class of life and in human dimension. This is why Gantt's concepts have counted for so much and will survive ‘in time.’ ” Discussion by Alfred Korzybski of Mr. W. N. Polakov's paper “Principles of Industrial Philosophy” presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, December 7-10, 1920.
LITERATURE
Gantt, H. L.:
“Work, Wages, and Profits.” The Engineering Magazine Co., 1913. N. Y.
“Industrial Leadership.” Yale University Press. 1916.
“Organizing for Work.” Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1919. N. Y.
Selection from Contents: The Engineer as the Industrial Leader. Economics and Democracy. Democracy in Production. Democracy in the Shop. Democracy in Management. “The Religion of Democracy.”