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PART ONE

THE BOOK OF THE MIND

CONTENTS
 
PART ONE: THE BOOK OF THE MIND
 
PAGE
Chapter I. The Nature of Life3
    Attempts to show what we know about life; to set the
bounds of real truth as distinguished from phrases and
self-deception.
Chapter II. The Nature of Faith8
    Attempts to show what we can prove by our reason, and
what we know intuitively; what is implied in the process
of thinking, and without which no thought could be.
Chapter III. The Use of Reason12
    Attempts to show that in the field to which reason applies
we are compelled to use it, and are justified in trusting it.
Chapter IV. The Origin of Morality17
    Compares the ways of Nature with human morality, and
tries to show how the latter came to be.
Chapter V. Nature and Man21
    Attempts to show how man has taken control of Nature,
and is carrying on her processes and improving upon them.
Chapter VI. Man the Rebel27
    Shows the transition stage between instinct and reason,
in which man finds himself, and how he can advance to
a securer condition.
Chapter VII. Making Our Morals31
    Attempts to show that human morality must change to fit
human facts, and there can be no judge of it save human
reason.
Chapter VIII. The Virtue of Moderation37
    Attempts to show that wise conduct is an adjustment of
means to ends, and depends upon the understanding of a
particular set of circumstances.
Chapter IX. The Choosing of Life42
    Discusses the standards by which we may judge what is
best in life, and decide what we wish to make of it.
Chapter X. Myself and My Neighbor 50
    Compares the new morality with the old, and discusses the
relative importance of our various duties.
Chapter XI. The Mind and the Body 53
    Discusses the interaction between physical and mental
things, and the possibility of freedom in a world of fixed
causes.
Chapter XII. The Mind of the Body 61
    Discusses the subconscious mind, what it is, what it does
to the body, and how it can be controlled and made use
of by the intelligence.
Chapter XIII. Exploring the Subconscious 67
    Discusses automatic writing, the analysis of dreams, and
other methods by which a new universe of life has been
brought to human knowledge.
Chapter XIV. The Problem of Immortality 74
    Discusses the survival of personality from the moral point
of view: that is, have we any claim upon life, entitling
us to live forever?
Chapter XV. The Evidence for Survival 81
    Discusses the data of psychic research, and the proofs of
spiritism thus put before us.
Chapter XVI. The Powers of the Mind 91
    Sets forth the fact that knowledge is freedom and ignorance
is slavery, and what science means to the people.
Chapter XVII. The Conduct of the Mind 98
    Concludes the Book of the Mind with a study of how to
preserve and develop its powers for the protection of our
lives and the lives of all men.
 
PART TWO: THE BOOK OF THE BODY
 
Chapter XVIII. The Unity of the Body 105
    Discusses the body as a whole, and shows that health is
not a matter of many different organs and functions, but
is one problem of one organism.
Chapter XIX. Experiments in Diet 115
    Narrates the author's adventures in search of health, and
his conclusions as to what to eat.
Chapter XX. Errors in Diet 123
    Discusses the different kinds of foods, and the part they
play in the making of health and disease.
Chapter XXI. Diet Standards 134
    Discusses various foods and their food values, the quantities
we need, and their money cost.
Chapter XXII Foods and Poisons 145
    Concludes the subject of diet, and discusses the effect upon
the system of stimulants and narcotics.
Chapter XXIII. More About Health 156
    Discusses the subjects of breathing and ventilation, clothing,
bathing and sleep.
Chapter XXIV. Work and Play 163
    Deals with the question of exercise, both for the idle and
the overworked.
Chapter XXV. The Fasting Cure 169
    Deals with Nature's own remedy for disease, and how to
make use of it.
Chapter XXVI. Breaking the Fast 177
    Discusses various methods of building up the body after
a fast, especially the milk diet.
Chapter XXVII. Diseases and Cures 182
    Discusses some of the commoner human ailments, and
what is known about their cause and cure.
INDEX VOLUME I

VOLUME TWO: LOVE AND SOCIETY

To

Kate Crane Gartz

in acknowledgment of her unceasing efforts for a
better world, and her fidelity to those
who struggle to achieve it.

CONTENTS
 
PART THREE: THE BOOK OF LOVE
PAGE
Chapter XXVIII. The Reality of Marriage 3
    Discusses the sex-customs now existing in the world,
and their relation to the ideal of monogamous love.
Chapter XXIX. The Development of Marriage 8
    Deals with the sex-relationship, its meaning and its history,
the stages of its development in human society.
Chapter XXX. Sex and Young America 15
    Discusses present-day sex arrangements, as they affect
the future generation.
Chapter XXXI. Sex and the "smart Set" 23
    Portrays the moral customs of those who set the fashion
in our present-day world.
Chapter XXXII. Sex and the Poor 29
    Discusses prostitution, the extent of its prevalence, and
the diseases which result from it.
Chapter XXXIII. Sex and Nature 33
    Maintains that our sex disorders are not the result of
natural or physical disharmony.
Chapter XXXIV. Love and Economics 36
    Maintains that our sex disorders are of social origin, due
to the displacing of love by money as a motive in mating.
Chapter XXXV. Marriage and Money 40
    Discusses the causes of prostitution, and that higher
form of prostitution known as the "marriage of convenience."
Chapter XXXVI. Love Versus Lust 46
    Discusses the sex impulse, its use and misuse; when it
should be followed and when repressed.
Chapter XXXVII. Celibacy Versus Chastity 51
    The ideal of the repression of the sex-impulse, as against
the ideal of its guidance and cultivation.
Chapter XXXVIII. The Defense of Love 55
    Discusses passionate love, its sanction, its place in life,
and its preservation in marriage.
Chapter XXXIX. Birth Control 60
    Deals with the prevention of conception as one of the
greatest of man's discoveries, releasing him from nature's
enslavement, and placing the keys of life in his hands.
Chapter XL Early Marriage 66
    Discusses love marriages, how they can be made, and the
duty of parents in respect to them.
Chapter XLI. The Marriage Club 71
    Discusses how parents and elders may help the young to
avoid unhappy marriages.
Chapter XLII. Education for Marriage 75
    Maintains that the art of love can be taught, and that
we have the right and the duty to teach it.
Chapter XLIII. The Money Side of Marriage 79
    Deals with the practical side of the life partnership of
matrimony.
Chapter XLIV. The Defense of Monogamy 83
    Discusses the permanence of love, and why we should
endeavor to preserve it.
Chapter XLV. The Problem of Jealousy 89
    Discusses the question, to what extent one person may
hold another to the pledge of love.
Chapter XLVI. The Problem of Divorce 93
    Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and
one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution.
Chapter XLVII. The Restriction of Divorce 97
    Discusses the circumstances under which society has the
right to forbid divorce, or to impose limitations upon it.
 
PART FOUR: THE BOOK OF SOCIETY
 
Chapter XLVIII. The Ego and the World 103
    Discusses the beginning of consciousness, in the infant
and in primitive man, and the problem of its adjustment
to life.
Chapter XLVIX. Competition and Co-operation 107
    Discusses the relation of the adult to society, and
the part which selfishness and unselfishness play in the
development of social life.
Chapter L. Aristocracy and Democracy 115
    Discusses the idea of superior classes and races, and
whether there is a natural basis for such a doctrine.
Chapter LI. Ruling Classes 119
    Deals with authority in human society, how it is obtained,
and what sanction it can claim.
Chapter LII. The Process of Social Evolution 122
    Discusses the series of changes through which human
society has passed.
Chapter LIII. Industrial Evolution 126
    Examines the process of evolution in industry and the
stage which it has so far reached.
<Chapter LIV. The Class Struggle 132
    Discusses history as a battle-ground between ruling and
subject classes, and the method and outcome of this
struggle.
Chapter LV. The Capitalist System 136
    Shows how wealth is produced in modern society, and
the effect of this system upon the minds of the workers.
>Chapter LVI. The Capitalist Process 142
    How profits are made under the present industrial
system and what becomes of them.
Chapter LVII. Hard Times 145
    Explains why capitalist prosperity is a spasmodic thing,
and why abundant production brings distress instead of
plenty.
Chapter LVIII. The Iron Ring 148
    Analyzes further the profit system, which strangles production,
and makes true prosperity impossible.
Chapter LIX. Foreign Markets 151
    Considers the efforts of capitalism to save itself by marketing
its surplus products abroad, and what results from
these efforts.
Chapter LX. Capitalist War 155
    Shows how the competition for foreign markets leads
nations automatically into war.
Chapter LXI. The Possibilities of Production 158
    Shows how much wealth we could produce if we tried
and how we proved it when we had to.
Chapter LXII. The Cost of Competition 162
    Discusses the losses of friction in our productive machine,
those which are obvious and those which are
hidden.
Chapter LXIII. Socialism and Syndicalism 166
    Discusses the idea of the management of industry by the
state, and the idea of its management by the trade unions.
Chapter LXIV. Communism and Anarchism 170
    Considers the idea of goods owned in common, and the
idea of a society without compulsion, and how these
ideas have fared in Russia.
Chapter LXV. Social Revolution 175
    How the great change is coming in different industries,
and how we may prepare to meet it.
Chapter LXVI. Confiscation Or Compensation 179
    Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? Can they
afford to do it, and what will be the price?
Chapter LXVII. Expropriating the Expropriators 183
    Discusses the dictatorship of the proletariat, and its
chances for success in the United States.
Chapter LXVIII. The Problem of the Land 188
    Discusses the land values tax as a means of social readjustment,
and compares it with other programs.
Chapter LXIX. The Control of Credit 192
    Deals with money, the part it plays in the restriction of
industry, and may play in the freeing of industry.
Chapter LXX. The Control of Industry 198
    Discusses various programs for the change from industrial
autocracy to industrial democracy.
Chapter LXXI. The New World 202
    Describes the co-operative commonwealth, beginning
with its money aspects; the standard wage and its variations.
Chapter LXXII. Agricultural Production 206
    Discusses the land in the new world, and how we foster
co-operative farming and co-operative homes.
Chapter LXXIII. Intellectual Production 210
    Discusses scientific, artistic, and religious activities, as
a superstructure built upon the foundation of the standard
wage.
Chapter LXXIV. Mankind Remade >215
    Discusses human nature and its weaknesses, and what
happens to these in the new world.

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