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CONTENTS | |
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PART ONE: THE BOOK OF THE MIND | |
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Chapter I. The Nature of Life | 3 |
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 Faith | 8 |
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 Reason | 12 |
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 Morality | 17 |
Compares the ways of Nature with human morality, and tries to show how the latter came to be. | |
Chapter V. Nature and Man | 21 |
Attempts to show how man has taken control of Nature, and is carrying on her processes and improving upon them. | |
Chapter VI. Man the Rebel | 27 |
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 Morals | 31 |
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 Moderation | 37 |
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 Life | 42 |
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 |
To
Kate Crane Gartz
in acknowledgment of her unceasing efforts for a
better world, and her fidelity to those
who struggle to achieve it.
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PART THREE: THE BOOK OF LOVE | |
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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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