Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Upton Sinclair
Author: Upton Sinclair
Editor: David Widger
Release date: June 3, 2019 [eBook #59670]
Most recently updated: February 25, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger

| PREFACE |
| PRESS COMMENTS ON THE PLAY |
| CHAPTER I |
| CHAPTER II |
| CHAPTER III |
| CHAPTER IV |
| CHAPTER V |
| CHAPTER VI |
| THE PROFITS OF RELIGION |
| OFFERTORY |
| INTRODUCTORY |
| BOOTSTRAP-LIFTING |
| RELIGION |
| BOOK ONE — The Church of the Conquerors |
| The Priestly Lie |
| The Great Fear |
| Salve Regina! |
| Fresh Meat |
| Priestly Empires |
| Prayer-wheels |
| The Butcher-Gods |
| The Holy Inquisition |
| Hell-Fire |
| BOOK TWO — The Church of Good Society |
| The Babylonian Fire-god |
| The Medicine-men |
| The Canonization of Incompetence |
| Gibson's Preservative |
| The Elders |
| Church History |
| Land and Livings |
| Graft in Tail |
| Bishops and Beer |
| Anglicanism and Alcohol |
| Dead Cats |
| Suffer Little Children |
| The Court Circular |
| Horn-blowing |
| Trinity Corporation |
| Spiritual Interpretation |
| BOOK THREE — The Church of the Servant-girls |
| Charity |
| God's Armor |
| Thanksgivings |
| The Holy Roman Empire |
| Temporal Power |
| Knights of Slavery |
| Priests and Police |
| The Church Militant |
| The Church Triumphant |
| God in the Schools |
| The Menace |
| King Coal |
| The Unholy Alliance |
| Secret Service |
| Tax Exemption |
| "Holy History" |
| Das Centrum |
| BOOK FOUR — The Church of the Slavers |
| Face of Caesar |
| Deutschland ueber Alles |
| Der Tag. |
| King Cotton |
| Witches and Women |
| Moth and Rust |
| The Octopus |
| The Industrial Shelley |
| The Outlook for Graft |
| Clerical Camouflage |
| The Jungle |
| BOOK FIVE — The Church of the Merchants |
| The Head Merchant |
| "Herr Beeble" |
| Holy Oil |
| Rhetorical Black-hanging |
| The Great American Fraud |
| Riches in Glory |
| Captivating Ideals |
| Spook Hunting |
| Running the Rapids |
| Birth Control |
| Sheep |
| BOOK SIX — The Church of the Quacks |
| Tabula Rasa |
| The Book of Mormon |
| Holy Rolling |
| Bible Prophecy |
| Koreshanity |
| Mazdaznan |
| Black Magic |
| Mental Malpractice |
| Science and Wealth |
| New Nonsense |
| "Dollars Want Me" |
| Spiritual Financiering |
| The Graft of Grace |
| BOOK SEVEN — The Church of the Social Revolution |
| Christ and Caesar |
| Locusts and Wild Honey |
| Mother Earth |
| The Soap Box |
| The Church Machine |
| The Church Redeemed |
| The Desire of Nations |
| The Knowable |
| Nature's Insurgent Son |
| The New Morality |
| Envoi |
| Reader: |
| CHARACTERS |
| THE NATUREWOMAN |
| ACT I |
| ACT II |
| ACT III |
| ACT IV |
| ACT I |
| ACT II |
| ACT III |
| ACT IV |
| CHARACTERS |
| THE MACHINE |
| ACT I |
| ACT II |
| ACT III |
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| JIMMIE HIGGINS | |
| CHAPTER I | JIMMIE HIGGINS MEETS THE CANDIDATE |
| CHAPTER II | JIMMIE HIGGINS HEARS A SPEECH |
| CHAPTER III | JIMMIE HIGGINS DEBATES THE ISSUE |
| CHAPTER IV | JIMMIE HIGGINS STRIKES IT RICH |
| CHAPTER V | JIMMIE HIGGINS HELPS THE KAISER |
| CHAPTER VI | JIMMIE HIGGINS GOES TO JAIL |
| CHAPTER VII | JIMMIE HIGGINS DALLIES WITH CUPID |
| CHAPTER VIII | JIMMIE HIGGINS PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT |
| CHAPTER IX | JIMMIE HIGGINS RETURNS TO NATURE |
| CHAPTER X | JIMMIE HIGGINS MEETS THE OWNER |
| CHAPTER XI | JIMMIE HIGGINS FACES THE WAR |
| CHAPTER XII | JIMMIE HIGGINS MEETS A PATRIOT |
| CHAPTER XIII | JIMMIE HIGGINS DODGES TROUBLE |
| CHAPTER XIV | JIMMIE HIGGINS TAKES THE ROAD |
| CHAPTER XV | JIMMIE HIGGINS TURNS BOLSHEVIK |
| CHAPTER XVI | JIMMIE HIGGINS MEETS THE TEMPTER |
| CHAPTER XVII | JIMMIE HIGGINS WRESTLES WITH THE TEMPTER |
| CHAPTER XVIII | JIMMIE HIGGINS TAKES THE PLUNGE |
| CHAPTER XIX | JIMMIE HIGGINS PUTS ON KHAKI |
| CHAPTER XX | JIMMIE HIGGINS TAKES A SWIM |
| CHAPTER XXI | JIMMIE HIGGINS ENTERS SOCIETY |
| CHAPTER XXII | JIMMIE HIGGINS WORKS FOR HIS UNCLE |
| CHAPTER XXIII | JIMMIE HIGGINS MEETS THE HUN |
| CHAPTER XXIV | JIMMIE HIGGINS SEES THE OTHER SIDE |
| CHAPTER XXV | JIMMIE HIGGINS ENTERS INTO DANGER |
| CHAPTER XXVI | JIMMIE HIGGINS DISCOVERS HIS SOUL |
| CHAPTER XXVII | JIMMIE HIGGINS VOTES FOR DEMOCRACY |
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| THE POT BOILER |
| ACT I. |
| ACT II. |
| ACT III. |
| ACT IV. |
| POSTSCRIPT |
| SYLVIA’S MARRIAGE |
| BOOK I. SYLVIA AS WIFE |
| BOOK II. SYLVIA AS MOTHER |
| BOOK III. SYLVIA AS REBEL |
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| INTRODUCTION | |
| BOOK ONE | THE DOMAIN OF KING COAL |
| BOOK TWO | THE SERFS OF KING COAL |
| BOOK THREE | THE HENCHMEN OF KING COAL |
| BOOK FOUR | THE WILL OF KING COAL |
| POSTSCRIPT |
| EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION |
| READER: |
| PART I. WRITING A POEM |
| PART II. SEEKING A PUBLISHER |
| PART III. THE END |
| I. | SIGHTING A PRIZE. | 5 |
| II. | A LONG CHASE. | 10 |
| III. | AN OLD ENEMY. | 19 |
| IV. | IN COMMAND OF THE PRIZE. | 28 |
| V. | A HAIL FROM THE DARKNESS. | 32 |
| VI. | REPELLING BOARDERS. | 39 |
| VII. | A DESPERATE CHASE. | 46 |
| VIII. | A DASH FOR THE SHORE. | 51 |
| IX. | THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY. | 56 |
| X. | A STARTLING DISCOVERY. | 63 |
| XI. | A RUNNING FIGHT. | 67 |
| XII. | THE FIRST PRISONERS OF WAR. | 72 |
| XIII. | IGNACIO'S PLOTS. | 78 |
| XIV. | BESSIE STUART. | 85 |
| XV. | IN MORRO CASTLE. | 94 |
| XVI. | IN THE DUNGEON VAULTS. | 99 |
| XVII. | OUT OF THE DUNGEON. | 104 |
| XVIII. | CLIF FARADAY'S SACRIFICE. | 112 |
| XIX. | A FAREWELL. | 120 |
| XX. | AN UNEXPECTED PERIL. | 127 |
| XXI. | RECAPTURED BY THE ENEMY. | 133 |
| XXII. | CUTTING A CABLE. | 139 |
| XXIII. | A PERILOUS DETAIL. | 146 |
| XXIV. | THE CUBAN COURIER. | 152 |
| XXV. | "IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY AND THE SAILORS OF THE MAINE!" | 158 |
| XXVI. | A GAME OF BLUFF. | 164 |
| XXVII. | IN WHICH CLIF MEETS WITH A SURPRISE. | 170 |
| XXVIII. | A STRUGGLE AGAINST ODDS. | 176 |
| XXIX. | CLIF'S SECOND EXPEDITION. | 182 |
| XXX. | THE BATTLE IN THE BRUSH. | 187 |
| XXXI. | CAPTURED. | 194 |
| XXXII. | CLIF FARADAY'S TEST. | 201 |
| XXXIII. | THE MYSTERY OF THE UNEXPLODED SHELL. | 208 |
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| I— | A "Yearling" Meeting | 7 |
| II— | Mark's Mysterious Visitor | 19 |
| III— | Trouble for Mark | 26 |
| IV— | The Explanation | 38 |
| V— | Mark in Disgrace | 46 |
| VI— | Indian's Re-examination | 58 |
| VII— | The Examination of the Parson | 66 |
| VIII— | The Rescue Party | 72 |
| IX— | Heroism of the Parson | 76 |
| X— | More Troubles | 81 |
| XI— | Disadvantages of "Coventry" | 85 |
| XII— | The Embassy of the Parson | 91 |
| XIII— | Preparations for the Battle | 99 |
| XIV— | The Affair at the Fort | 109 |
| XV— | Two Plebes in Hospital | 117 |
| XVI— | The Parson's Indignation | 124 |
| XVII— | Indian in Trouble | 133 |
| XVIII— | To the Rescue | 146 |
| XIX— | The Alliance is Completed | 156 |
| XX— | Indignation of the Yearlings | 162 |
| XXI— | A Mild Attempt at Hazing | 171 |
| XXII— | The Bombshell Falls | 177 |
| XXIII— | In the Shadow of Dismissal | 185 |
| XXIV— | A Letter | 193 |
| XXV— | A Swimming Match | 204 |
| XXVI— | The Finish of a Race | 211 |
| XXVII— | What Mark Did | 219 |
| XXVIII— | Mark Meets the Superintendent | 231 |
| XXIX— | The Seven in Session | 239 |
| XXX— | The Move into Camp | 248 |
| XXXI— | "First Night" | 257 |
| XXXII— | Conclusion | 268 |
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| I.— | A Letter from a "Furlough Man" | 7 |
| II.— | Mark's Idea | 15 |
| III.— | A New Ally | 22 |
| IV.— | A Surprise for the Seven | 31 |
| V.— | The Scheme Succeeds | 36 |
| VI.— | What Mark Overheard | 46 |
| VII.— | Mark's Counterplot | 57 |
| VIII.— | The Attack on Mark | 65 |
| IX.— | Three Discomfited Yearlings | 74 |
| X.— | Texas Runs Amuck | 80 |
| XI.— | Texas Raids West Point | 91 |
| XII.— | The Cause of a Friend | 103 |
| XIII.— | The Reformation of Texas | 110 |
| XIV.— | A Plot of the Yearlings | 118 |
| XV.— | The Plebes Plot, Too | 128 |
| XVI.— | Setting the Trap | 133 |
| XVII.— | The Result at the Hop | 141 |
| XVIII.— | A Strange Announcement | 149 |
| XIX.— | Texas Turns Highwayman | 160 |
| XX.— | Two Midnight Prowlers | 167 |
| XXI.— | Benny is Exposed | 178 |
| XXII.— | Mark Receives a Committee | 183 |
| XXIII.— | A Fight, and Other Things | 199 |
| XXIV.— | Six to the Rescue | 208 |
| XXV.— | Mark in the Hospital | 216 |
| XXVI.— | Texas Has an Interview | 224 |
| XXVII.— | A Plot to Beat "the General" | 232 |
| XXVIII.— | "Bull" Finds an Ally | 241 |
| XXIX.— | Strange Conduct | 250 |
| XXX.— | A Surprise for Murray | 256 |
| XXXI.— | The Plot Succeeds | 265 |
| XXXII.— | Triumph—Conclusion | 277 |
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| Chapter I. The Nature of Life | 3 |
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Attempts to show what we know about life; to set the bounds of real truth as distinguished from phrases and self-deception. |
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| Chapter II. The Nature of Faith | 8 |
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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. |
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| Chapter III. The Use of Reason | 12 |
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Attempts to show that in the field to which reason
applies we are compelled to use it, and are justified in trusting it. |
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| Chapter IV. The Origin of Morality | 17 |
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Compares the ways of Nature with human morality, and tries to show how the latter came to be. |
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| Chapter V. Nature and Man | 21 |
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Attempts to show how man has taken control of Nature, and is carrying on her processes and improving upon them. |
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| Chapter VI. Man the Rebel | 27 |
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Shows the transition stage between instinct and reason, in which man finds himself, and how he can advance to a securer condition. |
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| Chapter VII. Making Our Morals | 31 |
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Attempts to show that human morality must change to fit human facts, and there can be no judge of it save human reason. |
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| Chapter VIII. The Virtue of Moderation | 37 |
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Attempts to show that wise conduct is an adjustment of means to ends, and depends upon the understanding of a particular set of circumstances. |
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| Chapter IX. The Choosing of Life | 42 |
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Discusses the standards by which we may judge what is best in life, and decide what we wish to make of it. |
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| Chapter X. Myself and My Neighbor | 50 |
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Compares the new morality with the old, and discusses
the relative importance of our various duties. |
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| Chapter XI. The Mind and the Body | 53 |
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Discusses the interaction between physical and mental things, and the possibility of freedom in a world of fixed causes. |
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| Chapter XII. The Mind of the Body | 61 |
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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. |
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| Chapter XIII. Exploring the Subconscious | 67 |
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Discusses automatic writing, the analysis of dreams, and other methods by which a new universe of life has been brought to human knowledge. |
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| Chapter XIV. The Problem of Immortality | 74 |
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Discusses the survival of personality from the moral
point of view: that is, have we any claim upon life, entitling us to live forever? |
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| Chapter XV. The Evidence for Survival | 81 |
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Discusses the data of psychic research, and the proofs
of spiritism thus put before us. |
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| Chapter XVI. The Powers of the Mind | 91 |
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Sets forth the fact that knowledge is freedom and
ignorance is slavery, and what science means to the people. |
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| Chapter XVII. The Conduct of the Mind | 98 |
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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. |
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| PART TWO: THE BOOK OF THE BODY | |
| Chapter XVIII. The Unity of the Body | 105 |
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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. |
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| Chapter XIX. Experiments in Diet | 115 |
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Narrates the author's adventures in search of health,
and his conclusions as to what to eat. |
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| Chapter XX. Errors in Diet | 123 |
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Discusses the different kinds of foods, and the part
they play in the making of health and disease. |
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| Chapter XXI. Diet Standards | 134 |
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Discusses various foods and their food values, the
quantities we need, and their money cost. |
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| Chapter XXII. Foods and Poisons | 145 |
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Concludes the subject of diet, and discusses the effect
upon the system of stimulants and narcotics. |
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| Chapter XXIII. More About Health | 156 |
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Discusses the subjects of breathing and ventilation,
clothing, bathing and sleep. |
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| Chapter XXIV. Work and Play | 163 |
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Deals with the question of exercise, both for the idle
and the overworked. |
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| Chapter XXV. The Fasting Cure | 169 |
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Deals with Nature's own remedy for disease, and how to make use of it. |
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| Chapter XXVI. Breaking the Fast | 177 |
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Discusses various methods of building up the body after a fast, especially the milk diet. |
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| Chapter XXVII. Diseases and Cures | 182 |
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Discusses some of the commoner human ailments, and what is known about their cause and cure. |
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| INDEX VOLUME I | |
| PART THREE: THE BOOK OF LOVE | |
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| Chapter XXVIII. The Reality of Marriage | 3 |
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Discusses the sex-customs now existing in the world, and their relation to the ideal of monogamous love. |
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| Chapter XXIX. The Development of Marriage | 8 |
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Deals with the sex-relationship, its meaning and its
history, the stages of its development in human society. |
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| Chapter XXX. Sex and Young America | 15 |
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Discusses present-day sex arrangements, as they affect the future generation. |
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| Chapter XXXI. Sex and the "smart Set" | 23 |
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Portrays the moral customs of those who set the fashion in our present-day world. |
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| Chapter XXXII. Sex and the Poor | 29 |
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Discusses prostitution, the extent of its prevalence,
and the diseases which result from it. |
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| Chapter XXXIII. Sex and Nature | 33 |
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Maintains that our sex disorders are not the result of natural or physical disharmony. |
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| Chapter XXXIV. Love and Economics | 36 |
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Maintains that our sex disorders are of social origin,
due to the displacing of love by money as a motive in mating. |
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| Chapter XXXV. Marriage and Money | 40 |
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Discusses the causes of prostitution, and that higher form of prostitution known as the "marriage of convenience." |
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| Chapter XXXVI. Love Versus Lust | 46 |
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Discusses the sex impulse, its use and misuse; when it should be followed and when repressed. |
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| Chapter XXXVII. Celibacy Versus Chastity | 51 |
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The ideal of the repression of the sex-impulse, as
against the ideal of its guidance and cultivation. |
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| Chapter XXXVIII. The Defense of Love | 55 |
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Discusses passionate love, its sanction, its place in
life, and its preservation in marriage. |
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| Chapter XXXIX. Birth Control | 60 |
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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. |
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| Chapter XL. Early Marriage | 66 |
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Discusses love marriages, how they can be made, and the duty of parents in respect to them. |
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| Chapter XLI. The Marriage Club | 71 |
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Discusses how parents and elders may help the young to avoid unhappy marriages. |
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| Chapter XLII. Education for Marriage | 75 |
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Maintains that the art of love can be taught, and that we have the right and the duty to teach it. |
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| Chapter XLIII. The Money Side of Marriage | 79 |
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Deals with the practical side of the life partnership of matrimony. |
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| Chapter XLIV. The Defense of Monogamy | 83 |
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Discusses the permanence of love, and why we should endeavor to preserve it. |
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| Chapter XLV. The Problem of Jealousy | 89 |
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Discusses the question, to what extent one person may hold another to the pledge of love. |
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| Chapter XLVI. The Problem of Divorce | 93 |
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Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution. |
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| Chapter XLVII. The Restriction of Divorce | 97 |
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Discusses the circumstances under which society has the right to forbid divorce, or to impose limitations upon it. |
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| PART FOUR: THE BOOK OF SOCIETY | |
| Chapter XLVIII. The Ego and the World | 103 |
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Discusses the beginning of consciousness, in the infant and in primitive man, and the problem of its adjustment to life. |
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| Chapter XLVIX. Competition and Co-operation | 107 |
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Discusses the relation of the adult to society, and the part which selfishness and unselfishness play in the development of social life. |
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| Chapter L. Aristocracy and Democracy | 115 |
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Discusses the idea of superior classes and races, and whether there is a natural basis for such a doctrine. |
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| Chapter LI. Ruling Classes | 119 |
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Deals with authority in human society, how it is
obtained, and what sanction it can claim. |
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| Chapter LII. The Process of Social Evolution | 122 |
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Discusses the series of changes through which human society has passed. |
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| Chapter LIII. Industrial Evolution | 126 |
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Examines the process of evolution in industry and the stage which it has so far reached. |
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| Chapter LIV. The Class Struggle | 132 |
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Discusses history as a battle-ground between ruling and subject classes, and the method and outcome of this struggle. |
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| Chapter LV. The Capitalist System | 136 |
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Shows how wealth is produced in modern society, and the effect of this system upon the minds of the workers. |
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| Chapter LVI. The Capitalist Process | 142 |
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How profits are made under the present industrial system and what becomes of them. |
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| Chapter LVII. Hard Times | 145 |
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Explains why capitalist prosperity is a spasmodic thing, and why abundant production brings distress instead of plenty. |
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| Chapter LVIII. The Iron Ring | 148 |
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Analyzes further the profit system, which strangles
production, and makes true prosperity impossible. |
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| Chapter LIX. Foreign Markets | 151 |
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Considers the efforts of capitalism to save itself by
marketing its surplus products abroad, and what results from these efforts. |
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| Chapter LX. Capitalist War | 155 |
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Shows how the competition for foreign markets leads nations automatically into war. |
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| Chapter LXI. The Possibilities of Production | 158 |
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Shows how much wealth we could produce if we tried and how we proved it when we had to. |
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| Chapter LXII. The Cost of Competition | 162 |
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Discusses the losses of friction in our productive
machine, those which are obvious and those which are hidden. |
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| Chapter LXIII. Socialism and Syndicalism | 166 |
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Discusses the idea of the management of industry by the state, and the idea of its management by the trade unions. |
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| Chapter LXIV. Communism and Anarchism | 170 |
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Considers the idea of goods owned in common, and the idea of a society without compulsion, and how these ideas have fared in Russia. |
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| Chapter LXV. Social Revolution | 175 |
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How the great change is coming in different industries, and how we may prepare to meet it. |
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| Chapter LXVI. Confiscation Or Compensation | 179 |
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Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? Can they afford to do it, and what will be the price? |
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| Chapter LXVII. Expropriating the Expropriators | 183 |
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Discusses the dictatorship of the proletariat, and its chances for success in the United States. |
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| Chapter LXVIII. The Problem of the Land | 188 |
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Discusses the land values tax as a means of social
readjustment, and compares it with other programs. |
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| Chapter LXIX. The Control of Credit | 192 |
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Deals with money, the part it plays in the restriction
of industry, and may play in the freeing of industry. |
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| Chapter LXX. The Control of Industry | 198 |
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Discusses various programs for the change from
industrial autocracy to industrial democracy. |
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| Chapter LXXI. The New World | 202 |
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Describes the co-operative commonwealth, beginning with its money aspects; the standard wage and its variations. |
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| Chapter LXXII. Agricultural Production | 206 |
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Discusses the land in the new world, and how we foster co-operative farming and co-operative homes. |
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| Chapter LXXIII. Intellectual Production | 210 |
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Discusses scientific, artistic, and religious
activities, as a superstructure built upon the foundation of the standard wage. |
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| Chapter LXXIV. Mankind Remade | 215 |
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Discusses human nature and its weaknesses, and what happens to these in the new world. |
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