| CONTENTS |
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| 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. |
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| PART FOUR: THE BOOK OF SOCIETY |
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| 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. |
