Volume Two: Love and Society

The Book of Life

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

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Chapter XXVIII. The Reality of Marriage

Discusses the sex-customs now existing in the world,
and their relation to the ideal of monogamous love.

Chapter XXIX. The Development of Marriage

Deals with the sex-relationship, its meaning and its history,
the stages of its development in human society.

Chapter XXX. Sex and Young America

Discusses present-day sex arrangements, as they affect
the future generation.

Chapter XXXI. Sex and the "smart Set"

Portrays the moral customs of those who set the fashion
in our present-day world.

Chapter XXXII. Sex and the Poor

Discusses prostitution, the extent of its prevalence, and
the diseases which result from it.

Chapter XXXIII. Sex and Nature

Maintains that our sex disorders are not the result of
natural or physical disharmony.

Chapter XXXIV. Love and Economics

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

Discusses the causes of prostitution, and that higher
form of prostitution known as the "marriage of convenience."

Chapter XXXVI. Love Versus Lust

Discusses the sex impulse, its use and misuse; when it
should be followed and when repressed.

Chapter XXXVII. Celibacy Versus Chastity

The ideal of the repression of the sex-impulse, as against
the ideal of its guidance and cultivation.

Chapter XXXVIII. The Defense of Love

Discusses passionate love, its sanction, its place in life,
and its preservation in marriage.

Chapter XXXIX. Birth Control

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

Discusses love marriages, how they can be made, and the
duty of parents in respect to them.

Chapter XLI. The Marriage Club

Discusses how parents and elders may help the young to
avoid unhappy marriages.

Chapter XLII. Education for Marriage

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

Deals with the practical side of the life partnership of
matrimony.

Chapter XLIV. The Defense of Monogamy

Discusses the permanence of love, and why we should
endeavor to preserve it.

Chapter XLV. The Problem of Jealousy

Discusses the question, to what extent one person may
hold another to the pledge of love.

Chapter XLVI. The Problem of Divorce

Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and
one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution.

Chapter XLVII. The Restriction of Divorce

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

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

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

Discusses the idea of superior classes and races, and
whether there is a natural basis for such a doctrine.

Chapter LI. Ruling Classes

Deals with authority in human society, how it is obtained,
and what sanction it can claim.

Chapter LII. The Process of Social Evolution

Discusses the series of changes through which human
society has passed.

Chapter LIII. Industrial Evolution

Examines the process of evolution in industry and the
stage which it has so far reached.

Chapter LIV. The Class Struggle

Discusses history as a battle-ground between ruling and
subject classes, and the method and outcome of this
struggle.

Chapter LV. The Capitalist System

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

How profits are made under the present industrial
system and what becomes of them.

Chapter LVII. Hard Times

Explains why capitalist prosperity is a spasmodic thing,
and why abundant production brings distress instead of
plenty.

Chapter LVIII. The Iron Ring

Analyzes further the profit system, which strangles production,
and makes true prosperity impossible.

Chapter LIX. Foreign Markets

Considers the efforts of capitalism to save itself by marketing
its surplus products abroad, and what results from
these efforts.

Chapter LX. Capitalist War

Shows how the competition for foreign markets leads
nations automatically into war.

Chapter LXI. The Possibilities of Production

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

Discusses the losses of friction in our productive machine,
those which are obvious and those which are
hidden.

Chapter LXIII. Socialism and Syndicalism

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

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

How the great change is coming in different industries,
and how we may prepare to meet it.

Chapter LXVI. Confiscation Or Compensation

Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? Can they
afford to do it, and what will be the price?

Chapter LXVII. Expropriating the Expropriators

Discusses the dictatorship of the proletariat, and its
chances for success in the United States.

Chapter LXVIII. The Problem of the Land

Discusses the land values tax as a means of social readjustment,
and compares it with other programs.

Chapter LXIX. The Control of Credit

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

Discusses various programs for the change from industrial
autocracy to industrial democracy.

Chapter LXXI. The New World

Describes the co-operative commonwealth, beginning
with its money aspects; the standard wage and its variations.

Chapter LXXII. Agricultural Production

Discusses the land in the new world, and how we foster
co-operative farming and co-operative homes.

Chapter LXXIII. Intellectual Production

Discusses scientific, artistic, and religious activities, as
a superstructure built upon the foundation of the standard
wage.

Chapter LXXIV. Mankind Remade

Discusses human nature and its weaknesses, and what
happens to these in the new world.