Abrams, Dr., 190
Adultery, 33
Adventist, 99
Agriculture, 25
Alcohol, 151
Anti-bodies, 188
Antinomies, 58
Appendix, 186
Arnold, 42
Arrhenius, 101
Automatic writing, 67

Bairnsfather, 29
Bathing, 162
Battle Creek Sanitarium, 118
Beauchamp, 70, 85, 89
Beethoven, 47
Bergson, 17
Beri-beri, 128
Bible, 77
Bio-chemist, 59
Black bread, 128
Blood, 106
Body, 53, 105
Booth, 58
Bourne, 69
Bruce, 71
Bury, 15

Caffein, 150
Calories, 135
Candy, 137
Capitalist, 100
Carbohydrates, 124
Carbon monoxide, 157
Children, 140, 180
Chiropractors, 174, 184
Chittenden, 136
Christian Scientists, 5, 65, 105
Clothing, 160
Coffee, 151
Colds, 183
Commandments, 32
Communist, 99
Complete fast, 172
Comstock, 25
Conduct, 42
Consciousness, 56
Constipation, 185
Cooking, 129, 142
Crawford, 88
Cyrus, 164

Dandruff, 109
Dante, 77
Darwin, 17, 46
Dentistry, 126, 190
Determinists, 57
Diet, 131
Diet Standards, 135
Digestion, 145
Diphtheria, 188
Diseases, 107, 117
Dogs, 17
Draft, 182
Drugs, 118, 150, 185, 189
Dubb, 63
Duncan, 102
Dyspepsia, 117

Eddy, 65
Edison, 45, 86
Einstein, 101
Elberfeld horses, 68
Evolution, 8, 17
Exercise, 163

Faith, 9
Faith curists, 65
Fast cure, 171
Fatness, 139
Fats, 124
Fever, 108
Fireless cooker, 142
Fireplace, 157
Fisher, 136
Fletcher, 119, 145
Food filter, 145
Fourth dimension, 5
Free thinker, 15
Freud, 71
Fruit fast,
175
Frugality, 38
Frying-pan, 129
Furnace, 157

Gargles, 184
Gastronomic art, 148
Genius, 49, 60
George, 18
Germs, 183
God, 22, 50
Goethe, 47
Golden rule, 51
Greens, 132
Gymnastic work, 166

Hair, 109
Hallucinations, 75
Hamlet, 48
Happiness, 9
Harrison, 6
Hats, 110
Headache, 122, 150, 184
Health cranks, 182
Heart, 108
Houdin, 93
Hugo, 48
Huxley, 17, 62
Hyslop, 82

Iceberg, 61
Infanticide, 28
Instincts, 134
Intelligence, 22
Immortality, 79
Irwin, Will, 86

James, 30, 59, 60
Jesus, 47, 48, 50, 51, 76
John Barleycorn, 152
Johnson, 58
Jonson, 44

Kant, Immanuel, 4, 47, 51, 58
Kellogg, Doctor, 118, 164, 186
Kilmer, Joyce, 44
Knowledge, 94
Kropotkin, 18, 26

Langley, 74
Lankester, Prof. E. Ray, 23
Laxatives, 175, 185
Leanness, 139
Leonardo, 47
Liébault, 64
Life, 3
Lily Dale, 86, 90
Lincoln, 47
Locomotor ataxia, 180
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 83
Lodge, Raymond, 87
London, Jack, 152

Macaulay, 39
MacDowell, Edward, 56
MacFadden, 178, 186
MacSwiney, 170
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 68
Malaria, 189
Malthusian law, 25
Marquesans, 113
Materializations, 88
Matter, 3
Meal-hour, 147
Measurement of Intelligence, Terman's, 95
Meat, 121
Medical science, 105
Mesmer, 63
Messina earthquake, 170
Metaphysics, 4
Metchnikoff, 138
Milk diet, 128
Moderation, 39
Monism, 3
Morality, 21, 31, 34, 50
Morgan, 45
Mormon, 99
Mozart, 68
Multiple personality, 69
Mutation, 17
Myers, 49

Nature, 21, 24, 29
Nature cure, 160
Nature Woman, 176
Neighbor, 50
Newcomb, Simon, 101
Newton, 47
New York Times,
169
Nicotine, 154
Nietzsche, 17
Novels, 164
Nutrition of Man, 136

Oil stoves, 158
Opsonins, 112
Optimism, 42
Osteopaths, 184
Ouija, 67
Overeating, 134
Oxygen, 156

Patrick, Dr., 167
Pavlov, 148
Phantasms, 75
Phillips, David Graham, 180
Piper, Mrs., 68
Play, 165
Poisons, 146
Pork, 142
Porter, Dr., 178
Positivists, 6
Poverty, 194
Prices of food, 141
Prince, Dr. Morton, 70, 89
Profits of Religion, 78, 99
Proteins, 123
Prunes, 127
Psychology, 96
Psychotherapy, 64
Puritans, 39

Quackenbos, 64
Quinine, 188
Quixote, 48

Raisins, 127
Raw food, 119
Read, Alfred Baker, 28
Reason, 13
Refined foods, 126
Relaxation, 167
Religion, 32
Reincarnation, 76
Rest, 146
Revelation, 12
Rheumatism, 193
Rice, 128
Rockefeller, 45
Roosevelt, Theodore, 25, 45
Rugs, 159
Rupture, 187

Sabbath, 99
Salisbury, 120
Sally, 70, 85
Salt, 143
Meats, salted, 143
Salts, 124
Salvarsan, 189
Savages, 135
Savage, Rev. Minot J., 74
Schrenck-Notzing, 88
Scurvy, 128
Seneca, 98
Shakespeare, 47
Shelley, 45, 48
Sleep, 162
Sleeping sickness, 113, 173
Smokers, 153
Socialism, 167
Sophocles, 87
Sore throat, 183
Spencer, 8
Spinoza, 79
Spirits, 82
Spiritualists, 86
Starch, 122, 124
Stealing, 33
Steam heat, 158
Stimulant, 149
Stock Exchange, 158
Stomach, 105, 138, 148
Style, 161
Subconscious mind, 61
Sunday code, 40
Sugar, 126
Surgery, 186
Survival, 81
Survival of the fittest, 22
Syndicalism, 15
Syphilis, 189

Tanner, Dr., 169
Tariff, 37
Tea, 151
Teeth, 127, 193
Telepathy, 67, 75
Theosophists, 76
Tight shoes,
161
Tobacco, 153
Tolstoi, 49
Tonsilitis, 107
Trance, 63
Tropism, 54
Tuberculosis, 112, 120, 179, 194, 195
Twain, Mark, 93
Typhoid, 112, 188, 192

Uranus, 92
Uric acid, 193

Vaccination, 187, 189
Vaccines, 188
Vegetarian, 121
Vitamines, 127, 142

Wallace, 46
Wells, H. G., 22
Williams, Dr. Henry Smith, 102
Worth, Patience, 84

Yellow fever, 188
Yogis, 90

THE BOOK OF LIFE

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 Marriage3
    Discusses the sex-customs now existing in the world,
and their relation to the ideal of monogamous love.
Chapter XXIX. The Development of Marriage8
    Deals with the sex-relationship, its meaning and its history,
the stages of its development in human society.
Chapter XXX. Sex and Young America15
    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 Poor29
    Discusses prostitution, the extent of its prevalence, and
the diseases which result from it.
Chapter XXXIII. Sex and Nature33
    Maintains that our sex disorders are not the result of
natural or physical disharmony.
Chapter XXXIV. Love and Economics36
    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 Money40
    Discusses the causes of prostitution, and that higher
form of prostitution known as the "marriage of convenience."
Chapter XXXVI. Love Versus Lust46
    Discusses the sex impulse, its use and misuse; when it
should be followed and when repressed.
Chapter XXXVII. Celibacy Versus Chastity51
    The ideal of the repression of the sex-impulse, as against
the ideal of its guidance and cultivation.
Chapter XXXVIII. The Defense of Love55
    Discusses passionate love, its sanction, its place in life,
and its preservation in marriage.
Chapter XXXIX. Birth Control60
    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 Marriage66
    Discusses love marriages, how they can be made, and the
duty of parents in respect to them.
Chapter XLI. The Marriage Club71
    Discusses how parents and elders may help the young to
avoid unhappy marriages.
Chapter XLII. Education for Marriage75
    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 Marriage79
    Deals with the practical side of the life partnership of
matrimony.
Chapter XLIV. The Defense of Monogamy83
    Discusses the permanence of love, and why we should
endeavor to preserve it.
Chapter XLV. The Problem of Jealousy89
    Discusses the question, to what extent one person may
hold another to the pledge of love.
Chapter XLVI. The Problem of Divorce93
    Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and
one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution.
Chapter XLVII. The Restriction of Divorce97
    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 World103
    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-operation107
    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 Democracy115
    Discusses the idea of superior classes and races, and
whether there is a natural basis for such a doctrine.
Chapter LI. Ruling Classes119
    Deals with authority in human society, how it is obtained,
and what sanction it can claim.
Chapter LII. The Process of Social Evolution122
    Discusses the series of changes through which human
society has passed.
Chapter LIII. Industrial Evolution126
    Examines the process of evolution in industry and the
stage which it has so far reached.
Chapter LIV. The Class Struggle132
    Discusses history as a battle-ground between ruling and
subject classes, and the method and outcome of this
struggle.
Chapter LV. The Capitalist System136
    Shows how wealth is produced in modern society, and
the effect of this system upon the minds of the workers.
Chapter LVI. The Capitalist Process142
    How profits are made under the present industrial
system and what becomes of them.
Chapter LVII. Hard Times145
    Explains why capitalist prosperity is a spasmodic thing,
and why abundant production brings distress instead of
plenty.
Chapter LVIII. The Iron Ring148
    Analyzes further the profit system, which strangles production,
and makes true prosperity impossible.
Chapter LIX. Foreign Markets151
    Considers the efforts of capitalism to save itself by marketing
its surplus products abroad, and what results from
these efforts.
Chapter LX. Capitalist War155
    Shows how the competition for foreign markets leads
nations automatically into war.
Chapter LXI. The Possibilities of Production158
    Shows how much wealth we could produce if we tried
and how we proved it when we had to.
Chapter LXII. The Cost of Competition162
    Discusses the losses of friction in our productive machine,
those which are obvious and those which are
hidden.
Chapter LXIII. Socialism and Syndicalism166
    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 Anarchism170
    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 Revolution175
    How the great change is coming in different industries,
and how we may prepare to meet it.
Chapter LXVI. Confiscation Or Compensation179
    Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? Can they
afford to do it, and what will be the price?
Chapter LXVII. Expropriating the Expropriators183
    Discusses the dictatorship of the proletariat, and its
chances for success in the United States.
Chapter LXVIII. The Problem of the Land188
    Discusses the land values tax as a means of social readjustment,
and compares it with other programs.
Chapter LXIX. The Control of Credit192
    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 Industry198
    Discusses various programs for the change from industrial
autocracy to industrial democracy.
Chapter LXXI. The New World202
    Describes the co-operative commonwealth, beginning
with its money aspects; the standard wage and its variations.
Chapter LXXII. Agricultural Production206
    Discusses the land in the new world, and how we foster
co-operative farming and co-operative homes.
Chapter LXXIII. Intellectual Production210
    Discusses scientific, artistic, and religious activities, as
a superstructure built upon the foundation of the standard
wage.
Chapter LXXIV. Mankind Remade215
    Discusses human nature and its weaknesses, and what
happens to these in the new world.