The Book of Life Part 20

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

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CHAPTER XXVIII. THE REALITY OF MARRIAGE 3 Discusses the s.e.x-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 s.e.x-relations.h.i.+p, its meaning and its history, the stages of its development in human society.

CHAPTER x.x.x. s.e.x AND YOUNG AMERICA 15 Discusses present-day s.e.x arrangements, as they affect the future generation.

CHAPTER x.x.xI. s.e.x AND THE "SMART SET" 23 Portrays the moral customs of those who set the fas.h.i.+on in our present-day world.

CHAPTER x.x.xII. s.e.x AND THE POOR 29 Discusses prost.i.tution, the extent of its prevalence, and the diseases which result from it.

CHAPTER x.x.xIII. s.e.x AND NATURE 33 Maintains that our s.e.x disorders are not the result of natural or physical disharmony.

CHAPTER x.x.xIV. LOVE AND ECONOMICS 36 Maintains that our s.e.x disorders are of social origin, due to the displacing of love by money as a motive in mating.

CHAPTER x.x.xV. MARRIAGE AND MONEY 40 Discusses the causes of prost.i.tution, and that higher form of prost.i.tution known as the "marriage of convenience."

CHAPTER x.x.xVI. LOVE VERSUS l.u.s.t 46 Discusses the s.e.x impulse, its use and misuse; when it should be followed and when repressed.

CHAPTER x.x.xVII. CELIBACY VERSUS CHASt.i.tY 51

The ideal of the repression of the s.e.x-impulse, as against the ideal of its guidance and cultivation.

CHAPTER x.x.xVIII. THE DEFENSE OF LOVE 55

Discusses pa.s.sionate love, its sanction, its place in life, and its preservation in marriage.

CHAPTER x.x.xIX. 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 partners.h.i.+p 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 prost.i.tution.

CHAPTER XLVII. THE RESTRICTION OF DIVORCE 97

Discusses the circ.u.mstances 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. COMPEt.i.tION 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 cla.s.ses and races, and whether there is a natural basis for such a doctrine.