VOLUME TWO: LOVE AND SOCIETY
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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 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.