Book of Life
by Upton Sinclair
About this book
Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice both provokes and enlightens page by page. (Summary by Rom Maczka)
Chapters (35)
101 - Nature of Life & Nature of Faith
202 - Use of Reason & Origin of Morality
303 - Nature and Man & Man the Rebel
404 - Making Our Morals & Virtues of Moderation
505 - The Choosing of Life & Myself and My Neighbor
606 - The Mind and the Body & The Mind of the Body
707 - Exploring the Subconscious & The Problem of Immortality
808 - The Evidence for Survival
909 - The Powers of the Mind & The Conduct of the Mind
1010 - The Unity of the Body
1111 - Experiments in Diet
1212 - Errors in Diet
1313 - Diet Standards
1414 - Foods and Poisons
1515 - More About Health & Work and Play
1616 - The Fasting Cure & Breaking the Fast
1717 - Diseases and Cures
1818 - The Reality of Marriage & The Development of Marriage
1919 - Sex and Young America & Sex and the Smart Set
2020 - Sex & the Poor, Sex & Nature, and Love & Economics
2121 - Marriage & Money, Love Versus Lust, Celibacy Versus Chastity
2222 - The Defense of Love, Birth Control
2323 - Early Marriage, The Marriage Club, Education for Marriage
2424 - The Money Side of Marriage, The Defense of Monogamy, The Problem of Jealousy
2525 - The Problem of Divorce, The Restriction of Divorce
2626 - The Ego and the World, Competition and Co-operation
2727 - Aristocracy & Democracy, Ruling Classes, The Process of Social Evolution
2828 - Industrial Evolution, The Class Struggle, The Capitalist System
2929 - The Capitalist Process, Hard Times, The Iron Ring
3030 - Foreign Markets, Capitalist War, The Possibilities of Production
3131 - The Cost of Competition, Socialism and Syndicalism, Communism and Anarchism
3232 - Social Revolution, Confiscation or Compensation, Expropriating the Expropriators
3333 - The Problem of the Land, The Control of Credit
3434 - The Control of Industry, The New World, Agricultural Production
3535 - Intellectual Production, Mankind Remade
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