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
1 00 - Introductory 12 min 2 01 - Nature of Life & Nature of Faith 24 min 3 02 - Use of Reason & Origin of Morality 24 min 4 03 - Nature and Man & Man the Rebel 30 min 5 04 - Making Our Morals & Virtues of Moderation 30 min 6 05 - The Choosing of Life & Myself and My Neighbor 32 min 7 06 - The Mind and the Body & The Mind of the Body 41 min 8 07 - Exploring the Subconscious & The Problem of Immortality 41 min 9 08 - The Evidence for Survival 29 min 10 09 - The Powers of the Mind & The Conduct of the Mind 34 min 11 10 - The Unity of the Body 27 min 12 11 - Experiments in Diet 21 min 13 12 - Errors in Diet 33 min 14 13 - Diet Standards 31 min 15 14 - Foods and Poisons 29 min 16 15 - More About Health & Work and Play 35 min 17 16 - The Fasting Cure & Breaking the Fast 33 min 18 17 - Diseases and Cures 45 min 19 18 - The Reality of Marriage & The Development of Marriage 33 min 20 19 - Sex and Young America & Sex and the Smart Set 38 min 21 20 - Sex & the Poor, Sex & Nature, and Love & Economics 30 min 22 21 - Marriage & Money, Love Versus Lust, Celibacy Versus Chastity 40 min 23 22 - The Defense of Love, Birth Control 33 min 24 23 - Early Marriage, The Marriage Club, Education for Marriage 33 min 25 24 - The Money Side of Marriage, The Defense of Monogamy, The Problem of Jealousy 36 min 26 25 - The Problem of Divorce, The Restriction of Divorce 20 min 27 26 - The Ego and the World, Competition and Co-operation 33 min 28 27 - Aristocracy & Democracy, Ruling Classes, The Process of Social Evolution 31 min 29 28 - Industrial Evolution, The Class Struggle, The Capitalist System 40 min 30 29 - The Capitalist Process, Hard Times, The Iron Ring 24 min 31 30 - Foreign Markets, Capitalist War, The Possibilities of Production 30 min 32 31 - The Cost of Competition, Socialism and Syndicalism, Communism and Anarchism 35 min 33 32 - Social Revolution, Confiscation or Compensation, Expropriating the Expropriators 33 min 34 33 - The Problem of the Land, The Control of Credit 29 min 35 34 - The Control of Industry, The New World, Agricultural Production 31 min 36 35 - Intellectual Production, Mankind Remade 31 min