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The Book of Life: Mind and Body, Love and Society (Classic Reprint)
The Book of Life Mind and Body Love and Society - Classic Reprint Author:Upton Sinclair (Attempts to show what we know about life; to set the bounds of real truth as distinguished from phrases and self-deception.) — If I could, I would begin this book by telling you what Life is. But unfortunately I do not know what Life is. The only consolation I can find is in the fact that nobody else knows either. — We ask the churches, and they ... more »tell us that male and female created lie them, and put them in the Garden of Eden, and they would have been happy had not Satan tempted them. But then you ask, who made Satan, and the explanation grows vague. You ask, if God made Satan, and knew what Satan was going to do, is it not the same as if God did it himself? So this explanation of the origin of evil gets you no further than the Hindoo picture of the world resting on the back of a tortoise, and the tortoise on the head of a snake-and nothing said as to what the snake rests on.
Let us go to the scientist. I know a certain physiologist, perhaps the greatest in the world, and his eager fac
Table of Contents
Chapter I The Nature of Life ,3; Attempts to show what we know about life; to set the bounds of real truth as distinguished from phrases and self-deception; Chapter II The Nature of Faith 8; Attempts to show what we can prove by our reason, and what we know intuitively; what is implied in the process of thinking, and without which no thought could be; Chapter III The Use of Reason12; Attempts to show that in the field to which reason applies we are compelled to use it, and are justified in trusting it; Chapter IV The Origin of Morality17; Compares the ways of Nature with human morality, and tries to show how the latter came to be; Chapter V Nature and Man21; Attempts to show how man has taken control of Nature, and is carrying on her processes and improving upon them; Chapter VI Man the Rebel27; Shows the transition stage between instinct and reason, in which man finds himself, and how« less