The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition, Upton Sinclair [spiritual books to read .txt] 📗

third and fourth generations.

I get letters from the readers of my books; nearly always they are young people, so I feel like the father of a large family. I gather them now about my knee, and pronounce upon them a benediction in the ancient patriarchal style. Children and grandchildren of my hopes, for ages men suffered and fought, so that the world might be turned over to you. Now the day is coming, the glad, new day which blinds us with the shining of its wings; it is coming so swiftly that I am [315] afraid of it. I thought we should have more time to get ready for the taking over of the world! But the old managers of it went insane, they took to tearing each other's eyes out, and now they lie dead about us. So, whether we will or not, we have to take charge of the world; we have to decide what to do with it, even while we are doing it. Let us not fail, young comrades; let us not write on the scroll of history that mankind had to go through yet new generations of wars and tumults and enslavements, because the youth of the international revolution could not lift themselves above those ancient personal vices which wrecked the fair hopes of their fathers—bigotry and intolerance, vindictiveness and vanity, envy, hatred and malice and all uncharitableness! [317]

INDEX

Abbott, Lyman 175-191 Abbott, L.F. 189 Adams 214 Adventists 237 Amberley 52 Anglican Church 47-88 Appeal to Reason 144 Archer 133 Assyria 32 Atkinson 267 Austria 155 Aztecs 32 Babists 254 Babylonia 26, 32, 50 Baxter 183 Beilhardt 254 Berkman 288 Besant 250 Bible-students 246 Bismarck 153 Black Magic 253 Blavatsky 23, 256 Blougram 109 Bonzano 121, 126 Booth 298 Bootstrap-lifting 11, 266 Brougher 209 Brown 268 Buchanan 68, 159 Buckle 41 Burns 75 Cæsar 161 Cannon 143 Carlyle 163 Carnegie 177 Catholic Church 27, 105-157, 295 Catholic Encyclopedia 67Centrum 152 Charcot 258 Chatterton-Hill 220 Chinese 74 Christian Endeavor World 216 Christian Science 254-264 Churchman 101, 102 Clark 23 Clough 235 Columbus 115 Conway 127 Curates 71 Darwin 56 Day 205 Debs 289 Dixon 204, 205 Dowie 242 Durham 80 Eastman 140 Eddy 257, 261 Education 81 England 49, 73, 75 England, Church of 47-88 Episcopal Church 89-102 Eucharist 59 Ferrer 51, 133 Fish 65 Flint 78, 79 Fogazzaro 298 Foraker 143 Frederick 163 Galileo 51 Gallipoli 61 Garrison 167Gladstone 57, 58, 81 Goldman 287 Goode 59, 61 Green 63 Gurney 254 Hagen 219 Hale 213 Hammurabi 85 Hampton 181 Ha'nish 250 Hanna 122, 142, 153, 213 Harris 72 Harrison 304 Haywood 288 Hebrew 36, 173, 284, 285 Henry the Eighth 66, 67 Hill, Joe 219 Hill, Rev. J.W. 204 Holmes 276 Holy Rollers 242, 243 Hubbard 190 Huss 38, 41 Huxley 56, 58 Hyndman 256 Hyslop 223 Inquisition 39, 51 Ireland 43 Isaiah 287 Janet 258 Jastrow 32 Jehovah 35, 36 Jesuits 148 Jesus 74, 100, 101, 161,
172, 174, 175, 176, 197, 221,
258, 281, 282, 290, 291, 292 Jews 284, 286 Job 25, 26, 55 Joshua 37 Jowett 54 Jungle 190, 194, 197 Junker 152 Kaiser 164-166 Kant 303 Kemp 19 King Coal 137 Kingsley 34 Knights of Columbus 123 Koreshanity 248 La Follette 260 Landor 34 Lankester 306 Lea 39 Leeky 136 Leo XIII 119, 123 Ligouri 174 Li Hung Chang 75 London 276 Los Angeles 149, 150, 208, 209, 217 L.A. Examiner 149 L.A. Times 44, 151 Lourdes 258 Luther 161, 163 MacGill 42 Machen 273 Mallock 77 Malthus 77 Manning 118 Manu 285 Markham 302 Marx 71, 173 Massey 55 Mazdaznan 250 McCabe 148 McDonald 139 Mellen 185 Menace 135 Milton 199 Morality 308 More 85 Morgan 99, 101 Mormon 239, 240 Moses 36, 37 Nazarite 29 New Haven 180, 181 New Thought 264 N.Y. Evening Post 223 N.Y. Sun 193 N.Y. Times 211 Nichols 270 Noel 83, 286 Northcliffe 72 Numerology 271 Oahspe 248 O'Connell 120 Opium 74 Outlook 175-198 Paine 87 Paley 87 Pasadena 150, 208, 276 Patent Medicine 214 Patterson 139 Paul 56, 161, 207 Peabody 99 Peters 204 Phelan 119 Pillsbury 167 Pius IX 116 Plowman 64 Pope 67, 121, 143 Positivists 304 Post 216 Potter 98 Prescott 32 Preston 127 Protestant 201 Prussia 153, 163 Quakers 177 Quay 212 Quigley 129 Rauschenbusch 163, 283 Rawson 272Reformation 163, 201 Religion 16, 17 Rig-Veda 30 Robinson 228 Rockefeller 138, 177, 190, 192, 211 Roosevelt 142 Russell, C.E. 95, 181 Russell, G. 82 Russell, Pastor 247 Ryan 105 Sacred Heart 113 Salpetriere 238 Salvation Army 298 Sanday 78 Segur 117 Shaftesbury 74, 82 Shakers 244, 245 Shelley 87, 183 Siam 34 Sinn Fein 295 Smith, Gipsy 217 Smith, Goldwin 223 Soap Box 290 Socialist Movement 311 Spain 131 Spiritualism 275 Stalker 78 Sterling 45 Sunday 207, 210 Swinburne 103 Syracuse 205 Tablet 157 Tacitus 170 Taft 142-144 Tammany 93, 143 Thackery 68, 212 Theosophists 254, 255 Thirty-nine Articles 54 Tingley 256 Torrey 203 Tractarian 55 Trinity 94 Trinity Corporation 95 Trowbridge 29 Vedder 76 Voltaire 53 Waddell 279 Wagner 219 Wall Street 181 Wanamaker 203 Ward 55 Wattles 268 Wesley 170 Westcott 79 White, A.D. 52 White, Bouck 192 Wilberforce 56, 88 William 63 Wilson 169, 186 Yogi 255 York 76