The Modern Idolatry: An Analysis of Usury and the Pathology of Debt

Preface on Usury.

PART ONE:
DESTRUCTION AND SACRIFICE.

I. New Lamps for Old!
II. Actual and Potential Resources.
III. Sabotage and the Scarcity Complex.
IV. No Money, No Goods!
V. Economics--that pathology of debt".

PART TWO:
THE MECHANISM OF THE MODERN IDOLATRY.

VI. The Creation and Appropriation of Public Money.
VII. The Genesis of the Moneylender.
VIII. Heads I Win, Tails you lose!
IX. Gold, Notes, and Bank Deposits.
X. The Money Machine.
XI. The Mechanism of Money Creation.
XII. 'Reductio ad absurdum'.
XIII. The Circulation of Bank Deposits.
XIV. The Debt-Structure.
XV. Investments and Industrial "Surpluses".
XVI. Imperial Policy and its relation to Industrial "Surpluses" and Foreign "Trade".
XVII. Foreign "Investments".
XVIII. Interest due on Foreign Debt a Prime Incentive to War.
XIX. The Menace of the East.
XX. The Urge to Destruction.

PART THREE:
FREE MONEY.

XXI. Saving and Spending.
XXII. Price, Profits, and Usury.
XXIII. Free Money and the Abolidon of Debt.
XXIV. Plant and Land.
XXV. Sociologial Possibilities under Free Money.

PART FOUR:
OPPOSING AND ENDURING FORCES.

XXVI. The Bid for World Power.
XXVII. The League against Nations.
XXVIII. The Gold Idol in England.
XXIX. The American Banker.
XXX. A Plan of Action.
XXXI. Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair.
XXXII. Popular Opinion.
XXXIII. The Modern Idolatry.

Appendix
A. The Gold Standard in Action.
B. Bank Deposits.
C. Inflation and Deflation.