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Toyohiko Kagawa · 1888 – 1960

Love, the Law of Life

1924 · trans. J. Fullerton Gressitt (Winston, 1929) · translated from the Japanese · scanned edition

29pages
4 h 32 minreading time
18passages linked to Scripture
21links to verses
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Contents

  1. AUTHOR’S NOTE1
  2. PROLOGUE LOVE IS MY ALL IN ALL1
  3. SOME MISCONCEPTIONS OF LOVE1
  4. THE PERIOD OF THE FEEBLE EMERGENCE OF CONSCIENCE1
  5. MUTUAL AID IN THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE1
  6. MUTUAL AID IN THE ANT WORLD2
  7. LOVE GOES BEYOND UNREASONED IMPULSE2
  8. THE STARTING POINT FOR THE NEW LOVE2
  9. LOVE IS CREATION2
  10. DISSATISFACTION WITH THE MARXIANS2
  11. THE LOVE OF THE CROSS2
  12. Wuy SINNERS ARE FORGIVEN2
  13. LOVE AS NEW CREATIVE ACTIVITY2
  14. THE CONDITIONS FOR CREATING A NEW COSMOS2
  15. LOVE Is EFFORT AND EXPRESSION3
  16. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE AND THE MERCY OF GOD3
  17. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF LOVE IN MODERN TIMES3
  18. WE Do Not LOVE Gop3
  19. THE EVOLUTION OF MOTHER LOVE IN THE HIGHER ANIMALS3
  20. DEPTH OF THE THEORY OF MUTUAL AID3
  21. THE DEEP Cosmic LOVE AND ITS EXQUISITE PROTECTION3
  22. THE BURIED ROOTS OF Cosmic LOVE3
  23. GREAT IMPULSES FROM THE UNSEEN COSMOS3
  24. PHYSICAL AND PsycHIc LOVE3
  25. THE LEAP UPWARD TO PSYCHIC LOVE4
  26. FALLING FROM. THE PLANE OF PSYCHIC LOVE4
  27. LOVE BASED UPON FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE4
  28. Gop’s PowER IS FREELY POURED UPON INSIGNIFICANT SINNERS4
  29. A SMALL SACRIFICE ACCOMPLISHES A GREAT WORK _4
  30. Gop CREATES NOTHING USELESS4
  31. THE ESSENCE OF THE HIGHEST HUMAN ART— THE ART OF LIFE4
  32. RELIGION Is NoT WEAK SELF-SATISFACTION4
  33. LOVE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH5
  34. THE TENDENCY TO TREAT SEXUAL DESIRE FROM THE RELIGIOUS STANDPOINT5
  35. JESUS AND THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL DESIRE5
  36. SEXUAL DESIRE, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE5
  37. THE GERM OF CONSCIENCE AND SEXUAL DESIRE5
  38. THE PROBLEM OF PLANT SEX5
  39. MARRIED LIFE AND ECONOMIC PRESSURE6
  40. THE MEANING AND THE METHOD OF THE LIFE OF STOICISM6
  41. MonoGaAmous LOVE6
  42. THE THEORY OF POLYGAMY6
  43. THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE MEIJI ERA6
  44. THE EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF DIVORCES IN THE UNITED STATES6
  45. Monocamy AND THE PERFECTING OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER7
  46. LOVE AND PERSONALITY7
  47. MOonoGAMY IS ETERNALLY TRUE7
  48. CHAPTER VI LOVE AND MARRIAGE7
  49. MAN’S DEGENERACY AND ADULTEROUS MARRIAGES7
  50. THE REALM OF LOVE REFINEMENT7
  51. THE DISCOVERY OF “ YouU’’!—THE OTHER PERSON— AND MARRIAGE AS CREATION7
  52. THE WARMTH AND ENDURANCE OF PASSIONATE LOVE7
  53. THE UNIFICATIVE EFFORT TOWARD A HIGHER PERFECTION8
  54. Gop ALONE CAN PERFECT TRUE LOVE8
  55. A BLUSH-PROVOKING AFFAIR8
  56. THE ETHICS OF LOVE RIDICULED8
  57. ToLstToy’s ATTACK UPON THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL ORGANISM8
  58. LOVE TRANSCENDS THE INDIVIDUAL8
  59. THE ERRORS OF THE ETHICAL THEORIES8
  60. PROBLEMS UNSOLVABLE BY THE SOCIALISTIC ETHICS9
  61. FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FIXED MORAL STANDARDS9
  62. LIFE’S ULTIMATE AIM AND THE BUDDING OF LOVE9
  63. LOVE IS THE MOTIVE POWER OF LIFE aia:9
  64. (B) LOVE VIEWED AS MOTIVE LOVE ORIGINATES AS AN ORGANISM9
  65. IN LOVE THERE IS UNFAILING EFFICACY9
  66. LOVE IS THE FUEL OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM9
  67. ELOQUENCE, RHETORIC, AND LOVE10
  68. PROPHECY, SECRET LORE, WISDOM, FAITH, LOVE10
  69. THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF CHARITABLE WORK WITHouT LOVE10
  70. LOVELESS MARTYRDOM IS UNAVAILING EFFORT10
  71. THE Most BARBAROUS OF HUMAN SACRIFICES10
  72. DRUMMOND’S ANALYSIS OF LOVE10
  73. LOVE AND TOLERANCE10
  74. THE NARROW SPIRIT AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS11
  75. LOVE AND JEALOUSY11
  76. LOVE, PRIDE, AND COURTESY11
  77. THE DISSECTION OF THE CELLS OF LOVE11
  78. THE FOURFOLD SYSTEM OF LOVE11
  79. THE ETERNALITY OF LOVE11
  80. CHAPTER X LOVE AND LAW11
  81. THE IMPOSITION OF AUTHORITY AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF LAW11
  82. TOWARD A SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL AFFINITY12
  83. ON TOWARD THE WORLD OF MORAL AFFINITY12
  84. ARE PRISONS REALLY NECESSARY?12
  85. SAVE RATHER THAN PUNISH12
  86. WHat MAN CAN PUNISH HIS BROTHER?12
  87. LAWS FOR INCREASING SOCIAL EFFICIENCY12
  88. INTERNATIONAL ABOLITION OF ARMAMENTS13
  89. ON TOWARD THE FREE SOCIETY OF MORAL AFFINITY13
  90. WHAT WILL BECOME OF PARLIAMENTS?13
  91. THE PESSIMISM OF PRINCE ARJUNA13
  92. THE UTTERANCES OF VIOLENT MILITARISTS13
  93. INSANITY AND WAR13
  94. WAR WASTES THE INNER LIFE13
  95. WarR OccuRS WHERE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IS LACKING13
  96. THE INSULATION OF ETHICAL LIFE FROM ECONOMIC LIFE13
  97. STRIFE IS AN OBSTACLE TO GROWTH13
  98. GROWTH IS ETERNAL; WAR IS TEMPORARY14
  99. THE EFFORT TO REPLACE VIOLENCE BY LOVE14
  100. THE VIEW THAT VIOLENCE POSSESSES EDUCATIONAL VALUE14
  101. IN A GENUINE SOCIETY VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION Do Not EXIst14
  102. JESUS’ TEACHING OF NON-RESISTANCE14
  103. VIOLENCE Is ITS OWN DESTRUCTION14
  104. THE PERIOD OF THE ‘‘PTOLEMAIC”’ ECONOMICS14
  105. WHAT Is MONEY?14
  106. SOCIAL CAPITAL AND SOCIAL ENERGY14
  107. BLIND ECONOMICS AND SEEING ECONOMICS14
  108. LOVE PRODUCES, CREATES14
  109. WHEREIN ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMICS?15
  110. THE ORIGIN OF VALUE15
  111. ABSOLUTE VALUE AND RELATIVE VALUE15
  112. WITHOUT VARIATION THERE IS No EVOLUTION15
  113. THE STANDARD OF EVOLUTION IN VALUE15
  114. THE APPARATUS WHICH ENABLES RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL VARIATION15
  115. THE DISUNION OF RELATIVE VALUES15
  116. VALUES WHICH ARISE FROM DETACHED VARIATION16
  117. THE ECONOMICS OF DETACHED GROWTH VALUE16
  118. THE ECONOMICS WHICH EMPHASIZES BLIND CAPACITY FOR GROWTH16
  119. THE EMERGENCE OF SENSE VALUES16
  120. THE ECONOMICS OF SIGHT16
  121. THE ECONOMICS OF COLOR16
  122. THE ECONOMICS OF TASTE16
  123. THE ECONOMICS OF HEARING16
  124. THE ECONOMICS OF SMELL AND OF TOUCH16
  125. THE GENESIS OF PsycHIC VALUES16
  126. THE ECONOMICS OF BEAUTY17
  127. THE ECONOMICS OF THE WILL17
  128. ECONOMIC VALUES AND ETHICAL VALUES17
  129. THE ECONOMICS OF PARTIAL RELIGIOUS VALUES17
  130. THE UNION OF THE ECONOMICS OF THE COMPLETE LIFE AND COMPLETE ECONOMIC LIVING17
  131. ECONOMICS AND FAITH17
  132. LOVE IS CLOTHED IN MATERIAL GARMENTS17
  133. Economics Is TRANSMUTED BY THE CHEMISTRY OF LOVE17
  134. LOVE IS THE SUPREME ECONOMICS17
  135. CHAPTER XIV LOVE AND LABOR17
  136. THE COURSE OF EMERGENCE OF LABOR VALUE18
  137. SOCIETY’S DISEASE OF LABOR EVASION18
  138. REVOLUTION THROUGH LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY OUT18
  139. LOVE AND SOCIALISM18
  140. SociETY Is LOVE EXPRESSED18
  141. CHAPTER XV LOVE AND SOCIETY18
  142. SOCIETY POSSESSES THE TOTALITY OF PERSONALITY18
  143. A SOCIETY BASED UPON PHYSICAL INSTINCTS18
  144. THE EMERGENCE OF PSYCHICAL SOCIETY19
  145. THE APPEARANCE OF CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY19
  146. THE SUPPOSEDLY CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY19
  147. AN ETHICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED UPON LOVE19
  148. THE SOCIETY OF LOVE, WITHOUT CONQUEST OR RULING POWER19
  149. CHAPTER XVI LOVE AND MY NEIGHBOR19
  150. THE SPECULATIVE GREED OF CAPITALISM IN SOLID FORM—THE MODERN CITY19
  151. BARNETT AND TOYNBEE19
  152. CHARACTER BANKRUPTS WHO BARK FOR SHOWS19
  153. DISPOSITION OF THE DEFORMED AND DISABLED20
  154. NEIGHBORHOOD MOVEMENTS DEMAND SACRIFICES;20
  155. KINDNESS TO NEIGHBORS20
  156. NEIGHBORHOOD WORK WITHOUT REPORTS20
  157. WOMEN ARE SUITED TO NEIGHBORHOOD WORK20
  158. EDUCATION AND HEALTH20
  159. THE DIFFICULTY OF RAISING CHILDREN IN THE SLUMS20
  160. CHILDREN GROWING UP PREDISPOSED TO ILLNESS20
  161. GIVE THE CHILDREN RESTFUL SLEEP, HEALTH, AND COMFORT20
  162. THE RELATION OF NUTRITION TO CHILD TRAINING21
  163. THE INFLUENCE OF NUTRITION UPON STUDIES21
  164. TESTS OF FEELING AND WILL21
  165. SOUL SCARS AND SOUL HYGIENE21
  166. ART OF TEACHING21
  167. SHUN THE LADLE-AND-RULER EDUCATION21
  168. THE NATURAL DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINES21
  169. SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH EDUCATION22
  170. EDUCATION WHICH IS TRULY CREATIVE22
  171. THE ESSENCE OF EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION IS IN THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN NATURE22
  172. PROJECT FOR THE ADVANCE OF HUMANITY22
  173. THE TEACHER IS PERPETUALLY THE ENCOURAGER OF GROWTH22
  174. WHERE THERE IS No LIFE THERE Is No ArT22
  175. BASEDOW’S DISEASE IN THE ARTS22
  176. MORALITY AS THE GLORIOUS ART23
  177. LiMPID LIFE IS INTRINSICALLY A JOY23
  178. SCHOPENHAUER’S VIEW OF ART23
  179. ArT IS THE ADORATION OF SALVATION23
  180. FROM THE PARTIAL SENSE ARTS TO THE IDEAL ARTS23
  181. THE VALUE OF “ART FOR ART’S SAKR”’23
  182. THE ORIGIN OF BEAUTY23
  183. LIFE Is INTRINSICALLY BEAUTIFUL23
  184. BEAUTY AND LOVE23
  185. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION24
  186. Two PHYSICAL REALMS24
  187. NECESSITY AND PURPOSE24
  188. THERE IS No NECcEssiIry APART FROM PURPOSE24
  189. SCIENCE VIEWED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF RELATIVITY24
  190. DEDUCTION AND INDUCTION AS CONTENT OF LIFE24
  191. THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND THE EMERGENCE OF SCIENCE24
  192. SCIENCE SEEN AS DRAMA24
  193. THE DRAMA OF THE INANIMATE24
  194. SCIENCE AS THE EXTENSION OF MAN’S SOUL25
  195. SCIENCE REVEALS COSMIC LOVE25
  196. SCIENCE VIEWED AS RELIGION25
  197. THE STARTING POINT OF THE NEW SCIENCE25
  198. LOVE DYNAMIC WITHIN25
  199. DEFINITION OF THE ESSENCE OF LOVE25
  200. MORALITY IN EUROPE BEFORE THE COMING OF JESUS25
  201. THE RHYTHMIC REBIRTH OF THE GOSPEL OF LOVE25
  202. THE EMERGENCE OF RECOGNITION THROUGH LOVE25
  203. THINKERS WHO FAILED TO COMPREHEND LOVE26
  204. TOLSTOY’S PARADOX26
  205. KANT’S EPISTEMOLOGY AND RECOGNITION THROUGH LOVE26
  206. No CLUE TO ABSOLUTE RECOGNITION EXISTS EXCEPT THE INNER SELF26
  207. CosMIc STRUCTURE VIEWED FROM MAN’S INNER STRUCTURE26
  208. WIspoM IS THE INNER SECRETION OF LIFE26
  209. RECOGNITION OF THE GOD OF LIFE26
  210. Gop AS LOVE26
  211. LOVE ALONE RECOGNIZES26
  212. TRACING THE GROWTH OF FATALISM27
  213. THE FATALISM ARISING FROM NATURE’S OPPRESSION27
  214. THE LIFE OF TRANSMIGRATION27
  215. SOCIAL RESISTANCE TO THE OPPRESSION OF NATURE27
  216. MaAn’s NEw MOopE oF LIFE APART FROM NATURE27
  217. THE FEARFUL FATE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION27
  218. FROM EXTERNAL TO INTERNAL FATE27
  219. TOWARD THE REALM OF SELF-DETERMINISM27
  220. LOVE AND COURAGE27
  221. LOVE DETERMINES My ALL27
  222. CHAPTER XXII LOVE AND GOD27
  223. THE FAITH OF EVOLUTION28
  224. EVOLUTION AS MIRACLE28
  225. THE SECRET OF EVOLUTION28
  226. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AS OBJECT OF FAITH28
  227. THE SOURCE OF THE IDEA OF PROGRESS28
  228. Gop WITHOUT AND GOD WITHIN28
  229. GOODNESS AND CONSCIENCE IN THE BUD28
  230. EVOLUTION SEEN AS ACCUMULATION OF THE GOOD28
  231. GOD THE FORCE IN INNER EVOLUTION28
  232. CONSCIENCE THE SUMMIT OF EVOLUTION28
  233. THE SELF AS OUTLET FOR GOODNESS AND LOVE29
  234. LOVE AS REVELATION29
  235. EPILOGUE29
  236. Love Is My Hoty or Ho.iss29
  237. ETERNAL LOVE, FLOW FORTH29
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