Equality (Bellamy)

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Equality by Edward Bellamy

[edit] Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I. A sharp cross-examiner
• Chapter II. Why the revolution did not come earlier
• Chapter III. I acquire a stake in the country
• Chapter IV. A twentieth-century bank parlor
• Chapter V. I experience a new sensation
• Chapter VI. Honi soit qui mal y pense
• Chapter VII. A string of surprises
• Chapter VIII. The greatest wonder yet-fashion dethroned
• Chapter IX. Something that had not changed
• Chapter X. A midnight plunge
• Chapter XI. Life the basis of the right of property
• Chapter XII. How inequality of wealth destroys liberty
• Chapter XIII. Private capital stolen from the social fund
• Chapter XIV. We look over my collection of harnesses
• Chapter XV. What we were coming to but for the revolution
• Chapter XVI. An excuse that condemned
• Chapter XVII. The revolution saves private property from monopoly
• Chapter XVIII. An echo of the past
• Chapter XIX. "Can a maid forget her ornaments?"
• Chapter XX. What the revolution did for women
• Chapter XXI. At the gymnasium
• Chapter XXII. Economic suicide of the profit system
• Chapter XXIII. "The parable of the water tank"
• Chapter XXIV. I am shown all the kingdoms of the Earth
• Chapter XXV. The strikers
• Chapter XXVI. Foreign commerce under profits; protection and free trade, or between the devil and the deep sea
• Chapter XXVII. Hostility of a system of vested interests to improvement
• Chapter XXVIII. How the profit system nullified the benefit of inventions
• Chapter XXIX. I receive an ovation
• Chapter XXX. What universal culture means
• Chapter XXXI. "Neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem"
• Chapter XXXII. Eritis sicut deus
• Chapter XXXIII. Several important matters overlooked
• Chapter XXXIV. What started the revolution
• Chapter XXXV. Why the revolution went slow at first but fast at last
• Chapter XXXVI. Theater-going in the twentieth century
• Chapter XXXVII. The transition period
• Chapter XXXVIII. The book of the blind

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.