Published 12 June 1928; copies deposited at Library of Congress 2 July 1928.
Contents
The way of all flesh -- Single-track minds -- The wages of sin --The tie that binds -- I feel myself slipping -- On truth in biography -- On curiosity -- The ephemeral egotist -- The reckless word -- Five aces and the Holy Ghost -- Tom Paine's "rebellion" -- An apology for dogma -- The absolute and the absurd -- The point of view -- Critics pure--and simple -- "If I were God" -- Left-handed skeptics -- Napoleon's destiny -- Voltaire and Jesus --Wonders of the future -- Intelligence: an attitude -- The bad intellectuals --"Sensationalism" -- The sense of sin -- A big subject -- A message to the young -- The philosophers -- Fool's proof -- Shaw and free speech -- Facts: with or without ideas -- Unnecessary God -- Moral paupers -- The stupid man -- Timid virtues -- The helping mind -- Man and his ancestry -- Ideal communities -- The love of power -- The fruits of war -- Hope: rational and irrational -- The love of excellence.
