CONTENTS. Page[Chapter I—Definition]7[Chapter II—The Law by Moses]11[Chapter III—Usury and "The Stranger"]18[Chapter IV—David and Solomon]26[Chapter V—Denunciation of Jeremiah and Ezekiel]30[Chapter VI—Financial Reform by Nehemiah]36[Chapter VII—Teachings of the Master]42[Chapter VIII—Parables of the Talents and the Pounds]52[Chapter IX—Practice of the disciples]58[Chapter X—Church history]69[Chapter XI—Calvin's letter on usury]73[Chapter XII—Permanency of the prohibition]79[Chapter XIII—Our changed conditions]81[Chapter XIV—The American Revision]87[Chapter XV—Duty learned from two sources]93[Chapter XVI—Rights of man over things]97[Chapter XVII—Equal rights of men]102[Chapter XVIII—A false basal principle]108[Chapter XIX—The true ethical principle]115[Chapter XX—Wealth is barren]121[Chapter XXI—Wealth decays]132[Chapter XXII—The debt habit]138[Chapter XXIII—The borrower is servant to the lender]144[Chapter XXIV—Usury enslaves the borrower]146[Chapter XXV—Usury oppresses the poor]154[Chapter XXVI—Usury oppresses the poor—continued]160[Chapter XXVII—Usury oppresses the poor—continued]168[Chapter XXVIII—Usury oppresses the poor—concluded]174[Chapter XXIX—Usury centralizes wealth]180[Chapter XXX—Mammon dominates the nations]189[Chapter XXXI—Effect on character]206[Chapter XXXII—Ax at the root of the tree]219[Chapter XXXIII—Per contra; Christian Apologists]233[Chapter XXXIV—Per contra; Land Rentals]243[Chapter XXXV—Per contra; Political Economists]253[Chapter XXXVI—Usury in History]258[Chapter XXXVII—Francis Bacon]266[Chapter XXXVIII—Why this truth was neglected]272[Chapter XXXIX—Crushed truth will rise again]281[Index]293