Parables II: An Essay

A brief preface states the purpose. Chapter 1 deals with the passion of Christ and its justification. Chapter 2 deals with perseverance in a corrupt world, adhering to the straight and narrow road. Chapter 3 deals with harmony and anger in three parables. The first parable deals with a scientist using his skill to harmonize man with nature. The second parable deals with an English scientist harmonizing his life with woman. The third parable deals with original sin and how to harmonize man to God and removing the curse of that sin. Chapter 4 deals with the savagery of man and how to work around it to the good of civilization. Chapter 5 covers the war of the sexes again, suggesting that seeking a wise mate is the best method of marital bliss rather than beauty, wealth, social status and the more mundane things. Chapter 6 deals with ways & means of effecting success in strife and war in three parables. The first shows that the best way is the easiest way, but that the easiest apparent way is not always the easiest actual way. The remaining two parables deal with the careers of Patton & Montgomery in WWII, and Grant & McClellan in the American Civil War on the ultimate purpose of war and effecting that purpose.