Calamities influence every moment of our existence. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. This volume attempts to account for the effects these calamities exert on the mental processes, behavior, social organization, and cultural life of the population involved.

Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; One: The Influence of Calamities Upon our Mind; 1: How Calamities Influence Our Affective and Emotional Life; Two: How Calamities Affect our Cognitive Processes, Desires and Volitions; Two: The Influence of Calamities Upon Our Behavior and Vital Processes; Three: How Famine Influences Our Behavior; Four: How Pestilence, War, and Revolution Influence Our Behavior; Five: How Calamities Influence The Vital Processes-Death, Birth, and Marriage Rates and Social Selection; Three: The Influence of Calamities Upon Social Mobility and Organization; Six: Migration, Mobility, and Disruption of Social Institutions; Seven: The Influence of Calamities Upon Political, Economic, and Social Organization; Eight: The Influence of Calamities Upon the Economic Standard of Living; Four: The Influence of Calamities Upon Sociocultural Life; Nine: Two General Effects of Calamities Upon Sociocultural Life; Ten: How Calamities Affect the Religious and Ethical Life of Society; Eleven: Calamities and Ethico-Religious Progress; Twelve: Sinners and Saints in Calamity; Thirteen: The Influence of Calamities Upon Science and Technology; Fourteen: Influence of Calamities Upon The Fine Arts; Fifteen: Dynamics of Ideologies in Calamity; Five: Causes and Remedies of Calamities; Sixteen: Causes of Calamities; Seventeen: The Way Out of Calamities; Eighteen: A Glance Into The Future