What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

William Graham Sumner, American academic at the Yale University (1840-1910)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Introduction

- On A New Philosophy - That Poverty Is The Best Policy

- That A Free Man Is A Sovereign, But That A Sovereign Cannot Take Tips

- That It Is Not Wicked To Be Rich - Nay, Even, That It Is Not Wicked To Be Richer Than One's Neighbor

- On The Reasons Why Man Is Not Altogether A Brute

- That We Must Have Few Men, If We Want Strong Men

- That He Who Would Be Well Taken Care Of Must Take Care Of Himself

- Concerning Some Old Foes Under New Faces

- On The Value, As A Sociological Principle, Of The Rule To Mind One's Own Business

- On The Case Of A Certain Man Who Is Never Thought Of

- The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered

- Wherefore We Should Love One Another