What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

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William Graham Sumner

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Excerpt from The Forgotten Man and Other Essays Uring the last fifteen years we have had two great questions to discuss: the restoration of the currency and civil-service reform. Neither of these questions has yet reached a satisfactory solution, but both are on the way toward such a result. The next great effort to strip off the evils entailed on us by the Civil War will consist in the re peal of those taxes which one man was enabled to levy on another, under cover of the taxes which the government had to lay to carry on the war. I have taken my share in the discussion of the first two questions, and I expect to take my share in the discussion of the third. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"What Social Classes Owe to Each Other," written by William Graham Sumner, is a classic gem promoting the concept of limited government. Sumner talks about the "Forgotten Man" in context to the socio-political and economic of a state, defining the differences between the "weak," the "poor" and the "burden" and how humanitarians, reformers and philanthropists all seek to support the above. "What Social Classes Owe Each Other" promotes the principles of democracy and voluntary charity. With solid reasoning  and logical explanation, Sumner profoundly defeats the Marxist idea of forced redistribution of wealth. Sumner's rhetoric is fertile ground for effective debate, as it rarely uses economic theory or supply/demand curves (which weren't around when he wrote). Every politician should be required to read this book before taking office. Indeed, the philosophy of Sumner, who was a professor at Yale, has surfaced in the rhetoric of many a politician. Sumner's caustic pen and penetrating analysis make "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other" a truly excellent book. No other work so clearly destroys the foundations of socialism in so few pages.

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Whatever you may think of William Graham Sumner's arguments, he expresses classical Social Darwinist theory quite eloquently. The title of this book, "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other," is answered by the author, essentially, as: "nothing." At one point in his body of work, he noted that life is like "Root, hog, or die." You have to work hard to make it or. . . . A classic line from this work illustrates the logic (Page 17): "certain ills belong to the hardships of human life. They are natural. They are part of the struggle with Nature for existence. We cannot blame our fellow-men for our share of these. My neighbor and I are struggling to free ourselves from these ills. The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in his struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me." If you have value as a person, you will "make it." And those who cannot make it have no claim on the bounty that your success has created. It is a perspective that can be associated with the phrase "Nature, red in tooth and claw." A battle, a struggle for survival between individuals. Most biologists of behavior today would reject this mano e mano perspective, noting that altruism and cooperation are a considerable part of human nature—as is conflict. In his day, though, Sumner was a major figure, along with Herbert Spencer and others, in the Social Darwinist movement.

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What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution; Volume 1

Soziale Pflichten, Oder Was Die Klassen Der Gesellschaft Einander Schuldig Sind (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)

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Andrew Jackson As a Public Man (American statesmen)

The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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What Social Classes Owe To Each Other

What Social Classes Owe To Each Other