William Graham Sumner
Earth-Hunger and Other Essays
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066066840
Table of Contents
The Teacher's Unconscious Success
The Scientific Attitude of Mind
First Steps Toward a Millennium [1888]
Who Is Free? Is It the Savage?
Who Is Free? Is It the Civilized Man?
Who Is Free? Is It the Millionaire?
Some Points in the New Social Creed
An Examination of a Noble Sentiment
Definitions of Democracy and Plutocracy
Conflict of Plutocracy and Democracy
Separation of State and Market
The Power and Beneficence of Capital [1899]
What Our Boys are Reading [1880]
PREFACE
During the three years now elapsed since the publication of "War and Other Essays," it has become increasingly clear to the publishers and to the editor of that collection that their original enterprise should be followed up by another volume or two. There remain a number of Professor Sumner's shorter productions which have never been printed or which have been published in obscure, scattered, or inaccessible places.
I feel this need of extending our enterprise the more strongly because I believe that a great deal of Sumner's writing has not grown old, and is not destined to grow old. It has been impressed upon me, as I have become more familiar with his essays of twenty and thirty years ago, that the issues which he treated, as he treated them, are always and everywhere with us. They are not of one time or one place. They are always with us because they are part of what Sumner so often calls "life here on earth." It was given to him to seize upon social issues in