19th Century · English
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
chapters
12 chapters- 01What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, Introduction.prose
- 02I.: On a New Philosphy: That Poverty Is the Best Policy.prose
- 03II.: That a Free Man Is a Sovereign, but That a Sovereign Cannot Take “Tips.”prose
- 04III.: That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich; Nay, Even, That It Is Not Wicked to Be Richer Than One's Neighbor.prose
- 05IV.: On the Reasons Why Man Is Not Altogether a Brute.prose
- 06V.: That We Must Have Few Men, If We Want Strong Men.prose
- 07VI.: That He Who Would Be Well Taken Care of Must Take Care of Himself.prose
- 08VII.: Concerning Some Old Foes Under New Faces.prose
- 09VIII.: On the Value, as a Sociological Principle, of the Rule to Mind One’s Own Business.prose
- 10IX.: On the Case of a Certain Man Who Is Never Thought of.prose
- 11X.: The Case of the Forgotten Man Farther Considered.prose
- 12XI.: Wherefore We Should Love One Another.prose