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2012 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was a sociologist at Yale University, a historian of American banking, and great expositor of classical liberalism. "What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other" was first published in 1883, and it asks a crucially important question: does any class or interest group have the duty and burden o...

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A History of American Currency - With Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers ...

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Excerpt from Robert Morris IN this book I have reduced into a current narrative the most essential information about the life of Robert Morris which is contained in The Financier and the Finances of the. 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 technolog...

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Excerpt from Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Organization and Classes, Mortuary Usages, Oaths, Taboos, Ethies, Esthetics, and Democracy. The first four of these are written. I may be able to publish them soon, separately. My next task is to finish the sociology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from Protectionism: The -Ism Which Teaches That Waste Makes Wealth During 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 so lution, but both are in 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 repeal of those taxes whic...

Excerpt from The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays Perhaps Sumner would have made changes in these unpublished essays before they were allowed to fill the printed page, he may have had some conviction, in his scrupulous self-criticism, as to their state of incomplete ness. But I have no apology for publishing them. They can stand for themselves. Now that the emending hand is still, there is no longer any hope of alteration except of inessen...

Excerpt from Earth-Hunger and Other Essays 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 p...

Excerpt from Andrew Jackson Strictly belong to it. The cancelled passages were especially important in Chapters VIII., IX., and X. Of the first edition. The great number of excellent works which have been added to the literature of American history within sixteen years make these passages less necessary. On the whole, therefore, I have curtailed the history and extended the biography. W. G. Sumner. Yale university, October, 1898. About the P...

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...

Excerpt from War, and Other Essays Copyright, 1885, by Henry Holt Company Copyright, 1883, 1887, by Harper Brothers Copyright, 1889, 1894, 1896, 1909, by The Forum Copyright, 1896, by D. Appleton 8: Company Copyright, 1899, by Yale Law Journal Copyright, 1901. By The International Monthly Copyright, 1909, by The Yale Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from What Social Classes, Owe to Each Other We are told every day that great social problems stand before us and demand a solution, and we are assailed by oracles, threats, and warnings in reference to those problems. There is a school of writers who are playing quite a role as the heralds of the coming duty and the coming woe. They assume to speak for a large, but vague and undefined, constituency, who set the task, exact a fulfilmen...