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 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 their essential and Vital bearings, the blade of his insight never stuck in the husk of a matter.

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