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Title: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Author: William Graham Sumner

Release Date: June 16, 2006 [EBook #18603]

Language: English

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WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES
OWE TO EACH OTHER

By
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

First published by Harper & Brothers, 1883

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
FOREWORD 5

INTRODUCTION 7

I. ON A NEW PHILOSOPHY: THAT POVERTY IS THE BEST POLICY 13

II. THAT A FREE MAN IS A SOVEREIGN, BUT THAT A SOVEREIGN
CANNOT TAKE "TIPS" 25

III. THAT IT IS NOT WICKED TO BE RICH: NAY, EVEN, THAT IT
IS NOT WICKED TO BE RICHER THAN ONE