The Challenge of Facts: And Other EssaysYale University Press, 1914 - 450 páginas |
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The Challenge of Facts, and Other Essays William Graham Sumner,Albert Galloway Keller Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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abuses advance advantage ALBERT GALLOWAY KELLER American anarchistic aristocracy become bourgeoisie capital century civil liberty classes colonial concentration of wealth Constitution demand democracy democratic doctrine dogmas duty economic election employer equal evil existence fact force give human important increase independent individual industrial institutions interests invented labor land legislation limited living mass matter means ment method modern monogamy moral nation nature never opinion organization party persons philosophy political economy popular population possible poverty present principles produced proletariat proposition protectionism question race railroads reform regard representative democracy republican responsibility secure seems sense sentiment sentimental philosophy serfdom slavery social philosophy social power socialistic society sociology struggle Sumner things tion to-day town traditions true truth vote whole WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Yale
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Página 419 - They do not perceive that here "the strong" and "the weak" are terms which admit of no definition unless they are made equivalent to the industrious and the idle, the frugal and the extravagant. They do not perceive, furthermore, that if we do not like the survival of the fittest, we have only one possible alternative, and that is the survival of the unfittest. The former is the law of civilization; the latter is the law of anticivilization.
Página 23 - Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members.
Página 436 - The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of amplest influence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Great in council and great in war, Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Página 88 - The millionaires are a product of natural selection, acting on the whole body of men to pick out those who can meet the requirement of certain work to be done.
Página 34 - ... more to be said. If not, then the right must be set up in a new form. It is now not a right to work, nor even a right to wages, but a right to a certain rate of wages, and we have simply returned to the old doctrine of spoliation again. It is immaterial whether the demand for wages be addressed to an individual capitalist or to a civil body, for the latter can give no wages which it does not collect by taxes out of the capital of those who have labored and saved. Another application is in the...
Página 35 - The truth is that the social order is fixed by laws of nature precisely analogous to those of the physical order. The most that man can do ... by his ignorance and conceit (is) to mar the operation of the social laws...
Página 436 - And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
Página 25 - Under this changed order of things the inequalities are not done away with. Nature still grants her rewards of having and enjoying, according to our being and doing, but it is now the man of the highest training and not the man of the heaviest fist who gains the highest reward. It is impossible that the man with capital and the man without capital should be equal. To affirm that they are equal would be to say that a man who has no tool can get as much food out of the ground as the man who has a spade...
Página 5 - Economy/ but I believe that my conceptions of capital, labor, money, and trade, were all formed by those books which I read in my boyhood. In college the interest was turned rather on the political than on the economic element. It seemed to me then, however, that the war, with the paper money and the high taxation...
Página 24 - What civil libertv does is to turn the competition of man with man from violence and brute force into an industrial competition under which men vie with one another for the acquisition of material goods by industry, energy, skill, frugality, prudence, temperance, and other industrial virtues. Under this changed order of things the inequalities are not done away with. Nature still grants her rewards of having and enjoying, according to our being and doing, but it is now the man of the highest training...