William Graham Sumner, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1954 - 758 pages |
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Page 262
... present state of the science of sociology the man who has studied it at all is very sure to feel great self - distrust in trying to talk about it . The most that one of us can do at the present time is to appreciate the promise which ...
... present state of the science of sociology the man who has studied it at all is very sure to feel great self - distrust in trying to talk about it . The most that one of us can do at the present time is to appreciate the promise which ...
Page 266
... present . " The law of population combined with the law of diminishing returns constitutes the great underlying condition of society . Progress is a word which has no meaning save in view of the laws of population and the diminishing ...
... present . " The law of population combined with the law of diminishing returns constitutes the great underlying condition of society . Progress is a word which has no meaning save in view of the laws of population and the diminishing ...
Page 271
... present in the struggle for existence . The aleatory element has always been the connecting link between the struggle for existence and religion . Here again the dichotomy between the present and primitive " life . If luck is present in ...
... present in the struggle for existence . The aleatory element has always been the connecting link between the struggle for existence and religion . Here again the dichotomy between the present and primitive " life . If luck is present in ...
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adjustment ALLAN NEVINS American became capital Challenge of Facts civil liberty COCHRANE AND MILLER competition conception cooperation currency demands democracy Democrats doctrine Earth Hunger economic element Essays ethical evolution experience farmers federal fittest folkways forces Forgotten gold Grange greenbacks HENRY STEELE COMMANGER human Ibid individual industrial institutions interests issue Knights of Labor laissez-faire land legislation life-conditions living LOUIS HACKER marriage masses means middle class monandry monopoly moral MORRISON and HENRY nation natural law organization party plutocracy political Populists poverty Powderly produce Pullman strike railroads regulation result ROBERT HUNTER SAMUEL ELIOT MORRISON Science of Society selection self-maintenance Senate silver social Social Darwinism Sociology strike struggle for existence SUMNER and KELLER survival taboo TARBELL tariff THOMAS COCHRAN tion Union VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON wages wealth William Graham Sumner workers York