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With no copyright notice, the 1951 intro falls under Rule 5, and istherefore public domain.

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES
OWE TO EACH OTHER

William Graham Sumner

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Foreword	5
	Introduction	6
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's Neighbor	38
IV.	On the Reasons Why Man Is Not Altogether a Brute	51
V.	That We Must Have Few Men, if We Want Strong Men	63
VI.	That He Who Would be Well Taken Care of Must Take Care of Himself	71
VII.	Concerning Some Old Foes under New Faces	88
VIII.	On the Value, as a Sociological Principle, of the Rule To Mind One's Own Business	97
IX.	On the Case of a Certain Man Who is Never Thought of	107
X.	The Case of the Forgotten Man Farther Considered	116
XI.	Wherefore We Should Love One Another	132

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