The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays

The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays  (1914)  by William Graham Sumner

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The third of four anthologies of essays on economics, liberty, and sociology by Sumner, edited by Albert Galloway Keller. Page scans are available.

• Preface
• Sketch of William Graham Sumner
• The Challenge of Facts
• Reply to a Socialist
• What Makes the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer?
• The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic Justification
• Industrial War
• A Parable
• The Demand for Men
• The Significance of the Demand for Men
• What the "Social Question" Is
• What Emancipates
• Power and Progress
• Consequences of Increased Social Power
• What is the "Proletariat"?
• Who Win by Progress?
• Federal Legislation on Railroads
• Legislation by Clamor
• The Shifting of Responsibility
• The State as an "Ethical Person"
• The New Social Issue
• Speculative Legislation
• Republican Government
• Democracy and Responsible Government
• Advancing Social and Political Organization in the United States
• Memorial Day Address
• For President?
• Foreword to "Lynch-Law"
• Foreword to "The Anthracite Coal Industry"
• Introductory Lecture to Courses in Political and Social Science
• Sociology as a College Subject
• The Predicament of Sociological Study
• Memorial Addresses
  • By Otto T. Bannard
  • By Henry de Forest Baldwin
  • By Albert Galloway Keller

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.