William Graham Sumner Quote

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.


Collected Essays in Political and Social Science (ed. 1885)


It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if...

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if...

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if...

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if...