War and Other Essays

by William Graham Sumner

WAR AND OTHER
ESSAYS

BY

William Graham Sumner

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION
BY

Albert Galloway Keller

NEW HAVEN; YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXIX

copyright, 1911,

by yale university press

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FIRST PRINTED, OCTOBER, 1911
SECOND PRINTING, FEBRUARY, 1913
THIRD PRINTING, DECEMBER, 1914
FOURTH PRINTING, APRIL, 1919.

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Copyright, 1885, by Henry Holt & Company.
Copyright 1883, 1887, by Harper & Brothers.
Copyright, 1883, 1894, 1896, 1898, by The Forum.
Copyright, 1898, by D. Appleton & Company.
Copyright, 1883, by The Yale Law Journal.
Copyright, 1901, by The International Monthly.
Copyright, 1883, by The Yale Review.

PREFATORY NOTE

All rights on the essays in this work are reserved by the holders of the copyright. The publishers named in the subjoined list are the proprietors, either in their own right, or as agents for the author of the Essays of which the titles are given below, and of which the ownership is thus specifically noted. The Yale University Press makes grateful acknowledgment to the Publishers whose names appear below for their courteous permission to include in the present work the Essays of which they were the original publishers.

Yale University Press

Messrs. Henry Holt & Company. "Sociology" and "Our Colleges before the Country." (From the Collected Essays in Political and Social Science.) Messrs. Harper & Brothers. "State Interference," "On the Case of a Certain Man Who is Never Thought of," "The Case of the Forgotten Man Further Considered" (From "What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other"). The Forum. "Do We Want Industrial Peace?" "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over," "The Fallacy of Territorial Extension," "The Status of Women in Chaldes, Egypt, India, etc." "Witchcraft." D. Appleton & Company. "The Proposed Dual Organization of Mankind," Yale Law Journal. "The Conquest of the Unites States by Spain." The International Monthly. "The Predominant Issue," The Yale Review. "mores of the Present and Future." The American Journal of Sociology. "The Family and Social change," "Religion and the Mores."

CONTENTS
CHAPTER	PAGE
	Introduction	ix
I.	War	3
II.	The Family and Social Change	43
III.	The Status of Woman in Chaldea, Egypt, Judea, and Greece to the Time of Christ	65
IV.	Witchcraft	105
V.	Religion and the Mores	129
VI.	The Mores of the Present and Future	149
VII.	Sociology	167
VIII.	The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over	195
IX.	State Interference	213
X.	Do We Want Industrial Peace?	229
XI.	On the Case of a Certain Man Who Is Never Thought of	247
XII.	The Case of the Forgotten Man Further Considered	257
XIII.	The Proposed Dual Organization of Mankind	271
XIV.	The Fallacy of Territorial Extension	285
XV.	The Conquest of the United States by Spain	297
XVI.	The Predominant Issue	337
XVII.	Our Colleges before the Country	355
	Bibliography	375