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William Graham Sumner
[1907]
3
THE
FORGOTTEN MAN
AND
OTHER ESSAYS
BY
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER
EDITED BY
ALBERT GALLOWAY KELLER
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXVIII
Copyright, 1919,
By Yale University Press
PREFACE
With the present collection the publication ofSumner’s Essays comes to an end. The originalproject of publishers and editor contemplated but a singlevolume—“War and Other Essays”—and they accordinglyequipped that volume with a bibliography whichwas as complete as they then could make it. But when,later on, other materials came to be known about, andespecially after the discovery of a number of unpublishedmanuscripts, the encouraging reception accorded tothe first venture led us to publish a second, and then athird collection: “Earth Hunger and Other Essays” and“The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays.” It wasduring the preparation of the latter of these, now somefive years ago, that the late Professor Callender deplored tothe editor the omission of certain of Sumner’s essays inpolitical economy—in particular those dealing with freetrade and sound money. And the reviewers of precedingcollections had reminded us, rightly enough, that thereshould be a fuller bibliography and also an index coveringall the essays.
In this last volume we have striven to meet these severalsuggestions and criticisms. And it is now the purpose ofthe publishers to form of these singly issued volumes a setof four, numbered in the order of their issue. Since theseries could not have been planned as such at the outset,this purpose is in the nature of an after-thought; and thereis therefore no general organization or systematic classificatio