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.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology

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Public policy Poverty

Author

William Graham Sumner

Source

Sociology

Medium

Essay

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Academic Writer

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United States

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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "Sociology." The Princeton Review, May 1881.

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