 Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty...  Christianity and Socialism - Page 152by Washington Gladden - 1905 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Graham Sumner - Economics - 1888 - 182 pages
...philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managersin-general of society. Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or...matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but... | |
 | Science - 1884 - 902 pages
...THE RULE TO MIND ONE'S OWN BUSINESS," and here the author remarks : " Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or...matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Philosophy - 1895 - 320 pages
...an individualist, he would say, in the words of one of them, that " every man and woman in society has one big duty : that is, to take care of his or her own self." But, being a Christian, he does not adopt the heresy of Cain, nor does he expect salvation by machinery.... | |
 | Frederick Ludwig Hoffman - Industrial life insurance - 1900 - 396 pages
...man shall take care of his own, or, as Professor Sumner has put it, " Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or...matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but... | |
 | Ethics - 1909 - 326 pages
...Sumner, of Yale College, whose point of view comes out in a remark that "every man and woman in society has one big duty — that is to take care of his or herself," questions whether the policeman should even pick a drunkard out of the gutter ; and there... | |
 | Economics - 1921 - 352 pages
...greatest number to be realized? Here Professor Sumner has a word : "Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or...matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but... | |
 | Paul Howard Douglas, Dorothy Wolff Douglas, Carl Smith Joslyn - Charities - 1921 - 148 pages
...greatest number to be realized? Here Professor Sumner has a word : "Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or...matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but... | |
 | Christopher Waldrep, Michael Bellesiles - History - 2006 - 416 pages
...that "poverty is the best policy." The poor deserve to be poor, and "Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self." But it was not clear why, then, individual workers should not organize and even use violence in order... | |
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