CARE OF HIMSELF 71

VII. CONCERNING SOME OLD FOES UNDER NEW FACES 88

VIII. ON THE VALUE, AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE, OF THE
RULE TO MIND ONE'S OWN BUSINESS 97

IX. ON THE CASE OF A CERTAIN MAN WHO IS NEVER THOUGHT OF 107

X. THE CASE OF THE FORGOTTEN MAN FARTHER CONSIDERED 116

XI. WHEREFORE WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER 132




FOREWORD


Written more than fifty years ago--in 1883--WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE
TO EACH OTHER is even more pertinent today than at the time of its
first publication. Then the arguments and "movements" for penalizing
the thrifty, energetic, and competent by placing upon them more and
more of the burdens of the thriftless, lazy and incompetent, were just
beginning to make headway in our country, wherein these "social
reforms" now all but dominate political and so-called "social"
thinking.

Among the great nations of the world today, only the United States of
America champions the rights of the individual as against the state and