Near the end of this essay, the author bemoans that "old medieval theories of protection and personal dependence" have been mixed with "modern theories of independence and individual liberty," causing a double harm.
Near the end of this essay, the author bemoans that "old medieval theories of protection and personal dependence" have been mixed with "modern theories of independence and individual liberty," causing a double harm. It begins by pointing out that runaway horses cause more damage than floods, and consumption kills more people than yellow fever, but newspapers only care about public calamities. It first appeared in print as the last entry in a namesake book, after the essay "The Cooperative Commonwealth" - that book was edited by the author's student Albert Galloway Keller. The author writes that "vice is its own curse" and that nature left alone cures vice, because "a drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be." This essay repeatedly posits figures dubbed "A" and "B" who try to pass laws to help the suffering, but in doing so, they only burden the title figure, an honest laborer. For 10 points, name this essay by William Graham Sumner, which praises a figure that society never thinks about.
Near the end of this essay, the author bemoans that "old medieval theories of protection and personal dependence" have been mixed with "modern theories of independence and individual liberty," causing a double harm.
"The Forgotten Man"