Contents

Foreword ix

Editor's Note xxxvii

Bibliographical Essay xxxix

I Preacher 3

1. Individualism [1871] 5

2. Tradition and Progress [1872] 16

3. Solidarity of the Human Race [1873] 26

II Educational Reformer 37

4. The "Ways and Means" for Our Colleges [1870] 39

5. What Our Boys Are Reading [1878] 46

6. Our Colleges before the Country [1884] 54

7. Discipline [1880 or 1889] 67

1II Polemicist 79

8. Republican Government [1877] 81

9. Presidential Elections and Civil-Service

Reform [1881] 93

10. The Argument against Protective Taxes [1881] 110

11. The Philosophy of Strikes [1883] 127

12. The Family Monopoly[1888] 133

13. Democracy and Plutocracy [1888-1889] 138

14. The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic

Justification [1902] 149

IV Social Theorist 157

15. Socialism [1880s] 159

16. Sociology [1881] 183

17. The Forgotten Man [1883] 201

18. The Survival of the Fittest [1884] 223

19. Laissez-Faire [1886] 227

20. The State as an "Ethical Person" [1887] 234

21. Liberty [1887-1889] 237

22. The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over

[1894] 251

V Anti-Imperialist 263

23. The Fallacy of Territorial Expansion [1896] 265

24. The Conquest of the United States by Spain

[1898] 272

25. War [1903] 298

VI Sociologist 323

26. Purposes and Consequences [ca. 1900-1906] 325

27. The Scientific Attitude of Mind [1905] 331

28. Mores and Statistics [ca. 190O-1906] 340

29. Science and Mores [ca. 1900-1906] 343

30. On Mores and Progress [ca. 1900-1906] 347

31. Folkways [1906] 357

VII Prophet 373

32. The Bequests of the Nineteenth Century to the

Twentieth [1901] 375

33. The Mores of the Present and the Future [1909] 393

Index 405