The Forgotten Man...
Started a new book on the history of the Great Depression. Just read the introduction and I am excited to get into this book. The title is called, "The Forgotten Man" which comes from a 1883 essay by William Graham Sumner. Here is his quote:
As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or in the better case what A, B and C shall do for X...What I want to do is look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who is never thought of...
He works, he votes, generally he prays- but he always pays...
In case you need the definition of appellation: the action of giving a name to a person or thing. I am not too proud to say I looked it up. !
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I like this. Can you expand?
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