William Graham Sumner’s “The Forgotten Man”

• We are offering William Graham Sumner’s essay “The Forgotten Man” as a free download.
• Sumner first presented his lectures on “The Forgotten Man” at Yale in 1883.
• These lectures were first published in the book What Social Classes Owe to Each Other in 1884.
• They appeared as chapters IX and X and were entitled, respectively, as “On The Case of a Certain Man Who Is Never Thought Of” and “The Case of the Forgotten Man Further Considered.”
• These two chapters, which are reproduced here, were scanned from the original 1884 publication.