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...Running against ex-Governor Brann for Senator was Republican Congressman Ralph Brewster, who won the nomination after a bitter fight that left scars. For Governor, Sumner Sewall, World War I hero, president of the State Senate, was the Republican candidate opposed to Fulton Jarvis Redman, former newspaper publisher...
These timely pronouncements were uttered by the late Professor William Graham Sumner of Yale, who was born in 1840 and died in 1910. He it was who coined the forgotten term "Forgotten Man" - though Sumner applied it not to the faceless proletariat but to the harried bourgeoisie, which always paid the bill...
...tough-minded 19th-Century giant, founding father of modern social science in the U. S., Sumner was a great and galvanizing teacher, who has become a Yale legend. Five years after his thunderous lectures ceased forever, a group of his one time students and disciples organized the William Graham Sumner Club. This year, the centenary of the great man's birth, the club is honoring his memory by distributing salty Sumner sayings, which are a joy to every good Republican. More importantly, the anniversary was marked last week by the publication of a centennial edition of Sumner...
...that the development of society is governed by hard evolutionary principles-is now taken for granted by every educated person. At that time this knowledge was still largely an academic possession. The first application of Darwinian theory to human customs and institutions had been made by Huxley. From Huxley, Sumner went on, demolishing one cherished faith after another, with what he called "shovelfuls of facts...
...Sumner started his professional life as an Episcopal clergyman. But nine years after his graduation from Yale he went back there as professor of political and social science, started compiling a great mass of anthropological data which comprises the bulk of Folkways. In it he covered the origin and evolution of marriage and family, religion, government, abortion, infanticide, social codes, crime & punishment, slavery, patriotism and chauvinism, labor, wealth and 1,001 other facets of human society. Many surviving mores (a term he himself brought into common scientific usage) were irrational, often harmful, and he said so savagely...