This is to make available William Graham Sumner’s, book Earth-Hunger and other Essays as compact pdf-files. The target was to simplify printing off the essays and other parts of the book or to read them on a smart phone.
Description of my technical processing:
I took the pdf-version from https://archive.org/details/earthhungerother00sumniala
and processed it with the OCR-programm FineReader 12 Professional . The parts of the book ware saved als pdf-files with a resolution of 150 dpi and without the original picture.
I made only minor corrections. For example the Umlaut ü in “menschenwürdiges” or “menschwürdig” in An Examination of a Noble Sentiment was not correctly recognized by FineReader, since the document language to be used was English. The French word sensibilité too was incorrectly recognized in the same essay.
If you find any more errors, please let me know by the comment function.
Construction of the filenames
Example:
Sumner-EH-131-L-IsLibertyALostBlessing.pdf
- Author: Sumner
- Abbreviation of the title of the book: EH ( for Earth Hunger and other Essays)
- Abbreviation of the part of the book – as in table of contents: L ( for Liberty)
- Page number where the essay starts according to the original table of contents (see below): 131
- Name of the essay oder part in camel case notation
Now here is the table of contents of Earth-Hunger and other Essays, where the Titles are contain the links to the pdf-files:
Autobiography[1903]…………………………………………….. 3
The Teachers Uncontious Success…………………………… 9
The Scientific Attitude of Mind………………………………. 17
Earth Hunger…………………………………………………………. 31
Purposes and Consequences…………………………………. 67
Rights……………………………………………………………………. 79
Equality…………………………………………………………………. 87
First Steps Toward a Millennium [1888]………………….. 93
LIBERTY [1887-1889]
What Is Civil Liberty?…………………………………………….109
Is Liberty a Lost Blessing?……………………………………… 131
Alle vier Essays der “Who Is Free”-Reihe, von S. 136 – 155 stehen in einer Datei.
Who Is Free? Is It the Savage?……………………………….. 136
Who Is Free? Is It the Civilized Man?……………………… 140
Who Is Free? Is It the Millionaire?…………………………..145
Who Is Free? Is It the Tramp?………………………………….150
Alle Essays der Gruppe Liberty von S. 156 – 203 stehen in einer gemeinsamen pdf-Datei:
Liberty and Responsibility…………. ………………………….156
Liberty and Law………………………………………………………161
Liberty and Discipline……………………………………………. 166
Liberty and Property……………………………………………… 171
Liberty and Opportunity……………………………………….. 176
Liberty and Labor……………………………………………………181
Does Labor Brutalize?…………………………………………….187
Liberty and Machinery…………………………………………… 193
The Disappointment of Liberty………………………………..198
FANTASIES AND FACTS
Some Points in the New Social Creed……………………..207
An Examination of a Noble Sentiment…………………….212
The Banquet of Life………………………………………………..217
Some Natural Rights…………. ………………………………….222
The Abolition of Poverty………………………………………..228
The Boon of Nature……………………………………………… 233
Land Monopoly…………………………………………………….239
A Group of Natural Monopolies ……………………………245
Another Chapter on Monopoly……………………………. 249
The Family Monopoly………………………………………….. 254
The Family and Property………………………………………. 259
The State and Monopoly………………………………………..270
DEMOCRACY
Democracy and Plutocracy…………………………………….283
Definitions of Democracy and Plutocracy……………… 290
Conflict of Plutocracy and Democracy……………………296
Democracy and Modern Problems…………………………301
Separation of State and Market …………………………….306
Social War in Democracy………………………………………..312
Economics and Politics…………………………………………..318
The Power and Beneficence of Capital [1899]…………337
Sociological Fallacies [1884]…………………………………. 357
What Our Boys are Reading [1880]………………………. 367
