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Answers questions on Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure and pecuniary emulation, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Social evolution is a process of selective adaptation of temperament and habits of thought under the stress of the circumstances of associated life. The adaptat…”
Answers questions on W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk: double consciousness, education and the color line, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“In the civilized life of to-day the contact of men and their relations to each other fall in a few main lines of action and communication: there is, first, the …”
Answers questions on Henry George's Progress and Poverty: why poverty persists as wealth grows, rent, wages and the taxation of land values, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“The mental power, which is the motor of social progress, is set free by association, which is, what, perhaps, it may be more properly called, an integration. So…”
Answers questions on John Locke's Second Treatise of Government: natural rights, property and government by consent, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“### OF POLITICAL OR CIVIL SOCIETY. Sect. 77. GOD having made man such a creature, that in his own judgment, it was not good for him to be alone, put him under s…”
Answers questions on Rousseau's The Social Contract: the general will, sovereignty and legitimate government, quoting G. D. H. Cole's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty: the harm principle, freedom of thought and the limits of authority, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## CHAPTER IV. OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL. What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himsel…”
Answers questions on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: virtue, happiness, friendship and the golden mean, quoting D. P. Chase's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“Nevertheless each work aims at a relative completeness, and it is important to observe the relation of each to the other. The distinction is not that the one tr…”
Answers questions on Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Part I: equality, local self-government and the tyranny of the majority, quoting Henry Reeve's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“## Chapter Summary A Social condition is commonly the result of circumstances, sometimes of laws, oftener still of these two causes united; but wherever it exis…”
Answers questions on Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations: division of labour, markets, prices, wages and trade, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book and chapter.
“In some cases, the state of society necessarily places the greater part of individuals in such situations as naturally form in them, without any attention of go…”
Answers questions on Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto: class struggle, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and the measures it proposes, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“## I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lo…”