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William Graham Sumner - It is the tendency of the...
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. (William Graham Sumner)

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

William Graham Sumner

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