William Graham Sumner - What Social Classes Owe To Each Other

Sumner felt that each social class owed enough room for each individual to be able to exist and succeed with out the bothering of other classes. He also believed that beause the rich were more prosperous and were surrounded by resources, they had the ability to solve all the problems while the poor had the oppurtunity to make and be the problems while the rich took care of undoing wrongs and problems that the poor create. He also believed that pity is also found in the poor because the problems and faults of the classes are glossed over to make worse and for people to feel even more sorry for stuff that is not as bad as it really is. He felt that because of the fact that people are attributing way to much time trying to correct problems which arent major and are made bigger then what they really are. He said that undoubtedly society is changing and moving for the worse becasue society is beginning to lose its essence or it's "poetry" as he said.