Significant Lines
HISTORY 212-2
Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion
Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890
Thorstein Veblen, Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement, wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor's own effort.”
Luther Standing Bear, excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for us, and it meant nothing for them to take our lives, even through starvation and cold…But still we did not kill them.”
Howard Ruede, “Letter from a Kansas Homesteader” (1878) * “I have something less than a dollar, and Pa has a whole dollar in cash, but we are happy anyhow.”
Chief Joseph, “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs” (1879) * “ We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace…we were mistaken.” Page 29.
William Graham Sumner on Social Darwanism (ca. 1880) * “The social difficulty has only undergone temporary amelioration…competition are renewed, misery and poverty reappear…The victims of them are those who have inherited diseases.” Page 34.
A Second Declaration of Independence (1879) * “ Slavery is…the child of poverty, instead of poverty the child of slavery…to universal freedom is the road that leads to universal wealth.” Page 37.
Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879) * “We speak Liberty as one thing, and virtue, wealth, knowledge, invention, national strength, and national independence as other things…Liberty is the source.” Page 41.
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888) * “I am aware that you called yourselves free in the nineteenth century…the meaning of the word could not then…certainly would not have applied it to society…every member was in a position of galling dependence upon others.” Page 45.
Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel (1912) * “Our
Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion
Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890
Thorstein Veblen, Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement, wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor's own effort.”
Luther Standing Bear, excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for us, and it meant nothing for them to take our lives, even through starvation and cold…But still we did not kill them.”
Howard Ruede, “Letter from a Kansas Homesteader” (1878) * “I have something less than a dollar, and Pa has a whole dollar in cash, but we are happy anyhow.”
Chief Joseph, “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs” (1879) * “ We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace…we were mistaken.” Page 29.
William Graham Sumner on Social Darwanism (ca. 1880) * “The social difficulty has only undergone temporary amelioration…competition are renewed, misery and poverty reappear…The victims of them are those who have inherited diseases.” Page 34.
A Second Declaration of Independence (1879) * “ Slavery is…the child of poverty, instead of poverty the child of slavery…to universal freedom is the road that leads to universal wealth.” Page 37.
Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879) * “We speak Liberty as one thing, and virtue, wealth, knowledge, invention, national strength, and national independence as other things…Liberty is the source.” Page 41.
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888) * “I am aware that you called yourselves free in the nineteenth century…the meaning of the word could not then…certainly would not have applied it to society…every member was in a position of galling dependence upon others.” Page 45.
Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel (1912) * “Our