This passage is excerpted from William Graham Sumner, "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over," originally published in 1894. Sumner was an outspoken economist and highly influential sociology professor at Yale University. The main purpose of the passage is to(A) delineate the course of industrial progress.(B) question the practicality of democratic ideals.(C) encourage support for individual liberties.(D) highlight the uselessness of social reform.
