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Course: AP??/College US History?>?Unit 6
Lesson 9: Responses to immigration in the Gilded AgeResponses to immigration in the Gilded Age
Problem
Read the excerpt and answer the question below.
“The millionaires are a product of natural selection, acting on the whole body of men to pick out those who can meet the requirement of certain work to be done. In this respect, they are just like the great statesmen, or scientific men, or military men. It is because they are thus selected that wealth—both their own and that entrusted to them—aggregates under their hands. . . . They may fairly be regarded as the naturally selected agents of society for certain work.”
-Source: William Graham Sumner, The Challenge of Facts: and Other Essays, 1914
The perspective expressed in the excerpt most directly supported which of the following?