From FactMonster , “William Graham Sumner”
As a sociologist he did valuable work in charting the evolution of human customs—folkways and mores. He concluded that the power of these forces, developed in the course of human evolution, rendered useless any attempts at social reform.
Well, I, for one, am convinced that drunk driving and smoking during pregnancy remain just as socially acceptable as they were in the 1940s.
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