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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Book X: Mammon

Wealth, and the crimes that are committed in its name, and the protests of the spirit of humanity against its power in society.
Paradise Lost—John Milton (1608–74)
Miss Kilmansegg: Her Moral—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)
Northern Farmer: New Style—Alfred Tennyson (1809–92)
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep—John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)
From Ecclesiasticus
Past and Present—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
Dipsychus—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–61)
Utopia—Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)
The Crown of Wild Olive—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
Don Juan—Lord Byron (1788–1824)
From Timon of Athens (Act IV, Scene III)—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Cave of Mammon (From “The Faerie Queene”)—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
Mammon Marriage—George Macdonald (1824–1905)
Snobs and Marriage (From “The Book of Snobs”)—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63)
In Bohemia—John Boyle O’Reilly
Vanity Fair (From “The Pilgrim’s Progress”)—John Bunyan (1628–88)
The Sins of Society—Bernard Vaughan
Fifth Avenue, 1915—Hermann Hagedorn
Hotel Life (From “The House of Mirth”)—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
The Parasitic Female (From “Woman and Labor”)—Olive Schreiner (1855–1920)
In the Market-Place (From “Beyond the Breakers”)—George Sterling
Dinner à la Tango—Edwin Björkman
Evils of Gold (From Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene III)—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Theory of the Leisure Class—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
The Vanity of Human Wishes—Samuel Johnson (1709–84)
Letters from a Chinese Official—G. Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932)
Stupidity Street—Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962)
The Souls of Black Folk—W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963)
Co-operation and Nationality—“A.E.” (George W. Russell) (1867–1935)
The Communist Manifesto—Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (1818–83)
Portrait of an American—Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977)
A Living Wage—J. Pierpont Morgan (1867–1943)
Impressions—Harold Monro (1879–1932)
New Varieties of Sin (From “Sin and Society”)—Edward Alsworth Ross (1866–1951)
Jack London (1876–1916)
Tono-Bungay—H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Man the Reformer—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
To a Certain Rich Young Ruler—Clement Wood (1888–1950)
From the Politics of Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
Amos
Concerning Charity—John R. Lawson
Crowds—Gerald Stanley Lee
The Dying Boss—Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936)
A Ballad of Dead Girls—Dana Burnet
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Miner’s Tale—May Beals
Romance—Seymour Deming
The Soul’s Errand—Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618)
December 31st—Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938)
Sisters of the Cross of Shame—Dana Burnet
Bringing the Light (From “A Bed of Roses”)—W. L. George
The Selling of Love (From “Love’s Coming of Age”)—Edward Carpenter (1844–1929)
The Butcher’s Stall (From “Les Villes Tentaculaires:” The Octopus Cities)—Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916)
Fomá Gordyéeff—Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)
Venus Pandemos—Richard Dehmel (1863–1920)