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“Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.”

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R. H. Tawney

Part IV, Ch. 3
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

“In England it is not ungentlemanly to steal halfpennies from children, and industrial interests, it may be assumed, will oppose any reform which interferes with the supply of cheap juvenile labour.”

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Secondary Education For All (1922)

“There was in Puritanism an element which was conservative and traditionalist, and an element which was revolutionary; a collectivism which grasped at an iron discipline, and an individualism which spurned the savorless mess of human ordinances; a sober prudence which would garner the fruits of this world, and a divine recklessness which would make all things new.”

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Part IV, Ch. 2
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”

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Conclusion
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)