“In every human soul there is a socialist and an individualist, an authoritarian and a fanatic for liberty, as in each there is a Catholic and a Protestant. The same is true of the mass movements in which men marshal themselves for common action.”

—  R. H. Tawney

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

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