RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM
Reading edition
A HISTORICAL STUDY
(HOLLAND MEMORIAL LECTURES, 1922)
BY R. H. TAWNEY
READER IN ECONOMIC HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; SOMETIME FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
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TO DR. CHARLES GORE WITH AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE
“Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.”
Bishop Berkeley, Siris, 350.