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  • A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

  • Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.

    R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.198, Verso Books
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R. H. Tawney

  • Born: November 30, 1880
  • Died: January 16, 1962
  • Occupation: Professor