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  • The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

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  • ...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

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    R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.166, Verso Books
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R. H. Tawney

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