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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, ch. 4, sec. 4 (1926) - Tawney, R. H. | WIST Quotations
That the greatest of evils is idleness, that the poor are the victims, not of circumstances, but of their own "idle, irregular, and wicked courses," that the truest charity is not to enervate them by relief, but so to reform their characters that relief may be unnecessary -- such doctrines…