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 (1880–1962) English writer, economist, historian, social critic [Richard Henry Tawney]

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, ch. 4 (1926)
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