Word: tawney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History students will study the methods of the historians from Thucydides to Tawney and Toynbee. Then they will study the raw material that a modern historian might have to use-statistics, opinion polls, propaganda, debates on the floor of Congress-to see what they can make of them...
Chicago had pitched its celebration on a deliberately optimistic note-but not without grave philosophical headshakings. It gathered scores of eminent scholars to report their explorations (see pp. 68 & 73) on the frontiers of science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics...
...Wallace's Statesmanship and Religion (Round Table Press, 1934; $2): "The only people of this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious...