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RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM- A HISTORICAL STUDY by R. H.
TAWNEY. Originally published in 1922. From The Holland Memorial
Lectures. PREFATORY NOTE: THE friends of the late Henry Scott Holland
founded alectureship in his memory, the Deed of Foundation laying it
down that a course of lectures, to be called the Holland Memorial
Lectures, are to be delivered triennially, having for their subject the
religion of theIncarnation in its bearing on the social and economiclife
of man The first course of these lectures was delivered by Mr, R. H,
Tawney at Kings College,London, in March and April 1922, but it is only
now,more than three years later, that the work of preparing them for
publication has been completed, andthat I have been called upon, as the
chairman of the Holland Trustees, to introduce our first series of
lectures to the public. They are a historical study ofthe religion of
the Reformation in its bearing on socialand economic thought. We have
been for many yearsfeeling our want of such a study, sufficiently
documentedand grounded upon an adequate knowledge of the literature of
the period, as we have watched the modernbattle between zealous
medievalists impugning the Reformation as deeply responsible for the
sins ofmodern industrialism, and no less zealous Protestantsrebutting
the charge or throwing it back. At last, Ibelieve, we have got what is
required, and that manybesides myself will find in the book a
permanentsource of enlightenment and a just and well grounded judgment,
I am thankful to feel that the first seriesof Holland lectures is a
worthy tribute to the memory of a man who set his brilliant faculties to
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