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The successful businessmen were then , for Sumner by his logic , the elite of the nation . ... Success was His abhor- never for him a motive which carried its own justification . ence of the plutocrat who succeeded by political means ...
The successful businessmen were then , for Sumner by his logic , the elite of the nation . ... Success was His abhor- never for him a motive which carried its own justification . ence of the plutocrat who succeeded by political means ...
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You get the legitimation of these virtues , not by religious salvation , but rather in terms of the degree to which they bring success in this world . So the ethical legacy of Puritanism becomes an ideology according to which the ...
You get the legitimation of these virtues , not by religious salvation , but rather in terms of the degree to which they bring success in this world . So the ethical legacy of Puritanism becomes an ideology according to which the ...
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Post - bellum America was peculiarly vulnerable to an ideologic at- tack that exalted worldly success , that exploited the growing prestige of science , that appealed for verification to the tangible and the real .
Post - bellum America was peculiarly vulnerable to an ideologic at- tack that exalted worldly success , that exploited the growing prestige of science , that appealed for verification to the tangible and the real .
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