...determine them until the last ton of coal is burnt. In Baxter's view the care for external goods shouid only lie on the shoulders of "the saint like a light...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage..., No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development...

...this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage." The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. T. Parsons (New York: Scribners, 1958), p....

...this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage. See Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. T. Parsons (New York: Scribners,...

...The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism a more ominous meaning than he may have intended: In Baxter's view the care for external goods should...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage. — Today the spirit of religious asceticism — whether finally, who knows? — has escaped from the...

...irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burned. In Baxter's view the care for external goods should...moment." But fate decreed that the cloak should become a housing hard as steel.0 The "housing hard as steel," of course, recalls the "secure house" of his...

...a calling; we are forced to do so.... In Baxter's view the care for external goods should lie only on the shoulders of the "saint like a light cloak,...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.'' Max \\feber, writing The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, did not invent the work ethic,...

...this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage. Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its ideals in the world, material goods...

...has congealed into a rational, mechanistic, irresistibly conditioned economic order. As he remarks, "In Baxter's view the care for external goods should...cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.'" Then, in what is probably his most famous sentence, Weber adds ominously, "But fate decreed that the...

...this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton...decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage. Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its ideals in the world, material goods...

...in the Sociological Imagination The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. ... In Baxter's view the care for external goods should...which can be thrown aside at any moment.' But fate declared that the cloak should become an iron cage. 1 These lines from The Protestant Ethic and the...