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R.H. Tawney


Born
in Cacutta, India
November 30, 1880

Died
January 16, 1962

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Richard Henry "R. H." Tawney (/ˈtɔːni/; 30 November 1880 � 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist, and an important proponent of adult education.

The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in all four of these "interrelated roles". A. L. Rowse goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally".
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“Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.”
R.H. Tawney, Equality

“Granted, I should love my neighbor as myself, the questions which, under modern conditions of large-scale organization, remain for solution are, ''Who precisely is my neighbor?'' and ''How exactly am I to make my love for them effective in practice?''... It had insisted that all men were brethren. But it did not occur to it to point out that, as a result of the new economic imperialism, which was begging to develop in the 17th century, the brethren of the English merchant were the Africans whom he kidnapped for slavery in America, or the American Indians from whom he stripped of their lands, or the Indian craftsmen whom he bought muslin's and silks at starvation prices. Religion had not yet learned to console itself for the practical difficulty of applying its moral principles by clasping the comfortable formula that for the transaction of economic life no moral principles exist.”
R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

“What thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty , thoughtful poor people with equal justice call the problem of riches.”
R H Tawney

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