Its attitude
[Puritanism] was thus suspicious and
often hostile to the aspects of culture without any religious value. …
Although we cannot
here enter upon a discussion of the influence of Puritanism in all …
directions, we should call attention to the fact that the toleration of
pleasure in cultural goods, which contributed to purely aesthetic or athletic
enjoyment, certainly ran up against one characteristic limitation: they must
not cost anything.[1]
[1]
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism, tr. Talcott Parsons (New York: Charles Scribner,
1958), pp. 168, 170. This work first
appeared in German in 1904-05.
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