The Economist (US), June 17th, 1989
Puritans
The city, the hill and the self
THE PURITAN ORDEAL.
Andrew Delbanco.
TO THE general public, the Puritan is a killjoy: "a man", as H. L. Mencken put it, "who is afraid that somebody, somewhere, is having a good time." Disciples of Max Weber and R. H. Tawney regard the original Puritans as responsible for the rise of capitalism in the seventeenth century, placing selfish individualism above community values. Whatever its connotations, however, the Puritan legacy has remained not only potent but extremely varied. In Britain, its traditions of committed individuality and non-conform...
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