Richard Henry Tawney Quotes
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
Tawney, R. H. The Acquisitive Society. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920.
Richard Henry "Harry" Tawney, generally known as R. H. Tawney, was an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist, and 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".