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Uranians by Theodore McCombs
At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “Uranian”—a man who …
A time capsule of the period, Weber got most of the history wrong and invented "the Protestant Work Ethic," which wasn't a common idea before this book. Nevertheless, American protestants liked being told that they're better than everyone else and deserve all the wealth in the world; a century later, the idea is now a real part of US culture and protestant theology.
