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Quotation from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney

“It must regard economic interests as one element in life, not as the whole of life”

R. H. Tawney

The Acquisitive Society, Ch. XI, 'Porro Unum Necessarium', p. 184 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741))

Part of the book's closing programme for a society that has rearranged its scale of values.

Citation: "It must regard economic interests as one element in life, not as the whole of life" — R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society, Ch. XI, 'Porro Unum Necessarium', p. 184 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741)). (id tawney-the-acquisitive-society-q12)

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