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Quotation from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
“God had been thrust into the frigid altitudes of infinite space”
The Acquisitive Society, Ch. II, 'Rights and Functions', p. 12 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741))
Tawney's description of eighteenth-century religion, which he says had withdrawn from social life and become a private matter.
Citation: "God had been thrust into the frigid altitudes of infinite space" — R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society, Ch. II, 'Rights and Functions', p. 12 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741)). (id tawney-the-acquisitive-society-q2)
