Written in 1905, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber argues that certain aspects of Protestantism, particularly the belief in a calling and predestination, fostered a ...
If you don't like the work ethic, blame the Protestants. As the theory goes, Protestant ministers greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution, preaching hard work as a path to salvation, thus ...
Before the Industrial Revolution, people slept in two intervals of about four hours each, bridged by a period of "quiet wakefulness." According to historian Roger Ekirch of the University of Virginia, ...
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