In Baxter's view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the 'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.

Max Weber (Talcott Parsons' translation): The Iron Cage of Capitalism (1904)

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