Max Weber
(1864–1920)
German Sociologist

 

"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 at SocioSite contains a collection of Weber's writings. You have access to an e-book of The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism.

Other useful links:

http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/%7Elridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML#weber

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm