This article is a modest and frankly speculative attempt to draw the atten tion to two variables which (a) could possibly be 'behind' the more tradi tional ones, such as asceticism, objectivity, efficiency, rationality and individualism mentioned as salient for the original development of rational capitalism, natural science and modern democracy, and (b) could possibly provide an interesting fit with sociological theory and the sociology of religion.
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