Religion and the rise of capitalism

by R. H. Tawney

[66] Printed in Paul Henry, op. cit., vol. ii, Appx., pp. 23-5.

[67] E. Choisy, L’Etat Chrétien Calviniste à Genève au temps de Théodore de Bèze, 1902, p. 145. I should like to make acknowledgments to this excellent book for most of the matter contained in the following paragraphs.

[68] Paul Henry, op. cit., pp. 70-5. Other examples are given by Preserved Smith, op. cit., pp. 170-4, and by F. W. Kampschulte, Johann Calvin, seine Kirche und sein Staat in Genf, 1869. Statistical estimates of the bloodthirstiness of Calvin’s régime vary; Smith (p. 171) states that in Geneva, a town of 16,000 inhabitants, 58 persons were executed and 76 banished in the years 1542-6.

[69] Knox, quoted by Preserved Smith, op. cit., p. 174.

[70] Calvin, Inst., bk. iii, ch. vii, par. 5.

[71] Choisy, op. cit., pp. 442-3.

[72] Ibid., pp. 35-37.

[73] Ibid., pp. 189, 117-19.

[74] Ibid., pp. 35, 165-7.

[75] Ibid., pp. 119-21.