This thinker analogized defenses of capitalism to “Tadpole Philosophy,” in which frogs lucky enough to have survived to adulthood speak of how “tadpoles of character and capacity can rise to be frogs.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this early Labour Party figure who attacked capitalism on Christian moral grounds in the books The Acquisitive Society and Equality. The 1922 tract Secondary Education For All elaborates on this person’s contributions to the Young Report.
ANSWER: R. H. Tawney [or Richard Henry Tawney]
[10e] Specifically, Tawney led this society within the Labour Party for 10 years. This gradualist society was named for a Roman general and included members like H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw.
ANSWER: Fabian Society [prompt on Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus]
[10m] The Fabian Society’s politics were heavily influenced by this earlier Christian socialist’s book Unto This Last. This critic advocated for historical preservation in a work titled for “seven lamps.”
ANSWER: John Ruskin
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