Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. 1905 [EN 1930]   Page numbers from the Dover Publication 2003 edition. Jan Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c.1658   The Spirit of Capitalism A series of contemporary statistics and common sense (35-40), Weber says, clearly shows the cohabitation of Protestantism and capitalistic enterprise. Western civilisation had apparently intersected a spirit…