ABSTRACT
There were contacts between Bernstein and Weber, although they were very limited. In 1904, Weber wrote to Bernstein asking for advice on nineteenth century Quaker thinking on usury. Weber was working on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Bernstein had published his book on socialist thought during the English revolution. At one level this was, therefore, a simple communication between one scholar and another, who were working on related subjects. Weber also asked Bernstein to visit him while Bernstein was in Heidelberg and to contribute to the Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik. 1 We do not know whether Bernstein did meet Weber and he did not contribute to the Archiv. I do not know whether Bernstein did have any advice or information to give Weber on the matter of Quaker views on usury and, if so, whether it had any influence on Weber's published treatment of that problem. At this level, therefore, the contact appears brief and insignificant.
