p. 153
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Did all these concerns in which the bourgeois was engaged really need external hallowing? They contained their own built-in standards, and the bourgeois was unwilling to recognize any other. If religion was to signify anything in his life, it would have to connect with that life itself, exalt the motives which determined it, not only tolerate them or approve them from a distance, but penetrate them and model itself on the very special morality which governed it.
— Bernard Groethuysen
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Source: Wikiquote: "Bernard Groethuysen" (Quotes, The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927): Origines de l'esprit bourgeois en France (1927), as translated by Mary Ilford (1968))
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About Bernard Groethuysen
Bernard Groethuysen (September 9, 1880 - September 17, 1946) was a French writer and philosopher.
About Bernard Groethuysen
Bernard Groethuysen (September 9, 1880 - September 17, 1946) was a French writer and philosopher.
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