p. 171
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Since the God of the Christians blessed and rewarded toil, there was nothing, surely, to prevent him from approving the effort of the bourgeois. True, the bourgeois' wealth was often far from being the product of his own labor, but he always liked be told that it was, and if he was to be made a Christian it was necessary to insist on this point.
— 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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