p. 48
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The Church, sensing that the middle class was slipping out of its grasp, certainly tried to create patterns of living which would enable the bourgeois to remain a bourgeois as well as a Christian; that is, to carry out his economic and social functions while preserving the features of a son of the Church. But it never succeeded in hallowing the aspirations of the new middle class by giving them a religious basis.
— 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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