The Church would have liked to turn to each of those thousand unbelievers separately, to show him that he was wrong, that he had allowed himself to be led astray by his passions, that he had everything to fear in the next life, and so forth. But it was not he, really, who had become disbelieving, it was his whole class, and it was his class consciousness which replied for him when he was addressed individually.


p. 25 - The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927)

Bernard Groethuysen Quotes

The Church would have liked to turn to each of those thousand unbelievers separately, to show him that he was wrong, that he had allowed himself to...

The Church would have liked to turn to each of those thousand unbelievers separately, to show him that he was wrong, that he had allowed himself to...

The Church would have liked to turn to each of those thousand unbelievers separately, to show him that he was wrong, that he had allowed himself to...

The Church would have liked to turn to each of those thousand unbelievers separately, to show him that he was wrong, that he had allowed himself to...