Bernard Groethuysen Quote

In the bourgeois' world,... if some respect was shown to God, it was on condition that he in turn would respect the general laws governing the universe and refrain from acting contrary to the plans of the middle class, who used their reason and demanded their share in the governance of the world.

p. 15 - The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927)