Bernard Groethuysen Quote

Nothing, then, would prevent him henceforth from living his life, a purely secular life, according to his nature and his habits, without having to ask himself at every moment whether what he had done was displeasing to God or not. And since he was no longer the sinner whose life, as soon as he acted by his own powers, was but sin, he would be able to enumerate separately the sins which he had committed on a particular occasion.


p. 120 - The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927)


Nothing, then, would prevent him henceforth from living his life, a purely secular life, according to his nature and his habits, without having to...

Nothing, then, would prevent him henceforth from living his life, a purely secular life, according to his nature and his habits, without having to...

Nothing, then, would prevent him henceforth from living his life, a purely secular life, according to his nature and his habits, without having to...

Nothing, then, would prevent him henceforth from living his life, a purely secular life, according to his nature and his habits, without having to...