As soon as he did not work, the poor man, whose poverty had sufficed to create his title in the world of pious legend, who had been regarded as bearing a sacred character because he symbolized the great affliction of mankind, was no longer the good friend of Jesus Christ. There was thus a type of poor whom Jesus Christ did not recognize, any more than the police did.


p. 160 - The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927)

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As soon as he did not work, the poor man, whose poverty had sufficed to create his title in the world of pious legend, who had been regarded as...

As soon as he did not work, the poor man, whose poverty had sufficed to create his title in the world of pious legend, who had been regarded as...

As soon as he did not work, the poor man, whose poverty had sufficed to create his title in the world of pious legend, who had been regarded as...

As soon as he did not work, the poor man, whose poverty had sufficed to create his title in the world of pious legend, who had been regarded as...