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The great betrayal (La trahison des clercs)

Note 27 — II Significance of this Movement—Nature of Political Passions

Richard Aldington translation

It may be said that religious passions, at least in the West, only exist as a reinforcement to national passions; in France, a man sets up as a Catholic in order to pose as being ‘more French’; in Germany as a Protestant in order to declare himself ‘more German’.

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