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Never was Catholicism,...

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Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

Source: My Past and Thoughts, vol. 2, pt. 5, ch. 38, Post Scriptum (1921; tr. by Constance Garnett, 1924-27).
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.


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