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“The difference, Charles, between the Protestant and the Catholic view of the world is this: Protestants seek to become Christ. Catholics seek to emulate him. It is, fundamentally, a difference in how we perceive the human being. To you, men are perfectible, and any outcome short of perfection is, therefore, slacking, settling for second-best. To us, human perfection is a kind of blasphemy. The idea that we could even approach the perfection of the Christ is anathema. We seek merely to become the best humans we can. This is complicated, of course, by national traits. For you English, life is a test, something to hone you for the next world. For we French, life is a gift from the Almighty, to be cherished. To a Frenchman, living well is a kind of worship.” Phillipe Edouard Sauvignon de Saint Clair (1742 - 1839), Letter to Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond, undated
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:05:34 +0000

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