For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his "atheism” consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. ... It is the divinizing of politics. (Julien Benda)

For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his "atheism” consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. ... It is the divinizing of politics.

Julien Benda

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