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Charles Emile Freppel
Born
in Obernai, France
June 01, 1827
Died
December 12, 1891
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“The Revolution is the Christian nation renouncing its baptism, throwing off its historical and traditional faith and trying to rebuild itself outside the Gospel, on the foundations of pure reason that has become the only source of law and the only rule of duty. A society that no longer has any guide other than the natural insights of the intellect, cut off from revelation, and no purpose other than the welfare of man in this world, apart from his higher and divine destiny: that is the core of the doctrine of the Revolution. Its hatred of the supernatural is and remains its most characteristic feature.”
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“Could it be that the French Revolution should not be considered a blessing at all, but on the contrary one of the most fateful events in human history?”
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“Er is niets minder Frans dan de Franse Revolutie », schrijft hij, « en het beste bewijs voor wat ik hier vooropstel is het feit dat zij zelf de ambitie heeft om iets heel anders te zijn. Zij richt zich immers niet tot Frankrijk, maar tot het hele mensdom ; zij proclameert de Rechten van de Mens, en niet die van de Franse burger ; zij streeft naar de rol van politiek Messias.”
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