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Religion is the first of the powers that can oppose the plutocracies, and especially a religion that is as strongly organised as Catholicism; instituted as a function of the state it loses a large part of its independence and, if money is the master of the state, it loses its outspokenness against money. Material power triumphs without the control of its principal spiritual antagonist.

— Charles Maurras The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)

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