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The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane. — Andre Gide

Novel

The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

In the original French

Transporter le drame sur le plan moral, c’était pourtant l’effort du chri^ianisme.

Andre Gide
The Counterfeiters · 1925
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Christianity
Medium
Novel
Time
1925
Person
Andre Gide
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Current citation
Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 13.
Original citation
Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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