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a third "myth" in our time, no less vital than the national and revolutionary myths, and the
only one compatible with the Christian ethic and with which the Catholic Church has often
allied itself: the myth of perpetual peace through self-determination and democracy. The
irrationality of the spiritual foundations and chiliastic goal of this myth is not limited because
in the circumstances of contemporary Europe it points in the same direction as that of the
rational considerations and bourgeois good sense.
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