"No living writer in modern Europe is more significant than René Guénon, whose task it has been to expound the universal metaphysical tradition that has been the essential foundation of every past culture, and which represents the indispensable basis for any civilization deserving to be so called."
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Ananda Coomaraswamy in the introduction of his translation of part of La crise du monde moderne, quoted in Roger Lipsey, Coomaraswamy, vol. 3: His Life and Work (1977), p. 169
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