Calvinism - pagina 30
the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties
Calvinism and
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bonds of order and authority, undermined the securities of social life, offered free scope to the passions, and made room for the material and lower appetites to rule and enslave the spirit.
We,
anti-revolutionists, have taken
system, not against those
liberties.
up arms against
We know
this
the /^ri'/^^-
paradis cannot be realized on earth, but we are equally unwilling, without just cause, to retrace our steps to tives dti
the siipplices de renfer.
Thinking
an act of wisdom, the press has taken de-
it
extreme revolutionists whenever our prowere entered against reaction and repristination. But
light in calling us tests
this
So
a mistake.
is
little
are
we
averse to revolutions, in
the general sense, that the insurrection of Greece against
commands our
Persia
tion against the
admiration, and Switzerland's insurrec-
Hapsburgs awakens our sympathies, the
re-
sistence of Holland against Spain incites our love, England's
glorious revolution receives our hearty approval, and America's liberation
our warmest praise and applause.
But protest
is
revolutionists side
Bluntschli's liberals,
and yet
entered against those
by
side with the
name in his
rechts" he writes:
who
place these
French Revolution.
excites no suspicion in the
minds of
" Geschichte des allgemeinen Staats-
"The
English revolution did not intend,
as the French Revolution did later on, to bring into the world
a
new
state,
and a new law;
its
only purpose was to defend
the ancient rights of the people and with
new guarantees
to
re-establish them.*"
And why fessor
not quote Burke, introduced
Opzoomer
in
among
us
by Pro-
his rectoral oration in
1857 as a liberal statesman par excellence and a most trustworthy guide in all politic. Edmund Burke was an anti-revolutionist. defended the American insurrection, because faith "always a principle of energy showed itself in this good people
matters
He
the main cause of a free
spirit,
the most adverse to
all
im-
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's