Calvinism a life-system - pagina 187

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v^ CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

and these two cannot be

what

found

is

unconscious

normal;

lacking in

is

the

own

man's

that

in his consciousness If,

consciousness

and hence must be

therefore,

that both

Both,

such

erect

a

men,

as honest

edifice

scientific

that

is,

it

should agree, and that

every endeavor to make them agree must be failure.

be

prinmm-

his

is

it

also the starting-point for

then the logical conclusion

scientist,

an impossibility,

is

is

the other has an experience both of a break

veriim,

every

The one

other.

break and clings accordingly to the

of a

knowledge of the abnormal.

true

In the one

identical.

and of a change, and thus possesses the

83

that of the regenerate and the unregen-

consciousness : erate;

1

doomed

will feel

duty bound to

the

whole cosmos,

for

in harmony with the fundamental data, given own self-consciousness. You perceive immediately, how radical and fundamental

which

is

in their

Calvinistic

this

Science for

the

claim

problem

is

not undervalued or pushed aside, but postulated

is

cosmos as a whole and maintained,

is

complete ^^hole. of the

of the perplexing

solution

And

Normalists

upon any

that

difi*ering result

of the

one

its

parts.

The

the difference between the science

and Abnormalists

undeniable difference, sciousness

all

your science has to form a

is

not founded

of investigation, but upon the

which distinguishes the

from

that

self-con-

of the other.

Free

we defend against the attack of her tyrannical twin-sister. The Normalist tries to do us violence even in our own consciousness. He science

tells us,

is

the stronghold

that our self-consciousness

must needs be uniform

with his own, and that every thing else

we imagine we

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