Calvinism a life-system - pagina 205

CALVINISM AND ART.

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be in a different sense, of the Renaissance also be

confessed,

but

the

in

that

circles

Renaissance

will

did not take

it

of

and

civil

its

social

be considered more

almost

all

Now

life.

the

Roman

art-

that a style, which borrowed

first,

from

motives

its

must

fully in the third

part of this lecture, but with respect to the style I here answer,

it

religion,

rise in

Greek

can scarcely

art

boast of an independent character; and secondly, that,

Rome, the

in

State-idea

Religious

the

emperors,

that when,

reached

consider

to

State and

of the

the period

in

of prosperity while

height

its

identified with

were burned to Divus Augustus,

sacrifices

torical

idea,

art

had become so

is

it

unhis-

any longer as

Religion

being at that time separate spheres.

from

apart

But',

historic

this

questioned, whether such an

outcome,

could have originated outside of Religion.

a style demands

sudh

and emotional quently

a

carries

its

effect

and which

within,

from

conse-

this spiritual centre to

Not of course

Intellectual art

is

against the very nature of

tual, ethical, religious

a sphere of

its

own.

do not allow the is

of

as

though

no

art,

and the

put forth by Hegel to draw art from thoughts,

militated

It

rise

world of art ever could be the product of

intellectual thought. effort

The

of a people, which shall dominate

outermost circumference. national

may be

a central motive in the mental

whole existence from

the

its

life

it

all-embracing art-style ever

and

aesthetic

art.

life

These spheres run

derivation of one

Our

each

intellec-

commands

parallel

and

from the other.

the central emotion, the central impulse, and the

central

animation,

in

the

mystical root of our being,

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