Calvinism - pagina 42
six Stone-lectures
CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.
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and others which have intermingled. Thus on the one hand there are groups which have dominated exclusively their own inherent forces, and on the other hand groups which by commingling have crossed their
traits
with
those of other tribes, and thus have attained a higher perfection.
It is
noteworthy that the process of human
development steadily proceeds with those groups whose historic characteristic
On
of blood.
upon our race secluded
life
in its isolation
at large.
itself,
manent impulse
we
not isolation but the commingling
the whole the Mongolian race has held
and
itself apart,
is
has bestowed no benefits
Behind the Himalayas a similar
and hence
failed to
to the outside world.
find that with the Scandinavians
impart any per-
Even
in
Europe
and Slavs there was
hardly
any intermingling of blood, and, consequently
having
failed to
part
little
On
the general development of
in
hand the
the other
Museums by show
that
Accadians
develop a richer type, they have taken
in
in
in
life.
our great still
Mesopotamia the Aryan element of the
mingled
the
from Babylon
the two languages of their inscriptions
Semitic-Babylonian that
tablets
human
land
itself ;
at
an
early period with the
and Egyptology leads us of the Pharaohs
we
to conclude
deal from the
beginning with a population produced by the mingling of two very different tribes.
the
one believes any longer
pretended race-unity of the Greeks.
well as in Italy
we
others.
In Greece as
deal with races of a later date
have intermingled with the
and
No
who
earlier Pelasgians, Etruscians
Islam seems to be exclusively Arabic, but
a study
of the spread
Persians,
Turks and other
of
Islamism
among
the Moors,
series of subjected tribes, with
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1899
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 279 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1899
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 279 Pagina's