Calvinism a life-system - pagina 63

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. and Agnosticism

ever

is

more loudly acclaimed

On

solution of the great enigma.

and of

feeling, navigation is

activity

the

59

made

duty-free,

becoming the only touch-stone

is

Metaphysics

but

gold;

religious

drowning us

whom

Christ

contraband.

avoided

is

And

these very scholars

although

honour

love God, not only with

contrary,

ivitJi

all

rejected

is

same

that

"Thou

thy heart and with

all thy mind''\ yet they,

venture to dismiss our mind, or

unfit for use, in this

as

itself

as a religious

genius has taught us most emphatically:

strength, but also

ethical

swamp. Whatsoever announces

in a

irreligious

and

for testing

with the pretension of an axiomatic dogma, as

as the

the rivers of sentiment

shalt

thy

all

on the

intellect,

holy domain, and as not

as

fulfilling

the requirements of a religious organ.

Thus the

religious

of our being, but

and our also

will,

in

Religion

in

excluded from science, and

is

ber, the cell for prayer,

life

mystics of our

own

And

of

By

his

du

world,

is

that, in

is

brings

us

it;

life.

Kant

The

many different human life, is

and, far from the thriving

understood to hide

and almost private This

sollst,

times banish religion to the retreats the result

placed alongside of

the

authority

henceforth the inner cham-

;

ways, religion, once the central force of

now

its

the sphere of religion to the ethical

of sentiment.

life

and the secrecy of the heart should

exclusive dwelling place.

its

limited

whole

consequence the same/^r/Z^/f //rt:r^f-

from the domain of public

be

in the

consequently also the sphere of religious

must assume

ter.

organ being found, not

part of it, being confined to our feelings

itself in

a distant

retreat.

naturally

to the third characteristic

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