Calvinism - pagina 173

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. "first

Bishop",

kept

Church

spheres

might

and

A

derive

separate

State

two

as

but

ordinance,

different

doctor's diploma, in their system, significance

its

from pubhc opinion,

from papal consent, nor from an

neither

69

but nor for Calvinistic nations, which

of Hfe.

not

1

from

solely

ecclesiastical

the scientific character of

the institution.

To

this

must be added a second

Without regard-

point.

ing the Papal auspices over the University as such, the

Church exercised pressure upon Science by harassing, accusing and persecuting the innovators on account of and published

their expressed opinions

Rome

writings.

did oppose, not only in the church, what was right, but

beyond

also

boundaries, the freedom of the word.

its

Truth alone, not in

society

error,

had the right

and truth was expected

by conquering error

not

arraigning

liberty of Science, because ions,

which

jurisdiction,

could

circumstances

mettle

wings clipped

conflicts,

and

;

he,

;

and

if

itself

its

ground,

conflict,

but by

This impaired the

submitted

be

not

opposition,

defied

it

settled

the judgment

to

who shrunk from to

honest

in

propagate

keep

to

at the bar of justice.

it

to

of the

scientific quest-

by

ecclesiastical

civil

He

Court.

kept silence or submitted

who

being of more heroic

was punished by having

he nevertheless tried to

clipped wings, had his neck wrung.

He who

fly

his

with

published

a book, betraying too bold opinions, was considered a criminal,

and the

and came scaffold.

at last in contact with the Inquisition

The

right of free inquiry

was unknown.

Firmly believing, that everything knowable and worthy of being known,

was known

already, and

known

firmly

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