Calvinism - pagina 187

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

and these two cannot be

what

found

is

unconscious

normal;

lacking in

is

the

every

If,

therefore, is

impossibility,

Both,

such

erect

which

is

in their

You

Science the

claim

whole cosmos,

how

radical

data, given

and fundamental

of the perplexing

problem

is

not undervalued or pushed aside, but postulated

is

cosmos as a whole and maintained,

is

complete whole. of the

the

for

harmony with the fundamental own self-consciousness.

perceive immediately,

doomed

duty bound to

in

solution

it

will feel

edifice

scientific

Calvinistic

this

for

a

that

is,

both should agree, and that

that

honest men,

as

be

also the starting-point for

every endeavor to make them agree must be failure.

it

prwmm-

his

then the logical conclusion

scientist,

an

in his consciousness

consciousness

and hence must be

veriim^

is

own

man's

that

is

other has an experience both of a break

knowledge of the abnormal.

true

The one

other.

break and clings accordingly to the

of a

the

In the one

identical.

and of a change, and thus possesses the

83

that of the regenerate and the unregen-

consciousness: erate;

1

And

Normalists

upon any

that

all

its

parts.

The

your science has to form a

the difference between the science

and Abnormalists

is

not founded

differing result of investigation, but

upon the

undeniable difference, which distinguishes the self-consciousness

of the

one

from

that 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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