Calvinism a life-system - pagina 183

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. world-view were utterly

Christian

179

untenable.

In

this

manner the Normalists first began to suspect, and then became conscious of their fundamental opposition. Every possible

position,

available in this reaction against the

hitherto prevalent conviction, has been since that time

by turn developed into a These systems, divergent,

special philosophical system.

were however

agreement

perfect

in

the abnormal. the

sciences

followed,

introduce

compared with each

other,

in their denial of

After these philosophical systems had

secured

process

if

assent

the

of the leading men, the several and were immediately solicitous to

new hypothesis of an

normal

infinite

as the starting-point of their special investiga-

tions in the

domains of jurisprudence, medicine, natural

science and history.

Then

for a

moment

sudden

fied with

lacked personal

surely, public opinion

this

faith,

superficial reluctance was Within a quarter of a century

only of short duration. the hfe-view literal

he,

of the

had

Normalists

sense the world in

who adhered

was stupe-

but since the mass of the people

fright,

its

conquered

to the abnormalist view

in

And

leading centre.

by

a

only

virtue of

his personal faith, refused to join in the chorus of those,

who sang first

retiring

short

the praises of

brunt, to

time

felt

the tent

man who

while

he

is

to

anathematize

of mysticism.

theologians

apologetically,

a

inclined

"modern thought", and

tried

to

all

at the

science,

a

is

true,

for

defend

their

cause

It

but this defense might be compared to tries

to

adjust

unconscious

itself is tottering

on

its

a

of the

crooked window-frame, fact that the building

foundations.

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