Calvinism a life-system - pagina 195

CALVINISM AND ART.

do not forget that the heights

I9I

real genius

of art seeks the

and

rather than the plains below,

of isolation

that our age, so poor in the production of real creative art,

deemed

is

of the of

past;

lead

to

that the

must

vulgus

my

nevertheless, in

homage

necessarily estimation,

the most injudicious aesthetical fanaticism stands

even

higher

far

corruption,

art-

admit,

I

profanum

the

splendid glow

the

at

itself

though

yea,

by

art

warm

to

than

Venus.

common

the

unholy prostration

and

practical age the

In

this

cold,

warmth of

this

devotion to art has kept alive

irreligious

of our

higher aspirations

an

for wealth, or

race

before the shrines of Bacchus and

soul,

many

which otherwise might

readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last

Thus you

century.

see,

do not underestimate the

I

present aesthetical movement.

But what

History should be discountenanced, place

to

it

movement

this

Calvinism

And

what

is

the

favor

when

therefore,

vinism

induced

in

do so by

rather keep

Sublime

I

my

art,

this

if

it

of equal

begged for

I

movement.

artistic

I

am

not

vulgarization

in

the least

of

art,

but

eyes fixed upon the Beautiful and the

in its eternal significance,

of the richest

make

plead the significance of Cal-

domain of

the

to

new

of this

of

mad endeavor

of the i6th century;

should be doing

I

in the light

the

than, or even to

higher

value with the religious

yet

is

gifts

of

God

to

and upon

art as

one

mankind.

Here, however, every student of history knows that 'I

founder upon a deeply-rooted prejudice. Calvin,

said,

was personally devoid of the

Calvinism

which

in

the

artistic instinct,

it

is

and

Netherlands proved guilty of

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