Calvinism a life-system - pagina 237

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

we

Consequently,

ing influence.

are physically stronger

We

than the preceding generation.

combating the defects and

in

and

our

bodily

her

achievements.

afflict

marvel

at

tangible

of

side

life,

holds

life

233

And

live longer.

infirmities that threaten

surgical

In

science

the

brief,

makes us material,

out the fairest of promises

for the future.

And

yet discontent makes itself heard, and the thinkmind cannot suppress its misgivings for, however

ing

;

one

high

may

value the material things, they do not

Our

out the round of our existence as men.

fill

sonal

life

as

men and

citizens subsists

per-

not in the comforts

that surround us, nor in the body, which serves us as

a

with

link

internally

we how

us

;

and

the hypertrophy

of thought and

were

science

is

more

and

spiritual.

consciousness

painfully

Not

life

as

reflection, the arts of

On

abeyance. brilliant in

knowledge

universal circles,

in

more

of our external

atrophy of the

letters,

in this inner

more and

becoming

are

serious ties

the outward world, but in the spirit that

actuates

in

seated

more deeply

being,

Japan,

for

are

laid,

is

kindled,

where

widening

instance,

is

al-

But even Personality

the hidden recesses of our

where character

flame of enthusiasm dations

in

poetry and

constantly

in

the intellect does not constitute the mind.

inner

the facul-

the contrary, empirical

most dazzled by her too-rapid conquests.

is

results in a if

her attainments than ever,

spreads

civilization,

aware,

love's

is

formed,

whence the

where the moral founblossoms bud, whence

spring consecration and heroism, and where in the sense for

the Infinite,

our time-bound existence reaches out

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