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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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was ever the

itself

life

much

There was too

much

Scotch

the

— were

Calvinism

Calvinistic

More-

gained the

EngUsh and

by nature not very philosophically

Especially at that time,

predisposed.

devote

suffer to

Swiss, the Dutch, the

the

as

endeavours.

its

in the field of battle.

among whom

nations

— such

do and to

to

and

practice at the stake

day,

object of

What was dominant was

time to study.

over the

first

among

life

those

was spontaneous and void of calculation; and only later on has Calvinism in its parts become a subject of that special study by which historians and nations

theologians have traced the relation between Calvinistic

phenomena and the all-embracing unity It

of

its

principle.

can even be said that the need of a theoretical and

systematical

study of so incisive and comprehensive a

phenomenon

of

only arises when

Hfe,

vitality

first

its

has been exhausted, and when for the sake of maintaining in the future,

itself

drawing of

the

in

you

it

add

the

its

is

compelled to greater accuracy

boundary the

that

fact

lines.

stress

of

And

if

to this

reflecting

our

existence as a unity in the mirror of our consciousness, is

stronger

far

was before, present,

the

is

it

our philosophical age than

in

care

for

to a deeper study of Calvinism.

the future, compel us In the

Church everybody knows what he

Roman

lives for,

clear consciousness he enjoys the fruit of

of

life

of a

Even

system. conviction

Protestantism

without

aim

of

alone or

in life

ever

seen that both the needs of

readily

and the

it

Catholic

because with

Rome's unity

Islam you find the same power

dominated

wanders about

direction,

moving

by one in

principle.

the wilderness

hither and thither.

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