Calvinism a life-system - pagina 178

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

174 needed

productive scientific investigation, do not

a

in

come to us by proof, but are established in our judgment by our inner conception and given zvith our self-

On

consciousness.

has in this

itself

other hand every kind of faith

the

an impulse to speak

In order to do

out.

These words

needs words, terms, expressions.

it

must be the embodiment of thoughts. Those thoughts must be connected reciprocally not only with themand as soon as

eternity,

consciousness, is

between

cosmos,

the

exists

it

moves by means of an

potencies to condition

its

ideal.

abnormal,

is

conflict

to-day

normal or abnormal condition. it

forth in our

not

is,

but between the assertion,

science,

as

the

that

follows,

it

and

faith

beams

faith thus

need of science and demoiastration

the

Hence

born.

that

our surroundings, with time and

but also with

selves

But

If

eternal

it

if

then

is

is

either

in

a

normal, then

evolution from

the cosmos in

its

its

present

a disturbance has taken

place in the past, and only a regenerating power can

warrant

it

no other

the final attainment of is

the

principal

its

antithesis,

goal.

This,

and

which separates

the thinking minds in the domain of Science into two opposite battle-arrays.

The Normalists natural

data,

identical -with

do not

interpretation

the

until

rest

of

utmost vigour,

reckon

to

refuse

all

at

with

other than

they have found an

phenomena, and oppose

every turn of the

line, all

attempts to break or to check the logical inferences of cause and

effect.

Therefore, they also honour faith in

a formal sense but only as

mony

far as

with the general data of the

it

remains in har-

human

consciousness

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