Calvinism - pagina 157

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. a

stamp on

scientific

connected with this

whole existence.

their

and

this

in

entrusted to

53

Intimately-

also the fact that they never fav-

is

oured the so-called primacy of the in their practical

1

They demanded,

will.

the bridle of a clear consciousness,

life,

consciousness the leadership could not be

humour

or whim, to fancy or chance, but

only to the majesty of the highest principle, wherein they found

the explanation

which their whole

I

love

leave

for

science,

was consecrated.

life

my

now

of their existence and to

point, that Calvinism fostered

first

order to proceed to the second,

in

that Calvinism restored to science to

its

domain.

say that cosmical science originated

Roman

world

that

;

the

in

in

I

mean

the Graeco-

ages the cosmos

middle

vanished behind the horizon to draw the attention of all

the distant sights of future

to

life,

and that

it

was

Calvinism which,

without losing sight of the spiritual,

a

of the cosmic sciences.

led

to

rehabilitation

were

forced

taste

of Greece with

blindness

its

and the middle ages with but

things,

certainly

with

every child of

for things eternal,

their blindness for cosmical

mystic

their

we

between the beautiful cosmic

choose

to

If

love

God on

for

Christ,

his death -bed

then

would

Thomas and Aristotle. The

tender the palm to Bernard of Clairvaux and

Aquinas rather than to Heraclitus pilgrim,

who wanders through

cerning himself about to

us

a

more

who sought

ideal

its

the world without con-

preservation and destiny^ presents

figure

religion in the

than the Greek worldling,

worship of Venus, or Bacchus,

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