Calvinism - pagina 46

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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

42 that

direct the course of future events

was to

the rise of Calvinism

Thus

reached.

tJiis

and

;

In

stadium appears to have been

every forward movement had gone

far

Church or Science,

forth from the authorities in State,

In Cal-

and from thence had descended to the people.

vinism on the other hand the peoples themselves stand out

own,

their

and

life

broad ranks and from a spontaneity of

their

in

rise

its

ivith the

the leader in public advances, but in Switzerland, the

Huguenots,

the

created

Belgium,

in

and also

Scotland

in

in

Even when

They seemed

impetus.

in

oppressed,

some

their

among

Netherlands,

in

to have matured

which they were of age.

cases, as in the Netherlands, the

moment took an

a

for

the

still

America the peoples themselves

to have reached the period in

nobility

social

Lutheran countries the magistrate was

In

people.

had

Calvinism

conditions.

form of

a higher

forward to

press

activity

ended

heroic stand for the in

nothing,

and the

people alone, by undaunted energy, broke the barrier,

and among these

it

was the "common

folk" to

whose

heroic initiative William the Silent, as he himself acknowledges,

owed the success of

Hence of

as a central

humanity

his undertaking.

phenomenon

Calvinism

is

not

in the

only

development

entitled

an

to

honourable position by the side of Paganistic, Islamistic

and Roman istic forms, since peculiar

principle

like these

it

dominating the whole of

also meets every required condition for the

of

represents a

human development

to

a

life,

but

it

advancement

higher stage.

And

yet

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