Calvinism a life-system - pagina 154

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

150 in

proving the firm order of things

Lombroso,

and

themselves

on

Calvinistic

human

in

Hfe with

ahnost mathematical demonstrative force.

astonishing,

entire school of criminalists, place

his

record

in

And

lines.

respect

this

the

latest

moving on

as

hypothesis, that the

laws of heredity and variation, which control the whole organization

domain of human "the

common

abstain

at

by them,

by

systems

much

so

all

or

least

at

in the

has already been accepted as

life,

creed"

present from any

philosophical theses,

admit of no exception

of nature,

I

either of these

criticism

of these is

Though

evolutionists.

hypo-

naturalistic

very clearly demonstrated

that the entire development of science in our

age presupposes a cosmos, which does not

fall

a prey

the freaks of chance, but exists and develops from

to

one principle, according to a firm order, aiming at one fixed

This

plan.

is

a

claim,

which

as

is,

it

clearly

appears, diametrically opposed to Arminianism, and in

complete harmony with Calvinistic

one Supreme

will

in

things, subjecting

them

them towards

preestablished

a

that there

belief,

God, the cause of to fixed ordinances

plan.

all

is

existing

and directing

Calvinists

have

never thought that the idea of the cosmos lay in God's foreordination decrees,

but

as

they

an

aggregate

have always

of

conjoined

loosely

maintained,

that

the

whole formed one organic programme of the entire creation

and the

looks upon

entire

history.

it

and

as

a Calvinist

God's decree as the foundation and origin

of the natural laws, in the in

And

same manner

also

he finds

the firm foundation and the origin of every moral spiritual

law;

both these, the natural as well as

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