Calvinism - pagina 178

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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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 ivith our self-

On

conscioiLsness.

has in this

itself

other hand every kind of faith

the

an impulse to speak out.

In order to do

must be the embodiment of thoughts.

must be connected reciprocally

and

eternity,

between that

as

exists

it

moves by means of an

potencies to

condition

its

abnormal,

is

place in

the

warrant

it

no other

ideal.

But

If

eternal if

the thinking

v

then

it

is

is

either

in

a

normal, then

evolution from

its

its

a disturbance

has taken

present

and only a regenerating power can

past,

the

not

is,

the cosmos in

the final attainment of is

conflict

to-day

normal or abnormal condition. it

forth in our

but between the assertion,

science,

cosmos,

the

that

follows,

it

and

faith

the

beams

need of science and demonstration

the

Hence

born.

not only with them-

as soon as faith thus

consciousness,

Those thoughts

our surroundings, with time and

but also with

selves

is

These words

needs words, terms, expressions.

it

principal

minds

in the

its

antithesis,

This,

goal.

and

which separates

domain of Science

into

two

opposite battle-arrays.

The Normalists natural

data,

identical

with

do

refuse

not

interpretation

the

rest

of

to

reckon

until all

with

other than

they have found an

phenomena, and oppose

utmost vigour, at every turn of the

line, all

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

eftect.

Therefore, they also honour faith in

a formal sense but only as

mony

far as

with the general data of the

it

remains

human

in har-

consciousness

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