Calvinism - pagina 273

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. But before

end.

continues to

question

cordingly at

what

or

at

am

nevertheless that one

press

for

an answer, which ac-

aiming

in the

maintenance

the

me

Thereunto allow

word

another

feel

namely,

shall not refuse to face, the question

I

I

I

close,

I

269

of

end the

:

abandonment

at the

from

differs

in

it

election.

word Election

to contrast with this

that

of

doctrine

a single letter.

Our generation turns a deaf ear to Election, but grows madly enthusiastic over Selection. How then may we formulate the tremendos problem that

hidden behind

lies

these two words, and in what particular do the solutions

problem, as represented by these two, almost

of this

formules,

identical

fundamental

Why

question:

is

not

exists in

one

all

The problem concerns

differ?

Whence

Whence

alike.?

state,

another

without differentiatio

n,

in

are is

the it

another

and no

the

differences?

that one thing

There

?

differentiation

is

no

life

without

The perception of difference the very source our human consciousness, the causative principle of

inequality.

of all

that

exists

mainspring

of

and grows and develops, all

live

and

thought.

justified in asserting that in the

may

be reduced to

differences

of

,?

Whence

existence,

concretely,

rose

if

brate,

if

therefore

end every other problem

one problem

:

Whence

of genesis, of consciousness.-*

are those

To

put

it

you were a plant you would rather be ;

if

insect,

bird, eagle rather

lion

am

I

the dissimilarity, the heterogeneity

is

mushroom

than

spider;

this

in short' the

rather than

butterfly

than owl;

if

rather

than

a higher verte-

hyena; and again, being man,

rich rather than poor, talented rather than dullminded,

of the

Aryan

race

rather

than Hottentot or Kaffer.

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