Calvinism - pagina 115

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

any one should

if

Ill

doubt whether

still

or

the

not,

American revolution was homogeneous with that of Paris, this doubt is fully set at rest, by the bitter fight, in remains, as the

German

Von

historian

Holtz stated

American revolution borrowed

the

that

madness would

(^'Mere

i)

energy from Rousseau and himself expressed

his writings.")

it

impelling

its

Or

be to say

as

Hamilton

he considered "the French

that

it,

it:

America

Schriften einen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung in

ausgeubt haben,"

it

sagen dass die Rousseauschen

ware Thorheit zu

^'Es

Therefore

between Jefferson and Hamilton.

1793,

Revolution to be no more akin to the American Revoluthe faithless wife in a French novel

than

tion,

like

is

the Puritan matron in New-England." 2)

The French Revolution

is

in principle distinct

from

all

these national revolutions, which were undertaken with

praying

lips

and with trust

French Revolution ignores God.

Von Holtz,

1)

z'on

John

Morse,

F.

founding of

the

801)

in another letter, quoted

Boston

1892,

p.

256:

Boston

Jefferson,

Hamilton proposed

"A

Convention,

the

sword of fanaticism extended

of Liberty;

harbingers to prostrate

that

I

am

what was

who were

glad

to

147.

In a

Bayard (April

and wrote

submit

to force a political creed

the arms of France as the

invited

to

when

behold the hand of rapacity outstretched

I

to

and ravish the monuments of religious worship,

the cause

Stateit

and heard with loud applause;

when

citizens,

It

by Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton, "When I find the doctrines of Atheism openly

Parisian

upon

p.

in a letter to

the

see

1883,

Christian Constitutional Society",

advanced in I

opposes God.

I p. 96.

Thomas

positively Christian sense 1

It

Verfassnng und Deniocraiie der Vereinigten

America, Dusseldorf. 1873

2)

The

help of God.

in the

believe,

that

there

of America and

is

7io

the cause

I

acknowledge,

real resemblance

of France'K

between

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