Calvinism a life-system - pagina 202

CALVINISM AND ART.

198 sensual

religion

highest expression, finally helps

its

it

by these very means to cast off the fetters of sensuality for though it must be granted that at a lower level it is

only the aesthetical worship that liberates the

he

nevertheless,

highest

concludes,

emancipation",

that

for

realm of the invisible and

mann even more Divine

emphatically declares that inseparably

the

not

arts,

he

merely but

ture,

music,

more,

into

spiritual

itself

from

And

the

also

The

incapable

engage

says,

on

the

painting,

art,

that period,

the service

of the

and

sculpture

all

cult,

architec-

mimicry and the drama.

dance,

hand,

other

maturity,

art's

in

to

inclined to

still

is

Hart-

Originally

:

united

At

the aesthetic form.

in

itself

its

in the

And Von

because, at the lower stage. Religion lose

spirit,

not

is

only found

is

spiritual.

appeared

worship

art

"-'beautiful

the

Religion

develops

will

extricate

more

it

bandages, because art always remains the very essence of Religion.

of expressing

the final result of this historic process of separation,

he concludes, must

when

be, that Religion,

will rather entirely abstain

fully

matured,

from the stimulant by which

aesthetic pseudo-emotion intoxicated

centrate itself wholly and exclusively

in order to con-

it,

upon the quickening

of those emotions which are purely religious

And this

both Hegel and

Von Hartmann

Religion and Art have each

fundamental thought.

a life-sphere of their distinguishable

intertwined,

from

own

are correct in

;

each

these

other

may

at first

be scarcely

and therefore closely

but, with a richer development, these

spheres necessarily separate.

a cradle you can scarcely

tell

Looking which

is

at

two

two babies

in

boy or girl, but

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