Calvinism a life-system - pagina 124

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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knows no other

the law of Moses, which

ment but

The

and

justice,

in the

has to care for the people as an

in order that its unity

not

may grow

of

high above

all these,

government with

unit, partly at

of

all

it

its .ym^^:/

spheres, but that,

From

this arises all friction

always inclined,

is

and mechanically to arrange life

is

sorts of organic

For the government

other hand social

this

all

mechanical authority, to invade social

its

subject

from

may

the w^^/z^wzV^'/ unifying iorce of the

observable.

is

clashing.

arise,

life

home,

lest the national

The consequence

that on the one hand, in a people,

phenomena

second place

ever deeper and

be disturbed, and partly abroad,

existence suffer harm.

and

command.

highest duty of the government remains therefore

unchangeably that of it

capital punish-

the magistrate and at his

by

that

life,

to

But on the

it.

always endeavours to shake off the

authority of the government, just as this endeavour at

the present

and

in

time again culminates in social-democracy of which aim at nothing less

anarchism, both

than the total overthrow of the institution of authority.

But leaving these two extremes alone, that

all

healthy

life

of

it

will

be admitted

people or state has ever been

the historical consequence of the struggle between these

two powers.

It

was the so

called '•'constitutional govern-

ment", which endeavoured more firmly to regulate the

mutual relation

of these

Calvinism was the

proportion as

it

first to

two.

take

And its

in

stand.

this

struggle

For

just in

honoured the authority of the magistrate,

by God, did it lift up that second sovereignty, which had been implanted by God in the social spheres, instituted

in accordance with the ordinances of creation.

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