Calvinism - pagina 105

— CALVINISM AND TOLITICS. In

manner the

like

international cosmopolitan ende-

avours of the Social-democracy present, tion of union, an ideal,

which on

unattainable,

holy

concep-

very account charms

this

endeavouring to

the

as

in

authority,

this is

all

Nay

a sinful world.

all

high and

even Anarchy,

mechanical con-

together with the undoing of

and to encourage,

growth of a new organic say,

realize this

attempt to undo

among men,

nections

human

in

now and

ideal,

conceived

a

in their

even when we are aware that they try to reach the

us,

I

lOI

tie,

arising

in their stead, the

from nature

itself,

nothing but a looking backward after

lost paradise.

For indeed without

would have been neither

sin there

magistrate nor state-order but political ;

would have evolved from the police

life

;

life,

in its entirety,

itself,

after a patriarchal fashion,

of the family.

Neither bar of justice, nor

army, nor navy

nor

without sin

and thus every

would drop away, even as

conceivable in a world

is

rule all

and ordinance and law

control and assertion of

the power of the magistrate would disappear, were to its is

all

develop

own broken

itself,

normally and without hindrance, from

organic impulse. .''

life

Who

binds up, where nothing

Who uses crutches, where the limbs are sound

Every State-formation, every

assertion of the

>

power

of the magistrate, every mechanical means of compelling

order and of guaranteeing a safe course of life

is

therefore

always something unnatural; something, against which the deeper aspirations of our nature rebel; and which, on this

very account,

may become

the source both of a dreadful

abuse of power, on the part of those

who

exercise

it,

a contumacious revolt on the part the multitude.

and of

Thus

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