Calvinism - pagina 249

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. gleam of the

The

ideal.

of

fire

245

higher enthusiasm

all

has been quenched, only the dead embers remain. midst

the

weariness of

of the

what can

life,

the disappointed from taking refuge in suicide of the wholesome influence of

stimulated and over-exerted

till

restrain

Deprived

}

the brain

rest,

In

is

over-

the asylums are no longer

Whether property be becomes a more and more

adequate for housing the insane. not synonymous with

mooted question. That

seriously

and marriage

more

theft,

on

less binding,

an

is

ought to be freeer

life

being accepted more and

The cause

proposition.

established

of

monogamy is no longer worth fighting for, since polygamy and polyandry are being systematically glorified in

products of the reahstic school of art and

all

harmony with

In

rature.

declared

superfluous

But

art

of

art,

ideal

its

cates

the

temporal

above worth,

because

all,

but because

and shut

The

the bells of eternity.

make

whole view

the

And

practical.

of

is

renders

life

it

in

and

time and

tendency

concrete,

social

and

for

is

to

concentrated,

out of this modernized private

emerges a type of

intoxi-

ears to the tolling of

irrepressible life

gloomy.

for the sake

pleases

live

their

of course

religion

demand, not

in

is

it

Thus people

senses.

things,

this,

lite-

life

there

political life characterized

by a decadence of parliamentarism, by an ever stronger desire

for a dictator,

by

a sharp conflict between pau-

perism and capitalism, whilst heavy armaments on land

and on

sea,

even at the price of financial ruin, become the

ideal of these powerful states

whose craving

for territorial

expansion threatens the very existence of the weaker nations.

Gradually the conflict between the strong and

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