Calvinism - pagina 43

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

whom

common, at once reveals the with Mahometans the commingling

intermarriage was

that especially

fact

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of blood was even greater than with their predecessors.

When

the leadership of the world passed into the hands

of the

Romanic

itself

in

cases

the

nations, the

Portugal and France.

Spain,

Italy,

same phenomenon presented In these

Aborigines were generally Basques or Celts,

by the Germanic tribes, the East- Goths and Lombards, so

the Celts in turn being overcome

and even as

in Italy

in

Spain the West-Goths,

in

France the Franks

and to

veins,

owed

nations

Thus itself

the

in

into debilitated

wonderful rejuvenescence the Romanic

of nations the

which so often

how

new blood

instilled

their vigour until far into the

life

1

6th century.

same phenomenon repeats

strikes the Historian as a result of

marriages

international see

this

Portugal the Swabians and

in

among

princely families, as

we

the Habsburgs and the Bourbons, the Oranges

and the HohenzoUern,

for instance,

have been, century

after century, productive of a host of

statesmen and heroes.

The

most remarkable

raiser of stock has

aimed at

the same effect in the crossing of different breeds, and botanists harvest large profits

of

life

with

plants

;

and by

by obeying itself it is

the

not

same law

difficult to

perceive that the union of natural powers, divided different tribes,

ment.

To

among

must be productive of a higher develop-

this

it

should be added that the history of

our race does not aim at the improvement of any single tribe,

whole, in

but

at

the

development of mankind taken as a

and therefore needs

commingling of blood

Now in fact history shows among whom Calvinism flourished most

order to attain

that the nations

this

its

end.

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