Calvinism - pagina 150

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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renown,

of their

the

lustre

for

science,

or

this love

going forth from Leyden, permeated the

You know the Boerhaves, You know

whole nation? the

you how

tell

Lipsii, the

that

Hemsterhuizen,

Holland

in

w^ere

invented the telescope, the microscope and the thermo-

meter; and thus empirical science, worthy of

made

was

possible.

an undeniable

It is

had

Calvinistic Netherlands

name,

its

that the

fact,

love for science and fostered

But the most evident, the m.ost convincing proof

it.

found

doubtless

is

To

University.

establishment

the

in

receive

as

the course

moment, when,

people,

in

whose very

in a fearful

of the world w^as

of the history

turned by your heroism

Leyden's

the highest reward a Uni-

versity of the Sciences in a struggle,

of

only conceivable

is

among

life-principle love for science

a is

involved.

And now

approach the principle

I

not enough to be acquainted with the

show you why love I

for

the

strongest

do not think

Calvinistic

motive

in

dogma

fact, I

must also

it

is

me

let

it

strange,

when

of predestination as

those days for the cultivation

of science in a higher sense.

misunderstanding

For

that Calvinism cannot but foster

is

And

science.

point to

the

it

itself.

But

first

order to prevent

in

explain what the term

"science" here means.

speak

I is

called

express that

it

human among you of

"sciences

mere empiricism

science as a whole, not of w^hat "sciences",

exactcs". in

itself

or

as

Especially

ever

is

the

do

French I

deny,

perfect science.

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