Calvinism a life-system - pagina 211

CALVINISM AND ART. ion,

we begin with

Calvin's last saying, viz., that art reveals

to us a higher reality than

You

20/

is

by

offered

this sinful world.

are familiar with the question, already mentionned,

whether art should imitate nature or should transcend Greece grapes were painted with such accuracy

In

it.

by

that birds were deceived to eat them.

And

highest

to

and

Herein

school.

often

forgotten

relations

exhibited

by idealists, that the by nature are and ever

too

all

forms

nature seemed the

this imitation of

Socratic

ideal

truth,

appearance and tried

their

the

must remain the fundamental forms and and an

actual reality,

all

art

a

play

wild

of fantasy.

opposition

empirical confines

the

purely

the

to

mitted by

mere

committed

is

scientists

should

empirical,

task to

its

same mistake

sounds,

deteriorates into

it,

But on the other hand

of art

interpretation

idealistic

listen to its

hover over

likes to

arbitrarily

relations of

which does not watch the

forms and motions of nature nor but

the

lies

be

as

often

imitation. in

justified

as

in

the

For then

art so often

when they confine

all

com-

their scientific

task to the mere observation, computation and accurate

report of the

For even as science has

facts.

phenomena

order, to the end that

and

so also

every

it

it

propagate nobler species of animals, than nature, herself, could produce,

the vocation of art, not merely to observe visible

by

and

artistically,

natural

enriched

man, enriched by the knowledge

may

thing

reproduce those

is

from

fruits,

of this order, flowers

to ascend

the investigation of their inherent

to

forms

this

audible, to

but

the

apprehend

much more

it,

and

to discover in

order of the beautiful, and,

higher kwowledge, to produce a beautiful

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