Calvinism - pagina 172

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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to unveil itself as the third great potentate, at the side

pope and the emperor.

of the

On

the contrary the repubhcan character of the uni-

demanded the exchision of

versity

But

pirations.

who had

Caesar,

domain of

was

it

just

partitioned

all

monarchical as-

natural

as

among themselves

to watch with suspicion the

life,

Pope and

for

the entire

growth of

a third, entirely independent power, and to try everything in order to subject the universities to their rule. If

such

stand as

then

the

all

existing universities

plan would never have succeeded.

a

often the case

is

the

allured

had taken a firm

among

But

free corporations, competition

weaker to seek support from without and

so they turned for help to the Vatican.

This compelled

the stronger Universities to follow, and rather soon the

favour of the Pope was universally coveted, in order to secure special privileges.

mental

evil.

Herein

is

found the funda-

In this wise Science surrendered

pendent character.

It

was overlooked, that the

its

inde-

intellectual

reception into, and the reflection from, our consciousness,

cosmos

of the

wherein

all

science

sphere entirely different from evil

consists,

the Church.

forms a

Now

this

has been checked by the Reformation, and mastered

especially

by Calvinism.

the Church

oned,

itself

Formally mastered, because

in

the monarchical hierarchy being aband-

and under the

a republican and

monarchical authority of Christ

federal

organisation having been in-

troduced, a spiritual Church-head, whose task

it

would

be, to rule

over universities, no longer existed for our

Calvinists.

For Lutherans such a

hand

in

the ruler of the land,

visible

whom

head was at

they honoured as

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