Calvinism a life-system - pagina 252

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

248 or

scholarly

and

occupation,

mysticism,

falling

in

themselves

set

with this altruism task

the

of

so

metamorphosing the Christ that he might continue from the throne of humanity,

glitter

modernized human heart.

of the

ideal

by

inspired

and inspiring by

sincerity

these

endeavours

down

to Ritschl.

may

to

the highest

as

Each and

all

their ideal intent,

be traced from Schleiermacher

who would look down upon such men would only dishonour himself. Much He, therefore,

we ought

rather

ored

them

to thank

for

women

those

what they endeav-

of noble aspirations,

to

save,

also

who by

their

character-novels, written in an elevated

Christian

have counteracted

spirit,

much

so

that was

and have fostered so many precious germs.

base,

fraught

Spiritism,

received

its

with errour though

impulse

it

Even

be, has often

from the alluring hope that the

contact with the eternal world, destroyed by criticism, thus

could

be

reestablished

Unfortunately,

visions.

ethical dualism

phoses

this

might

however boldly conceived

be,

it

this

and whatever bold metamor-

mysticism might indulge

lurked behind

in,

there always

the naturalistic, rationalistic system of

thought which the

had devised.

intellect

the

normal character of

the

abnormalism

ligion,

through the medium of

of

our

They

extolled

cosmology over against

their

and the Christian

belief;

being abnormalistic in principle and

its

re-

mode

of

manifestation, inevitably lost ground, to such an extent

that

some of our

fessing

that

they

best

men

preferred

did not shrink from pro-

not

only

Spiritism

but

Mohammedanism, and Schopenhauer even Buddhism the

old

Evangelical

Faith.

It

is

to

true that the entire

.

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