Calvinism a life-system - pagina 172

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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

of the pope and the emperor.

On

the contrary the republican character of the uni-

demanded the exclusion of

versity

But

pirations.

domain of a

was

it

who had

Caesar,

just

partitioned

as

all

monarchical as-

natural

among

Pope and

for

themselves the entire

growth of

to watch with suspicion the

life,

third, entirely

independent power, and to try every-

thing in order to subject the universities to their rule. If

as

is

existing universities had taken a firm

then

the

all

such a

stand

plan would never have succeeded.

often the case

the

allured

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

science

all

consists,

sphere entirely different from the Church. evil

forms a

Now

this

has been checked by the Reformation, and mastered

especially

by Calvinism.

the Church

oned,

itself

Formally mastered, because

and under the monarchical authority of Christ

a republican and federal organisation having been troduced, a spiritual Church-head, whose task be, to rule over universities,

Calvinists.

hand

in

the monarchical hierarchy being aband-

in

no longer existed

For Lutherans such a

the ruler of the land,

visible

whom

it

in-

would

for

our

head was at

they honoured as

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