Calvinism - pagina 183

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. world-view were utterly

Christian

I79

untenable.

In

this

manner the Normalists first began to suspect, and then became conscious of their fundamental opposition. Every possible

available in this reaction against the

position,

hitherto prevalent conviction, has been since that time

by turn developed

a special philosophical system.

into

compared with each

These systems, divergent,

if

were however

agreement

secured

the

sciences

followed,

process

of the

assent

the

in their denial of

After these philosophical systems had

the abnormal.

introduce

perfect

in

other,

men, the several

leading

and were immediately

new hypothesis of an

solicitous to

normal

infinite

as the starting-point of their special investiga-

tions in the

domains of jurisprudence, medicine, natural

science and history.

Then fied

for a

moment

surely, public opinion

with sudden fright, but since the mass of the people

lacked personal

this

faith,

literal sense the

personal

liis

who sang first

short

faith,

to

time

felt

man who

while

he

is

conquered

to the abnormalist view

in

And

by

a

only

virtue of

refused to join in the chorus of those,

inclined

the tent

"modern thought", and to

anathematize

of mysticism.

theologians

apologetically,

was

reluctance

in its leading centre.

the praises of

brunt,

retiring

a

world

who adhered

Tie,

had

Normalists

of the

life-view

superficial

Within a quarter of a century

only of short duration. the

was stupe-

tried

to

all

at the

science,

a

is

true,

for

defend

their

cause

It

but this defense might be compared to tries

to

adjust

a

unconscious of the

itself is tottering

on

its

crooked window-frame, fact that the building

foundations.

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