Calvinism - pagina 274

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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Between

all

tiation.

Everywhere

tween

these there

one

the

then

the

such differences as involve

When

preference.

whence posed

is

kingdom,

almost every instance, tears the dove,

two creatures

these

be-

and that too

;

from each other?

question

in

the

among men,

in

all

This

lite,

is

the

and animal

vegetable social

thus op-

are

different

and

to,

supreme

one

in

other

hawk rends and

the

that

it

differences

differences,

and

being

wide differen-

differentiation,

is

and

it

by

is

means of the theory of Selectio7i that our present age attempts to solve this problem of problems. Even in the single

cell

The

elements.

gain

stored

is

should

the

difference

struggle

Now

posits differences,

it

stronger overcomes the weaker, and the

up

in a

weaker

will

weaker and stronger

higher potency of being.

maintain

still

be manifest

its

subsistence,

Or, the

in the further course of the

itself.

the blade of grass

is

not conscious of

the spider goes on entrapping the

fly,

this,

and

the tiger killing

the stag, and in those cases the weaker being does not

account to

itself for its

misery.

But we men are clearly

conscious

of these differences, and

question

cannot

be

evaded,

by

us therefore the

whether

theory

the

of

Selection be a solution calculated to reconcile the weaker,

the less richly endowed creature, with will

be acknowledged that

incite

to

a

more

its

in itself this

existence.

theory can but

furious struggle, with a lasciate ogni

speranza^ voi che'ntrate for the weaker being. the ordinance of fate that the weaker shall the

stronger,

struggle

can

It

Against

succumb

to

according to the system of election, no avail.

The

reconciliation,

not springing

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