Calvinism - pagina 275

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. from the

facts,

would therefore have to spring from the

But what

idea.

2/1

here the idea?

is

Is

not

it

this,

that,

have once become estabHshed,

where these

differences

and highly

differentiated

beings

appear, this

is

either

the result of chance, or else the necessary consequence

of blind

natural

suffering

humanity

suffering

by

Now, are we to believe that ever become reconciled to its

forces?

sitcJi

will

a solution

?

Nevertheless

progress of this theory of Selection; and

the

commend

it

admire

I

men who

the penetration and power of thought of the

it

welcome

I

Not, forsooth, on account of what

to us.

urges upon us as a truth

;

but because

it

has mustered

courage to attack once more the most fundam.ental of problems, and thus in point of profundity reaches

all

the

same depth

of

thought,

which Calvin boldly

to

descended.

For

this

is

precisely the high significance of the doctrine

of Election that, in this dogma, as long as three centuries

Calvinism

ago,

problem,

dared to face this same all-dominating

solving

however,

it,

not

blind selection stirring in unconscious

the

sovereign

and

visible

tence

of

camellia swine,

our

all

or

and,

own

cells,

sense of a

but honouring

of

invisible.

be

to

buttercup,

equally

the

Him Who created all things The determination of the exis-

choice

things

in

created,

nightingale

among men,

persons, whether one

is

of what or

crow,

is

to be

hart

or

the determination of to be

born as

girl or

boy, rich or poor, dull or clever, white or coloured or

even as Abel or Cain,

is

the most tremendous predesti-

nation conceivable in heaven or on earth; and see

it

taking place before our e}'es every day,

we and we still

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