Calvinism - pagina 238

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

234

unto the very gates of eternity.

we hear on

of personaHty that

seat

It

all

plaint of empoverishment, degeneracy

The prevalence of a

rise

of this

spirit

the

of his

of

fields

show

force

social

theory

this fatal Sirocco It

life.

is

true,

even

but

may

what

still

give us offence

else

has scorched

Tolstoi's efforts

his

religious

his

is

by

demand

Friedrich Wilhelm,

his sacrilegious

for the

(over-man), but the cry of despair

''''(J

tually pining away.

What

mockery,

ebermenscJC'

wrung from the

of humanity by the bitter consciousness that

it

is

heart spiri-

Social-democracy also but

is

one gigantic protest against the insufficiency

of the

Even Anarchism and Nihilism

existing order of things.

but too plainly

and

a protest along the whole line against

the spiritual degeneracy of our race.

Nietzsche

petrifaction.

pessimistic doctrine reveals to

of character, is

and

of malaise explains the

state

what a deplorable extent already

com-

sides the

Arthur Schopenhauer's; and the

like

wide acceptance

regard to this

in

is

demonstrate that there are thousands

upon ten thousands who

would rather demolish and

annihilate everything, than continue to bear the burden

of

present

"•""Decadenz

The German author

conditions.

der

Volker''

of

the

descries nothing in the future

but decay and social ruin. Salisbury recently

Even the sober-minded Lord spoke of peoples and states for whose

unceremonious burial preparations were already being made.

How often has

not the parallel been drawn between

our time and the golden age of the the

external

brilliancy of

life

Roman

empire,

when

likewise dazzled the eye,

notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other

verdict

than

"'rotten

to

the ver\- core".

And,

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