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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

14 itself

life

was ever the

object of

first

endeavours.

its

much to do and to suffer study. What was dominant was

There was too

much time

to

and

practice at the stake

day,

— such

the

Scotch

by nature not very

Especially at that time,

philosophically

among

life

was spontaneous and void of calculation

nations

only

More-

gained the

Calvinism

the Swiss, the Dutch, the English and

as

— were

predisposed.

Calvinistic

in the field of battle.

among whom

over the nations

to devote

on

later

of

subject

Calvinism

in

special study

by

has

that

and

become a

parts

its

those ;

whiclj historians and'

theologians have traced the relation between Calvinistic

phenomena and the all-embracing unity It

of

its

principle.

can even be said that the need of a theoretical and

systematical

study of so incisive and comprehensive a

phenomenon

of

only arises when

life,

when

has been exhausted, and in the future,

itself

drawing of

the

in

you

it

add

the

its

is

for the sake of maintaining

compelled to greater accuracy

boundary the

that

fact

vitality

first

its

And

lines.

stress

of

if

to this

reflecting

our

existence as a unity in the mirror of our consciousness, is

stronger

far

was

before,

the

present,

our philosophical age than

in is

it

and the

care

for

to a deeper study of Calvinism.

In the

Church everybody knows what he

life

of a

Even

system. conviction

Protestantism

without

aim

of

alone or

in

life

ever

the future, compel us

Roman

lives for,

clear consciousness he enjoys the fruit of

of

it

seen that both the needs of

readily

Catholic

because with

Rome's unity

Islam you find the same power

dominated

wanders about

direction,

moving

by one in

principle.

the wilderness

hither

and

thither,

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