Calvinism a life-system - pagina 224

CALVINISM AND ART.

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development

historical

its

To

Almighty God, humanity

this

is

to

end

He

sorts of life-utterances,

all

the

glorify

name

of

has ordained for this

and among

these,

Art

reveals

ordinances of creation which neither science, nor

politics,

occupies

art

nor

a

religious

light.

own

She

is

independant place.

quite

even

nor

life,

a plant that grows and blossoms upon her

and without denying that

root,

bring to

can

revelation

have required

this plant

may

of a temporary support, and

help

the

that in early times the church lent this prop in a very excellent

way,

yet

the Calvinistic principle

demanded

that this plant of earth should at length acquire strength to in

stand

alone

and vigorously to extend

And

every direction.

branches

thus Calvinism confessed that,

inasmuch as the Greeks had

first

discovered the laws

which the growth of this art-plant

by

its

is

governed, they

therefore remain entitled to bind every further growth

and every new impulse of sical

Not

development.

art to their

first,

their clas-

for the sake of stopping short

with Greece, or of adopting her Paganistic forni without criticism.

Art,

like

Science, cannot afford to tarry at

her origin, but must ever develop herself more richly, at

the

been

same time purging

herself of whatsoever

falsely intermingled with the earlier plant.

law of her growth and

life,

when once

remain the fundamental law of art

had

Only, the

discovered,

must

for ever; a law, not

imposed upon her from without, but sprung from her

own

nature.

And

so,

and cleaving to every inward liberty.

strength

by loosening every unnatural tie, tie that is natural, art must find the

required

for

the

maintenance of her

Calvin therefore does not estrange

art, science,

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