Calvinism a life-system - pagina 250

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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grown to be the controlling feature of from Darwinism itself, whose central idea

the weak has arising

HYe,

of a struggle for life has for

Bismarck introduced

Since

antithesis.

maxim

the

politics,

mainspring

its

common man

the

that

And

the

The

this

bow

shall

to their authority..

democracy

be banished, to make room

will

time not for a new aristocracy of noblar birth and

higher

but for the coarse and overbearing kra-

ideals,

of a

tistocracy

money-power.

brutal

Nietzsche

no means exceptional, but proclaims as our

of

future

modern

modern

weak,

the

by the

process origin,

of

in

life

respect also takes the

this

is

to

which

itself

out to

that there flows in

of nobler

oringin.

shrinking

atmosphere, previling

ebbing

we, ourselves,

its

A

from

it

modern uneasy

and taking alarm

owe our and

after

should not be forlife

a side-current,

host of high-minded the

the

ultimate consequences.

chill

men

arose,

of the moral

at the brutality of the

egotism,

endeavored to

partly

by means of

life

us, ivas

tell

the process which, in us

Meanwhile, as observed above,

who,

while the Christ in

Such, they

strong.

selection

and such

must work

gotten

by

opposite ground that the weak must be sup-

precisely

planted

And

life.

is

herald the

its

showed heart-winning sympathy with

divine compassion

us,

scholars and

can only be that once more the sound

end

principles of

higher

day demand with increasing boldness

our

of

into

it

very

right of the stronger has

of the

found almost universal acceptance. experts

this

strengthen the lowaltruism,

partly

by

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