Calvinism a life-system - pagina 100

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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never allowed to enter, but

is

human

has

life

which the richness of

in

from without, inward, and in a sound spiritual concentration,

turned,

which, as the result ot

there has been developed such a deep sense of everything high,

and such an energy

excite the

for

everything holy, as to

envy even of our antagonists.

Not only has

the wing of the butterfly in those circles been preserved

but even the golddust upon this wing shines as

intact,

brilliantly as ever.

now is the proof to which attention. Our age is far ahead This

I invite

your respectful

of the Calvinistic age

overflowing mass

of ethical essays and treatises

and learned expositions.

Philosophers and Theologians

in

its

really vie with

hiding from the is

one another

us, just as

in discovering for us (or in

you may be pleased to put it) domain of morals. But there

straight road in the

something that

all

this host of learned scholars

They have

not been able to do.

have

not been able to restore

moral firmness to the enfeebled public conscience. Rather must we complain that ever more and more the

foundations

of our

moral building are gradually

being loosened and unsettled, until finally there remains

not one

stronghold

wider ranks can for the Future.

claiming

the

property

is

and honesty

feel

left

of which the people in their

that

it

guarantees moral Certainty

Statesmen and Jurists are openly pro-

right

of the strongest; the ownership of

called stealing; free love has been advocated is

ridiculed.

A

pantheist has dared to put

Nero on the same footing; and Nietzsche, going further still, deemed Christ's blessing of the meek

Jesus

and

to be the curse of humanity.

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