Calvinism - pagina 30

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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and therefore gives and

the systems of caste

rise to

Egypt, and to slavery everywhere

in

man under

placing one

Under Islamism,

man.

else,

dreams of

v^hich

of man, even as the kafir

the slave

Romanism, taking root

Moslim.

the

overcomes the absolute character of ders

it

relative, in

man

to

man

thereby

a base subjection to his fellowits

honries, sensuality usurps public authority, is

India

in

is

paradise of

and woman the slave of

in Christian soil,

distinction,

and ren-

order to interpret every relation of

There

hierarchically.

is

among

a hierarchy

of God, a hierarchy in God's Church, and

the angels

so also a hierarchy

among men,

leading to an entirely as the

embodiment of

aristocratic

interpretation of

the ideal.

Finally Modernism, which denies and abol-

ishes

every

difference,

life

cannot rest until

it

made

has

woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity. One type must answer for all, one uniform, one position and one and the same deve-

lopment of it,

is

and whatever goes beyond and above

life;

ciousness. In the its

relation, If

diately

women,

cons-

same way Calvinism has derived from

God

fundamental relation to

of man's

life.

common

looked upon as an insult to the

a pecuhar interpretation

and

man,

on!}-

true

which since the 1 6th century has ennobled

social

relation

Calvinism before

to

places

God,

rich or poor,

as creatures of

then

it

our entire it

follows

weak or

God, and as

is

this

human that

life

all

imme-

men

or

strong, dull or talented,

lost sinners,

have no claim

whatsoever to lord over one another, and that we stand as

equals

before God, and consequently equal as

man

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