Calvinism - pagina 125

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CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

demanded

It

for

and regulation

both independence

may

And by this

own fundamental

its

The testimony

of history

idea.

that this

public law has not flourished in

type.

Calvinistic

therefore that

stern demand,

unassailable

is

Catholic or in Lutheran States, but

of a

own sphere

be said to have generated constitutional

public law, from

constitutional

in their

between both, not by the

of the relation

executive, but under the law.

Calvinism

121

The

idea

among

is

upon men, separates

in

two spheres.

itself into

the nations

here fundamental

sovereignty of God,

the

Roman

its

descent

On the one

hand the mechanical sphere of State-authority

^

and on

the other hand the organic sphere of the authority of the Social

authority

And

circles. is

in

both these spheres the inherent

sovereign, that

is

to say,

has above

it

itself

nothing but God.

Now

for

the mechanically coercing authority of the

government any further explanation so,

is

superfluous, not

however, for the organic social authority.

Nowhere social

is

the dominating character of this organic

more

authority

plainly

discernable than in the

sphere of Science.

In the introduction to an edition of

the "Sententiae" of

Lombard and

of the

"Summa Theo-

Thomas Aquinas, the learned Thomist wrote "The work of Lombard has ruled one hundred and

logica" of

—

fifty

years and has produced Thomas, and after him

*Summa' of Thomas has Europam rexit) during five full

the

rated

i)

all

ruled

all

centuries

the subsequent Theologians",

Editon of Migne

at Paris

1841.

Tome

Europe (totam

I,

proof

i)

i.

and has gene-

Suppose we

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