Calvinism - pagina 64

— CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

60 note

of this

view of religion;

partial

— religion

as per-

group of pious people among our generation. Thus the limitation oi\^t organ

taining not to

but only to

all,

tJie

of religion brings about the limitation of the

limitation

of

the

limitation

of

as

art

group or

circle

among men.

understood to have an orgaji of

is

sphere of

its

devotees,

so

own, and therefore, according to

also,

with religion.

and

sphere,

sphere consequently brings about

its its

its

its

this

view,

own, a

its

own

also,

Just

circle of

must

be

it

so happens that the great bulk of the

It

people are almost devoid of mystical feeling, and energetic of

strength

For

will.

reason they have either no

this

perception of the glow of mysticism, or are incapable of

But there are

really pious deeds.

also those

overflowing with a sense of the

life

is

are

full

energy,

and

piety and religion flourish

most

of

holy

whose inner

Infinite,

among such brilliantly

it

both

or

who

is

that

in their

imaginative power, and in their realizing capability.

From

and increasingly came

She knew

to favour the

religion only as

it

acknowledge

she tried to draw

possible

into

partial views.

all

human

genuine religious

sides of

line

life,

according to

I fully

as

life

by baptism,

by her holy water, was devoid of

aspersed

boundary

church,

the holy sphere, but everything

outside this sphere, everything not touched

nor

own

which she had consecrated.

life

as

gradually

religion to be confined

to that portion of that

same

existed in her

and considered the influence of

far

Rome

a quite different standpoint,

efficiency.

And

just as

all

Rome drew

a

between the consecrated and the profane

she also subdivided her difi'erent

own

sacred precincts

degrees of religious intensity;

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