Calvinism - pagina 182

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

178

decay

the

of the

and the

heathen,

old

of the

rise

Christian

world-view, the general conviction soon took

deep root

among

created

all

by God,

students, that everything has been

that the species of beings have been

brought into existence by special creative

among as

these

image-bearer of

ther,

the

that

intervening sin

normal

Christ as

God

original ;

and

primitive condition,

its

who

God

means of Regeneration,

our Mediator and

scoffers,

fur-

;

order to restore this ab-

that, in

of the

There were of course through numbers,

has been created

harmony has been broken by

abnormal

the

man

and that

in original righteousness

of affairs to

state

introduced

of beings

species

acts,

all

derided these

Holy

of

Scriptures.

ages even in large facts,

and

indifferent

who took no interest in them but the very few, who during ten centuries scientifically opposed this universal conviction, you may count at once on your The Renaissance doubtless favoured the fingers' end. people,

rise

;

of an infidel tendency, which was

Vatican, and

Humanism

Roman

;

ideals

middle ages, beginning,

it

in the

but granted, that after the close of the

the opposition of the Normalists

yet remains a

afterwards

left

eighteenth

made

a

that the large host of

fact,

and

physicists, for cent-

untouched these foundations, on

which the very old conviction the

even

created enthusiasm for Graeco-

philologians, jurists, physicians uries

felt

century,

that

rested.

the

It

was during

opposition

made

a

change of front by leaving the circumference and taking

up a position

at the center;

losophy which,

for

the

first

set out with the declaration,

and

it

time, tliat

was the newer phion a general

scale,

the principles of the

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