Calvinism a life-system - pagina 197

CALVINISM AND ART. century,

images that

kinds,

all

Alhambra

the

Khoran

in

his

but

will

93

militate against

the charge

justify

this

Grenada and the Alcazar

in

no wonderfully

are

Seville

Mahomed

did

of

1

at

beautiful products of archi-

tectural art?

We

must not forget that the

instinct

artistic

human phenomenon, but

universal

an

is

that in connection

with national types, climates and countries, the develop-

ment of that

among

Who

the nations.

it,

may

if I

will

who on

of art in Iceland, and scent

look for a development

hand

the other

will

it

then a matter of surprise

South of Europe was more favorable

the

development of

And when

not

so express myself, amidst the luxury

of nature in the Levant? Is that

most unequally divided

artistic instinct is

this

artistic

instinct

shows that Calvinism

History

widely received by the peoples

for the

than the North?

was most

of the North, does

it

prove aught against Calvinism, that in nations, living in a colder climate it

was

not

flourished

able

among

and of poorer natural surroundings, quicken

to

sacerdotal

artistic

the Southern nations

ism preferred a worship of to

an

wealth,

it

God

disapproved of a

Because Calvin-

?

in spirit

and

has been accused by

being devoid of an appreciation of

woman

such as

life

in truth,

Rome

and because

art,

debasing herself as an

model or casting away her honour

in

of it

artist's

the ballet,

its

moral seriousness has clashed with the sensualism of those

who deemed no

of Art,

All

this,

sacrifice too sacred for the

however,

which art has to occupy boundaries of

its

concerns

in the

Goddess

only the place

sphere of

life,

and the

domain, but does not touch art 13

itself.

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