Calvinism - pagina 63

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. and Agnosticism

ever

is

more loudly acclaimed

On

solution of the great enigma.

and of activity

the

navigation

feeling,

59

is

the rivers of sentiment

made

duty-free,

becoming the only touch-stone

is

drowning us

Metaphysics

but

gold;

religious

whom

Christ

avoided

is

contraband.

And

although

is

as

itself

rejected

same

that

these very scholars honour as a religious

"Thou

genius has taught us most emphatically: love God, not only with

all

thy heart and with

strength, but also ivith all thy mind^\ yet they,

contrary,

ethical

swamp. Whatsoever announces

in a

irreligious

and

for testing

with the pretension of an axiomatic dogma, as

as the

venture to dismiss our mind, or

thy

all

on the

intellect,

holy domain, and as not

unfit for use, in this

shalt

as

fulfilling

the requirements of a religious organ.

Thus the

religious

organ being found, not

in the

whole

of our being, but in part of it, being confined to our feelings

and our also

will,

consequently also the sphere of religious

must assume Religion

ter.

in

consequence the same/^r//rt:/^/2^r^^-

excluded from science, and

is

from the domain of public ber, the cell for prayer,

be

limited

of sentiment.

own

And

By

his

du

the result

placed alongside of

the

sollst^

world,

is

is

that, in

This brings

us

it;

The

many different human life, is

and, far from the thriving

understood to hide

and almost private

life.

Kant

times banish religion to the retreats

ways, rehgion, once the central force of

of

authority

and the secrecy of the heart should

the sphere of religion to the ethical

mystics of our

now

its

henceforth the inner cham-

life;

exclusive dwelling place.

its

life

itself in

a distant

retreat.

naturally

to the third characteristic

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