Calvinism - pagina 202

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CALVINISM AND ART.

198 sensual

by

though

highest expression, finally helps

its

means

these very

for is

religion

to cast off the fetters of sensuality

must be granted that

it

at a lower level

only the aesthetical worship that liberates the

he

nevertheless,

highest

concludes,

emancipation",

Divine

worship

that

for

emphatically declares that

appeared

inseparably

the

not

arts,

the aesthetic

in

itself

he

merely but

ture,

music,

The

more,

into

spiritual

itself

from

incapable

And

the

also

on

the

art's

in

painting,

Hart-

to

art,

inclined to

that period,

the service

of the cult,

and

sculpture

all

architec-

mimicry and the drama.

dance,

hand.

other

maturity,

At

form.

engage

says,

still

the

Originally

:

united

is

its

in

And Von

spiritual.

it

spirit,

not

is

only found

is

because, at the lower stage, Religion lose

art

'•^beautiful

realm of the invisible and

mann even more

it

the

Religion

develops

will

extricate

more

it

bandages, because art always remains the very essence of Religion.

of expressing

the final result of this historic process of separation,

he concludes, must

when

be, that Religion,

will rather entirely abstain

fully matured,,

from the stimulant by which

aesthetic pseudo-emotion intoxicated

centrate itself wholly and exclusively

in

it,

order to con-

upon the quickening

of those emotions which are purely religions!'^

And this

both Hegel and

Von Hartmann

fundamental thought.

a life-sphere of their distinguishable intertwined,

from

own

are correct in

Religion and Art have each ;

each

these

other

may

at first be scarcely

and therefore closely

but, with a richer development, these

spheres necessarily separate.

a cradle you can scarcely

tell

Looking which

is

at

two

two babies

boy or

girl,

in

but

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