Calvinism a life-system - pagina 208

CALVINISM AND ART.

204

proof of Calvinism's of

auspices

poverty.

artistic

Only under the

created a general art-style, and just because

a

much

so

very

forbade

was no longer allowed

of art flows the

in

The

and

art,

or,

In other words,

principle.

its

what place

judged

simply

but

to create, viz., a general

bound

Is its principle

.-^

by the standards of

nobler

of

I

the

do

of

the

now

speak

not

use

respect

to

human harmony when all and

proportion the

art.

of the

dimensions of this

our

to

life its

will

functioiis

conscience.

keep within

in

the

is

its

life

domain.

always units

cooperate in just

The

logic of

nor

feelings of the heart,

the

However holy Religion may be, its own bounds, lest, in crossing

degenerate into superstition,

to

abuse,

only then attain

our general development.

mind may not scorn the

And,

for

opposed

In every domain,

should the love of the beautiful silence

it

there

the Calvinistic

Encroachment on the domain of others lawful;

is

and world-view of Calvinism a place

spheres?

ideal

not

is

higher view-

would a world without art loose one of

principle,

is

from

if so, if

question its

own, but ivhat interp7'etation of the nature

its

life-

art,

And

differently stated.

whether Calvinism produced what, with

art-style of

its

and sensual forms.

our second point.

this brings us to

it

had reached

the symbolical expression of

it

Kence the question must be

point

it

higher stage of religious development,

principle

religion in visible

its

have

religious principle could Calvinism

its

insanity

voice of it

must

its

lines,

or fanaticism.

same way, the too exuberant passion

for

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