Calvinism - pagina 44

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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exhibit

widely,

way

every

in

same minghng

this

of

In Switzerland, the Germans, united with Italians

races.

French;

in

France,

Gauls, with

Franks and

Burgundians;

in

the Lowlands, Celts and

Welch with

and

Germans;

also

the

England the old Celts and Anglo-

in

saxons were afterwards raised to a of national it

may

be

under

said,

Romanic and Germanic elements

Celtic,

of the Germanic,

come

has

unfold

to

itself

commingling of blood

liberty, this

than

proportion

is

in

a

still

all

the

higher

assuming a larger

has ever yet been known.

blood flows together from

us

give

In America, where

genealogy of the Calvinistic nations. Calvinism

Indeed

that the three principal tribes of Western

leadership

the

higher standard

by the invasion of the Normans.

life

Europe, the

still

Here the

the tribes of the ancient

and again we have the Celts from Ireland, the

world,

Germans from Germany and Scandinavia, from

Slavs

Russia

united to the

who promote

and Poland,

still

further this already vigorous intermingling of the races.

This

process

latter

ponent that tribe,

but

that

the

in

order

themselves

members milated

not

is

it

in

under the higher ex-

place

takes

merely the union of tribe with

old historic nations are dissolving to

allow

the

re-union

of their

one higher unity, hitherto constantly

by the American

type.

In

assi-

this respect also

Calvinism fully meets the conditions imposed on every

new phase of development in the life of humanity. It spread itself in a domain where it found the commingling of blood stronger than under Romanism, and in America raised this to

its

highest conceivable realization.

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