Calvinism - pagina 259

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. and

tual,

which only

Even from a

Rome

the

Europe tremble

all

sword,

point

now

is

of view, the power of

about a considerable decrease of the birthrate.

Germany,

Russia,

population

the

the

next per

forty

has in some

and

share

be

will

the

repulse exertion,

prospect pass

and though

into

attack

the

that

the

as

there

Rome's hands. the

in

conditions

do not see

I

is

And, even

expectations,

who

the

may

be

if

prevailing

slightest

ever again

will

this

if

he beheld

Southern

in

were to

could possibly

realization of his ideal,

now

I

than

much we also how we could

not

supremacy

political

to

less

modernism save by combined

nevertheless

happen contrary rejoice

of

Roman-

power of Roman-Catholic

unity and scholarship for the defence of sacred,

give

statistics

highly, therefore,

inclined to value the inherent

count

countries

safe to predict that within

its

However

cent.

now

Even

is

it

century

half

Romish

half of Christendom to the

Church,

Catholic

it

stationary.

smaller

Whilst

England and the United States

growing,

is

become almost only

future.

Economic and moral more than one Romish country brought

depression has in

in

herself

books of her

Sibylline

statistical

France,

the while decreasing.

all

is

her

of

scanning

anxiously

made

years ago

fifty

unsheathing

the

at

And

development of Europe.

political

255

Europe

and South America reproduced elsewhere.

We

may,

in

fact,

even put

would be a step backwards

Rome's world- and

more strongly

succeeded

it

an older and hence

in the history of

it,

:

the course of history.

life-view represents

lower stage of development Protestantism

in

it

and

hence

mankind.

occupies

a

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