Calvinism a life-system - pagina 169

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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the hands of unbelievers; but on the contrary, looking

upon

conscious

is

in all his works,

he

of having been called to fathom with

all

the energy of his things

nature and

in

human

production of sociology

and

had

life

lain

of the

industry, in the

how

removed the

suddenly

grace"

the order of

God he

wondrous character,

its

this

in the

of mankind,

life

human race. "common grace"

of the

history

the

in

Thus, you perceive,

both

open to view

"common

and the

creation,

things terrestrial as well as

intellect,

to

celestial;

adores,

in'

know God

as his task, to

it

dogma

of

under which secular

interdict,

bound, even at the

coming very

peril of

near a reaction in favour of a one-sided love for these secular studies. It

now

-was

understood,

that

was the "common

it

grace" of God, which had produced in ancient Greece

and

Rome

the

treasures of philosophic light, and dis-

closed to us treasures of art and justice, which kindled

love for classical studies, in order to renew to us

the

the profit of so splendid an heritage. seen,

that

aphoristic

the history of spectacle

of cruel

process with the Cross as

every nation of which It

its

its

special

is

was now clearly

not so

passions,

as

and men of thought.

ceived, that there

present

a coherent

task,

and the knowledge

be a fountain of blessing for every people.

economy deserved

round about

much an

centre; a process in which

was apprehended, that the science of

national ars

may

has

mankind

It

itself as

Yea,

was nothing

us, or in

politics

and

the careful attention of schol-

human

it

was

intuitively con-

either in the life

itself,

life

of nature

which did not

an object worthy of investigation, which

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