Calvinism - pagina 153

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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you recognize that the cosmos, instead of being a heap of stones, loosely thrown together, on the contrary presents

our mind a monumental building erected

to

point

of

what -every

your

then

view,

to happen,

is

it

uncertain

is

family,

man may

your country, the world

will

choose

then

it

the

this

reverse.

If

There

nothing.

is

is

and

in store for you,

Every

also possible that

were

moment in a he may do just

you could count upon

so,

no interconnection, no development,

And now

a chronicle, but no history.

no continuity;

Man's

at large.

every

act

what

take,

the principal concern.

then

is

this

any moment,

what course things may

certain way, but

me, what becomes of science under such conditions

You may study

of

ically

human

has been

life

Nothing but bare

time for

it.

But

about man's free it

is

development of science ously

decided

in

favor

to enter just

We

will.

a fact that the in

then be histor-

no

and plan have

moment propose

a

a discussion

into

may

facts

History dies away.

longer a place in history.

not for

made ambiguous and

interconnection

ascertained,

do

.''

speak of the study of nature, but the

yet

uncertain.

I

at

morning and evening may have

capricious

tell

Do you abandon

consistent style.

a severely

in

now

have no

more thorough

our age has almost unanim-

of Calvinism

regard

with

to

the antithesis between the unity and stability of God's decree, which Calvinism professes,

and

looseness,

and the

which the Arminians

superficiality

preferred.

systems of the great modern philosophers to

one,

History

in

favor

of the

of

unity

Civilization

in

and

are,

stability.

The almost

Buckle's

England has succeeded

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