Calvinism - pagina 176

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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became a

Calvinist

home, had yet

our eternal

kingdom of above man.

To

This entire

labour

this

before, under,

limitless field

had

to be

and

worked.

the Calvinist consecrated himself with

enthusiasm and energy. in

to

wealth of the

in all the

was spread out

nature,

way

his

perform on earth an

to

The cosmos,

important task.

on

pilgrim, who, while

For the earth with

all

that

is

had, according to God's Will, to be subjected to

it,

Thus

man.

country, gation

flourished,

never

days,

in

my

native

and industry, commerce and navi-

agriculture

as

those

in

awakened new needs.

new-born national

This

before.

life

order to subdue the earth,

In

a knowledge of the earth was indispensable, knowledge of

oceans,

its

of

its

And

laws of this nature.

people

who had

itself,

nature,

and of the

so

came

it

now

until

attributes

and

to pass that the

refrained from encour-

aging science, by a new and sparkling energy, suddenly called

it

into action, spurring

unknown.

hitherto entirely

And now tion,

that

I

on to a sense of liberty,

it

approach

my

last point,

the emancipation of Science must inevitably

lead to a sharp conflict of principles,

Calvinism alone offered

conflict, also,

You

The

which

understand, leads

investigation

on

the

map

result

Optimists

the asser-

t^/^.,

is

of

life

the

and

school of Hegel.

to

conflict I

collisions.

differently

origin

pessimists.

Among

in view.

One draws from

school

,

for this

ready solution.

tJie

have

of schools

A

and that

Free

the lines

his

neighbour.

and

tendencies.

of

Kant, and a

jurists the determinists

oppose

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