Calvinism a life-system - pagina 275

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. from the

facts,

would therefore have

But what

idea.

is

here the idea?

to

Is

2/1

spnng from the not

it

that,

this,

have once become estabhshed,

where these

differences

and highly

differentiated

beings

appear, this

is

either

the result of chance, or else the necessary consequence

of blind natural

Now,

forces?

suffering

humanity

suffering

by such a

we

are

to believe that

ever become reconciled to

will

solution?

Nevertheless

welcome

I

the progress of this theory of Selection; and

it

men who

Not, forsooth, on account of what

to us.

upon us

It urges

admire

I

the penetration and power of thought of the

commend

its

as a truth

;

but because

it

has mustered

courage to attack once more the most fundam.ental of

and thus

problems,

all

the

same depth

of

profundity reaches

in point of

thought,

which Calvin boldly

to

descended.

For

this

is

precisely the high significance of the doctrine

dogma,

oi' Election that, in this

Calvinism

ago,

problem,

as long as three centuries

dared to face this same all-dominating

solving

however,

it,

not

blind selection stirring in unconscious

the

sovereig'n

and

visible

tence

of

camellia swine,

all

or

and,

of

choice

things

be

to

buttercup,

equally

Him Who

The

invisible.

in

the

cells,

sense of a

but honouring

created

all

things

determination of the exiscreated,

nightingale

among men,

our own persons, whether one

is

of what or

crow,

is

to be

hart

or

the determination of to be born as girl or

boy, rich or poor, dull or clever, white or coloured or feven as

Abel or Cain,

is

the most tremendous predesti-

nation conceivable in heaven or on earth; and see

it

still

taking place before our eyes every day, and

we we

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