Calvinism a life-system - pagina 206

CALVINISM AND ART.

202

which seeks to reveal

itself to

fourfold

Art

ramification.

the outer world in this

also

no side-shoot on a

is

principal branch, but an independent branch that grows

from the trunk of our

more nearly

however

If

arise a unity of conception it

constantly appears

found

only

and there

is

in

the

unity

this

finite

is

springs from the

it

no system of philosophy which does not

no unity

is

of your inner

order,

and there

no moral world-order conceivable

is

of an

of art

is

Thus

of the

also

no unity

conceivable, except

Infinite.

by the

which flows from

art-inspiration of an Eternal Beautiful,

fountain

power that has

Infinite

moral world.

in this

revelation

the moral world-

existence with

but for the impression

ordained order

same way

In the

Infinite.

your moral existence save by the

in

union

the

how there can

be asked

embracing these four domains,

that

ascend to the issues of the

the

far

is

Infinite. There is no unity in your by a well-ordered philosophical system,

thinking save

in

it

of the

fountain

there

it

point where

that

at

even though

itself,

Religion than to our thinking or to

allied to

our ethical being.

life

Hence no

characteristic

all-embracing art-style can arise except as a consequence of the peculiar impulse from the Infinite that operates

our

in

privilege

that in

inmost

And

being.

of Religion,

over

she alone effects the

our

self-consciousness,

embracing ciple, is

art-style,

since

intellect,

this

is

morality and

communion with the

call

the

a

for

very art,

the Infinite secular,

all-

independent of any religious prin-

simply absurd.

Understand that the garment,

art

is

no fringe that

and no amusement that

is

is

attached to

added to

life.

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