Calvinism - pagina 250

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

246 the

weak has grown

from Darwinism

arising

life,

be the controlling feature of

to

of a struggle for life has for

maxim

the

politics,

Bismarck

Since

antithesis.

whose

itself,

mainspring

its

introduced

The

common man

the

that

And

democracy

principles of this

bow

shall

to their authority.

can only be that once more the sound

end

the

be banished, to make room

will

time not for a new aristocracy of nobler birth and

but for the coarse and overbearing kra-

higher ideals, of

tistocracy

a

money-power.

brutal

Nietzsche

no means exceptional, but proclaims as future

of

modern

our

modern

weak,

the

by the strong.

process

of selection

and such

must work

Aleanwhile, that

of nobler

who,

in

which

us,

ivas the

we, ourselves,

owe our

there

out to

flows

A

from

and partly

tell

the process which, in us and after its

ultimate consequences.

observed above,

as

egotism,

life

Such, they

to

itself

oringin.

atmosphere,

ebbing

is

shrinking

previling

while the Christ

respect also takes the

this

in

life

planted

gotten

herald the

opposite ground that the weak must be sup-

precisely

origin,

And

life.

its

by

is

showed heart-winning sympathy with

divine compassion

us,

scholars and

day demand with increasing boldness

our

of

higher

into

it

very

this

right of the stronger has

of the

found almost universal acceptance. experts

central idea

in

modern

should not be life

the

uneas)-

cliill

for-

a side-current,

host of high-minded

taking

of

men

arose,

the moral

alarm at the brutality of the

endeavored b}'

it

to

means of

strengthen the lowaltruism,

partly

by

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