Calvinism a life-system - pagina 191

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

in

Dublin.

And

Roman

France,

In

against

pitted

of

Great Britain the same principle

In

ciple.

the

Free

University,

Catholic

is

followed are

faculties

State

the

of

faculties

also in the Netherlands

the

18/

institutions.

Amsterdam saw

the birth

for the general cultivation of

the sciences on the foundation of the Calvinistic principle. If

now, according to the demands of Calvinism, Church

and State withdraw,

I

do

not say their liberal

but their high authority, from university -life, that

the

flourish

which

in

own

its

allowed to take root and

then

soil,

the division,

certainly

already begun, will be accomplished of

is

and undisturbed, seen,

may be

university

that

and

in

this

domain

also

— to

division

We

and mutual understanding.

History as our witness. tried

it

itself

be

will

only a peaceful separation of the adherents

of antithetic principles warrants progress, gress,

gifts,

order

in

the

realize

of their

idea

of

pro-

upon

call

Rome

one State, but the

monarchy

universal

here

emperors of

First, the

false

— honest

into a multitude

of independent nations was needed, to develop the hidden political

Empire,

powers of Europe.

Europe yielded

After the

to

fall

of the

Roman

enchantment of one

the

ivorld-Chnrch, until the reformation dispelled this delusion, also,

thus opening

of Christian

life.

the

way

Nowhere

for a higher else

development

this as clearly

is

as in the United States of America,

seen

where denominati-

onal multiformity gave a separate Church-embodiment to every differentation ot principle.

Science only, tained.

But of

the days of

In the idea of one

the old curse of uniformity

its

this

also

artificial

it

may

is

yet main-

be prophesied, that

unity are numbered, that

it

will

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