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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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by the nature He gave him, and for the extra-common by granting him the supranatural gift of original righteousness. In this wise Adam was doubly furnished for the natural as well as the celestial

he for

his

earthly hfe remained almost unimpaired.

human

true,

Adam's

in its integrity.

remained

his possession after the

them why

it

order

natural

that

fallen

of

life,

which

perceive that this

dogma

the

is

of the

round about

is

this

Roman

only are faulty in

this

which

This

leads.

merely human.

system, on the one hand

human

the

vale,

clergy,

to

At

that time

ideal,

but after the Carnival, in order to

follows,

for

a

short

elevation into the higher sphere of Hfe.

the

nature

once more fully enjoyed, before one enters

is

upon the Caro save

lacks

the false dualism, to which a

is

previous Lecture pointed, in the carnival. the world

it

and on the other

sin,

of

is

Two things

catholic religion.

by the undervaluation it

often excels in the

remarkable anthropology

the deep Scriptural conception of errs

endowments

This explains to

fall.

in fact

is

it

with the real state of things

fall

founded the entire

it

natural

man

It is

a system which tries to reconcile

and on

us,

fall

but as a whole

nature was weakened,

remained

You

the

His natural equipment

not the former.

lost the latter,

By

life.

severing

higher than the

laity,

the

earthly

tie

time,

For

himself from

And

stylite,

reason

rank

and again, the monk, who turns

,

reached by the

this

in celibacy,

away from earthly possessions also and own will stands, ethically considered, on than the clergy.

spiritual

sacrifices his

a higher level

finally the highest perfection

who, mounting

everything

earthly,

or

is

his pillar, severs

by the yet more 1

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