Calvinism - pagina 118

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

114 Caesar,

an

in

Asiatic

despot, in a tyrant as Philip ot

or in a dictator like Napoleon.

Spain,

but forms,

which the one State-idea incorporated

in

the

stages

But

in

itself;

of development in a never ending process.

whatever form

revealed

All these were

the

itself,

this mystical

being of the State

remained supreme: the State

idea

member

sovereignty and for every

shortly asserted

its

of the State,

remained the touchstone of wisdom to

it

way to this State-apotheosis. Thus all transcendent right in God,

give

oppressed

right,

down

in

the

very

face,

falls

The law harmony with

but because

right,

his

law.

are in

contents

fruit

There is no but the immanent right which is written

lifted

other

the

up

which the

to

it

opposite,

is

law.

right,

is

not because

on the morrow

must be

of this deadening theory

is

good, because

of God, of

it

is

blunted, that

no one above decide

itself,

how our

life

And when you proof

is

higher

and

no longer the

it

is

created us and will of

knows

us,

exists will

but

it

the State, which, having

becomes God, and has

actually

and our existence

to

shall be.

further consider that this mystical State

expresses and enforces further

all

That which

becomes the ever-changing

the

fixed-

all

extinguished.

exists;

Him Who

And

right.

ness of right departs from our minds, and that is

fixes

it

as a matter of course,

is,

that the consciousness of right

enthusiasm for right

its

the eternal principles of

If

this also

away.

its will

demanded

only through

men — what

that this state-sovereignty,

even as popular sovereignty, does not outgrow the abasing subjection of

man

to his fellow-man

and never ascends to a

duty of submission which finds its cogency in the conscience.^

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