Calvinism - pagina 130

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and

circles

pendent

spheres,

in

all

a

institutions,

corporations and inde-

its

legal

and orderly influence

in

the making of the law and the course of government,

And

a healthy democratic sense.

in

of opinion

we

is

yet

on the important question, whether

shall continue in the

by

now

of franchise;

its

or

whether

it

is

desirable to place

which

side a corporative right of franchise,

enable the different circles to

At

prevailing solution of the

rights of those social spheres in the individual

special

right

the only difference

make

shall

a separate defence.

the

new tendency to organization reveals itself spheres of commerce and industry and not

less in that

of labour, and even from France voices, like

present a

even

in

that of Benoit, arise, which clamour for the juncture of

the right of franchise with these organizations. for one,

I

would welcome such a move, provided

application were not onesided, I

may

much

less exclusive

not linger over these side issues.

Let

it

;

its

but

suffice

have shown, that Calvinism protests against State-

to

omnipotence; against the horrible conception that no right exists

above and beyond existing laws and against ;

pride of absolutism, which recognizes no constitu-

the

tional rights, except as the result of princely favour.

These three representations, which

find so dangerous

a nourishment in the ascendency of Pantheism, are death to

our

for

civil

And Calvinism is to be dam across this absolutistic

liberties.

having built a

praised

stream,

not by appealing to popular force, nor to the hallucina-

human

by deducing those rights and liberties of social life from the same source, from which the high authority of the government flows tion

of

greatness, but

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