Calvinism - pagina 45

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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

Thus

shown

is

it

condition of the mingling of blood, but

necessary

the

meets not only

Calvinism

that

4

human development

that in the process of

In Babylon

sents, with respect to this, a further stadium. this

also repre-

it

commingling of blood was of small significance;

it

importance with the Greeks and Romans;

it

gains

in

goes

under

further

manism reach

its

among

only

but

;

Islamism

highest perfection.

is

;

dominant under Ro-

Calvinistic

Here

in

nations does

America

it is

it

achiev-

ing the intermingling of all the nations of the old world.

A

similar climax of this process of

is

also

exhibited

under

the

public

activity

In the

life

family-life,

eminent

is

development from

As

that of maturity.

to

in the

during the years of childhood, the direction

of the

under-age

only

from the people themselves.

proceed

of the nations also there

the hands of the parents, so also in the

affairs is in

life

in the fact, that

of Calvinism does the impulse of

influence

underage period

the

of

by Calvinism

human development

nations

period

ruler,

it

is

but natural that during their

the Asiatic

first

and

priesthood,

afterwards the

some

despot, then

finally

both priest and magistrate together should stand at the

head of every movement. in

The

history of the nations

Babylon and under the Pharaohs,

in

Greece and

Rome, under Islamism and under the papal system, fully confirms this

of development.

course

evident

that

things.

Just because

the

nations

reach

that

this

could

finally

stadium

not

in their

came of in

But

it

is

self-

be a permanent state of progressive development age, they

must at length

which the people

itself

awoke,

stood up for their rights, and originated the movement

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