Calvinism a life-system - pagina 248

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

244

arrived at what

modern

callad

is

life,

involving a radical

breach with the Christian traditions of the Europe of the

The

past.

marked by the

modern

of this

spirit

fact that

most

life is

seeks the origin of

it

clearly-

man

not in

creation after the image of God but in evolution from the

Two

animal. I.

fundamental ideas are clearly implied in

that the point of depature

the

denied,

God,

of

and man

no longer the

and the low;

but the material

divine,

sovereignty

is

which

ought

and processus

Out of the root of these two

finitum.

double type of

hand the

life

is

now being

life

this,

and

Especially

second type of

from

all

own

it,

fixed ordi-

our ever-expanding large

life

is

public

cities

gaining the upper hand, and,

opinion,

more openly

Money, pleasure and

in

social

which avows

its

is

giving

ungodly

each successive generation.

power, these alone are the

of pursuit; and people are constantly growing

objects

less fastidious

regarding the means employed to secure

Thus the

less audible,

the

minds

cynical

in

overriding the voice of the country-districts, and

them.

of

also taking their point of depar-

emancipating themselves

shape to

life

refined

likewise, but after their

nances.

character

the one

or rather far beneath

fashion,

a

in in-

of the masses, craving after pleasure,

own way,

ture in matter,

On

evolved.

by the more

University-circles, attainable

only; and at the side of a materialistic

is

ideas a

fertile

and highly-organized

interesting, rich,

but, in their

that the

2.

be supreme,

yields himself to the mystical current

of an endless process, a regressits

this

to

this:

ideal or

eve

voice of conscience becomes less and

and duller the

of the

lustre of the eye

French revolution

still

which on

reflected

some

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