Calvinism a life-system - pagina 193

FIFTH LECTURE.

CALVINISM AND ART. In

this

which

lecture,

fifth

is

the

last

but one,

I

speak of Calvinism and Art. It

is

induces fanatical

not

me

the

Genuflection before an almost

this.

worship of

art,

harmonize with

little

tendency of the day that

prevailing

do

to

such as our time

fosters,

high seriousness of

the

which Calvinism has pleaded, and which

it

should

life,

has sealed,

not with the pencil or chisel in the studio, but with

blood

best

Moreover the love of increase

ought the

to

fact,

in

and

stake

the

at

in

which

art

the is

field

for

its

of battle.

so broadly on the

our times, should not blind our eyes, but

be soberly and

which

in

is

critically

every

way

examined.

It

presents

explainable, that artistic

refinement, thus far restricted to a few favored circles,

now

tends to gain ground

even

occasionally to

among broader middle

betraying

its

the widest strata of lower society.

cratizing,

if

you

recommended

like,

itself

by

classes,

inclination to descend It

is

the demo-

of^a life-utterance which hitherto its

aristocratic allurements.

And

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