Calvinism - pagina 195

CALVINISM AND ART.

do not

forget

heights

of isolation

real genius

the

that

I9I

seeks the

of art

rather than the plains below, and

that our age, so poor in the production of real creative art,

deemed

is

of the of

past;

lead

art corruption,

to

the most

even

In

warmth

of this

nevertheless, in

common

the

necessarily

my

estimation, |

and

irreligious

cold,

this

practical age the

devotion to art has kept alive of our

higher aspirations

an

for wealth, or

race

before the shrines of Bacchus and

unholy prostration Venus.

must

vulgus

homage

injudicious aesthetical fanaticism stands

than

higher

far

profanum

the

that the

admit,

I

splendid glow

the

at

itself

though

yea,

by

art

warm

to

soul,

many

which otherwise might

readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last

Thus you

century.

see,

do not underestimate the

I

But what

present aesthetical movement.

History should be discountenanced, place

to

it

movement

this

Calvinism

And

what

is

the

vinism

induced

in

to

rather keep

Sublime

new

of this

when

I

domain

the

of the i6th century;

should be doing

I

favor

therefore,

mad endeavor make it of equal

the

than, or even to

higher

value with the religious yet

is

by

in the light of

if

begged for

I

movement.

artistic

plead the significance of Calof

art,

I

am

not in the least

do

so

my

eyes fixed upon the Beautiful and the

this

vulgarization

in its eternal significance,

of the richest

gifts

of

God

to

of

and upon

art,

art as

but

one

mankind.

Here, however, every student of history knows that I

founder upon a deeply-rooted prejudice. Calvin,

said,

was personally devoid of the

Calvinism

which

in

the

artistic instinct,

it

is

and

Netherlands proved guilty of

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