Calvinism a life-system - pagina 274

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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Between

all

tiation.

Everywhere

these there

wide

differentiation,

is

then

tween the one being and

the

differen-

differences

dijferences,

be-

and that too

other;

such differences as involve in almost every instance,

When

preference.

whence posed

one

is

different

from each other?

question

in

the

among men,

in

all

and

to,

supreme

kingdom,

tears the dove,

two creatures

these

that

it

hawk rends and

the

means of the theory of

are thus op-

This

vegetable social

life,

and animal^

and

The

elements.

gain

should

struggle

posits differences,

up

will

Even

in

weaker and stronger

a higher potency of being.

in

weaker

the

difference

by

is

stronger overcomes the weaker, and the

stored

is

Now

it

it

Selection that our present age

attempts to solve this problem of problem^ the single cell

the

is

maintain

still

be manifest

its

subsistence,

in the further

Or, the

course of the

itself.

the blade of grass

is

not conscious of

the spider goes on entrapping the the stag, and account to

in

fly,

this,

and

the tiger killing

those cases the weaker being does not

itself for

its

misery.

But we men are clearly

conscious

of these differences, and

question

cannot

be

evaded,

by us

therefore the

whether the theory of

Selection be a solution calculated to reconcile the weaker,

the will

less richly

endowed

creature, with

be acknowledged that

incite

to

a

more

its

in itself this

existence.

It

theory can but

furious struggle, with a lasciate ogni

speranza., voi che^ntrate for the

weaker being.

Against

the ordinance of fate that the weaker shall succumb to the stronger, struggle

can

according to the system of election, no avail.

The

reconciliation,

not springing

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