Calvinism - pagina 38

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

34

Even

steady development of our race? waters

of

its

an isolated

were

life

so far as the

they formed nothing but

clear,

Almost the same remark

lake.

applies to

the high development which was once the boast of India

and

the state of things in Mexico and Peru in the

to

days of Montezuma and the Incas.

In

all

these regions

the people attained a high degree of development, but

stopped there, and, remaining isolated, a benefit to

humanity

strongly

to

still

the

life

This applies

large.

at

no way proved

in

more

of the coloured races on the

—a

coast and in the interior of Africa

far

lower form

of existence, reminding us not even of a lake but rather

There

of pools and marshes.

and

broad

from the beginning bore the

which

fresh,

but one world-stream,

is

promise of the future. This stream had

its rise

in Middle-

and the Levant, and has steadily continued

Asia

course from

East to West.

From Western Europe

its it

has passed on to your Eastern States and from thence to California.

ment

are

Nile.

From

Greece the

it

The

found

sources of this stream of develop-

Babylon and

in

thence

passed

on

flowed

it

on to the

Romanic nations

it

the valley of the

in

to

Greece.

Roman

Empire.

continued

its

way

From From

to the North-

western parts of Europe, and from Holland and England it

reached at length your continent.

stream

is

at a standstill.

China and Japan tell

in

what

in

impeded

races

But while

;

meanwhile no one can

may

which have thus

yet

lie

this

slumbering

far failed of pro-

this secret of the future

mystery, the course of

present that

Western course through

forces for the future

the Slavic

gress.

is

Its

At

is

still

veiled

world-stream from East

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