Calvinism - pagina 145

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CALVINISM AND POLITICS. of the

churches,

and

each

must practise

it

every

liberty

citizen

of

has cost a

all

human

by allowing to

itself,

of conscience,

primordial and inalienable right of It

I4I

all

as the

men.

heroic struggle to wrest this greatest

Hberties

from the grasp of despotism

and streams of human blood have been poured out before the object was attained.

But

very reason

for this

every son of the Reformation tramples upon the honour of the

who does not

fathers,

defend this palladium of our

retrenching,

order that

may

it

must respect are

ciences

In

liberties.

be able to rule men, the government

human

deepest ethical power of our

this

A

existence.

assiduously and without

nation, consisting of citizens

bruised,

broken

itself

is

in

whose consits

national

strength.

And

even

from

this

forced to admit that our fathers^

of conscience, for the liberty

liberty

and the

speech,

of

am

had not the courage of the conclusions which

in theory,

follow

if I

of worship)

liberty

well aware that they

made

even

refusal of publication

the

fact

that

the

free

;

—

all

in the Calvinistic Netherlands.

could

first

am

this

by censure

does not set aside

expression of thought, by the

spoken and printed word, has

straightened,

I

a desperate effort to hinder

the spread of literature which they disliked,

and

if

first

achieved

victory

Whosoever was elsewhere

enjoy the liberty

the liberty of the press,

its

of ideas

and

And

on Calvinistic ground.

thus the logical development of what was enshrined in the liberty first

of conscience, as well as that hberty

itself,

blessed the world from the side of Calvinism.

For

it

is

true

that,

in

Roman

lands, spiritual

and

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