Calvinism - pagina 237

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

Consequently, we are physically stronger

ing influence.

We

than the preceding generation.

combating the defects and

in

and

our

bodily

her

achievements.

afflict

marvel

at

tangible

233

of

side

In

makes us

science

the

brief,

material,

out the fairest of promises

holds

life

infirmities that threaten

surgical

life,

And

Hve longer.

for the future.

And

yet discontent makes

mind cannot suppress

ing

one

high

may

itself

its

heard, and the think-

misgivings

value the material things, they do not

Our

out the round of our existence as men.

fill

sonal

life

as

however

for,

;

men and

citizens subsists not in the

.

per-

comforts

that surround us, nor in the body, which serves us as

a

with

link

internally

we how

actuates

us

;

and

the hypertrophy

letters,

were

science

is

more

and

Not

life

as

reflection, the arts of

On

abeyance.

spreads

civilization,

in

in

inner

more deeply

being,

Japan,

are

laid,

is

kindled,

where

the facul-

poetry and

for

widening

instance,

is

al-

But even Personality

the hidden recesses of our

where character

flame of enthusiasm dations

in

if

constantly

the intellect does not constitute the mind. seated

results in a

attainments than ever,

most dazzled by her too-rapid conquests.

is

aware,

the contrary, empirical

brilliant in her

knowledge

.universal circles,

in

and

spiritual.

consciousness

painfully

of our external

atrophy of the

of thought

in this inner

more and more

becoming

are

serious ties

the outward world, but in the spirit that

love's

is

formed,

whence the

where the moral founblossoms bud, whence

spring consecration and heroism, and where in the sense for

the Infinite,

our time-bound existence reaches out

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