Calvinism a life-system - pagina 257

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. from

liberation

their

over

such

European countries

as

which

those

in

of

and

complete

we look

of these

sway

undisputed

the is

population

and

Spain

the

fair

political

life

as

ideal

picture

therefore,

test,

But

possible.

they

if

for a

life

and exerts a wholesome weak, compa-

economic conditions;

present

and,

;

do

in vain

American Romish States

endless internal strife

an

derived from

is

The

Rome.

ratively unprogressive in their their

States

Financially they are

outside.

More-

Portugal.

have always been under

as

elevates, develops energy,

influence

253

in

sad spectacle of

the

one were inclined to form

of the future of the world, he might

almost do so by imagining the very opposite of what is

Nor can

the actual situation in South-America.

pleaded in excuse of

Rome

that this

is

it

be

due to excep-

tional circumstances, for in the first place this political

backwardness

is

met with not only

in Peru, in Brazil as well as in the

in Chili,

from the new to the old world, we reach,

while, crossing

in spite of ourselves, the

same conclusion.

also, the credit of all Protestant states

a painful

affairs in

offer

Economic

discount.

high, that of Catholic,

is

and administrative

Spain and Portugal, and not

less

than in

Italy,

The outward power

cause for continual complaint.

and outside influence of these

is

In Europe,

Roman

the Southern' Countries which are at

but likewise

Venezuelian Republic

states

is

visibly declining.

more discouraging still, infidelity and a revolutionary spirit have made such inroads in these

And, what countries,

is

that

half

of the

nominally Romish, has religion.

This

may

in

population,

reality

though

broken with

be seen in France, which

all is

still

true

almost

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