Calvinism - pagina 102

THIRD LECTURE.

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

My enters

third lecture leaves the sanctuary of religion

upon the domain of the State

from the sacred

Only

now

— the

first transition

circle to the secular field of

therefore

we

proceed,

combat the

principle,

to

Calvinism

represents

human

summarily

life.

and

in

suggestion,

that

ecclesiastical

and

unhistorical

an exclusively

and

dogmatic movement.

The

religious

beneath its

momentum

political

of Calvinism has placed, also

Society, a fundamental conception,

own, just because

it

all

not merely pruned the branches

and clean the stem, but reached down to the very root of our

human

That

this

had

everyone who political

life.

is

to

he so

able

to

becomes evident appreciate

at once to

the fact that no

scheme has ever become dominant, which was

not founded in a specific religious or antireligious con-

And Calvinism, may

ception.

it

has effected

that

this

has been the

appear from the in

fact,

political

as regards

changes which

those three historic lands of political

freedom, the Netherlands, En^gland and America.

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