Calvinism a life-system - pagina 118

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

114 Caesar,

an Asiatic despot,

in

in

a tyrant as Philip ot

or in a dictator like Napoleon.

Spain,

All these were

but forms, in which the one State-idea incorporated the

stages

But

in

whatever form

revealed

itself;

of development in a never ending process.

the

itself,

this mystical

being of the State

remained supreme: the State

idea

and

sovereignty

member

every

shortly asserted

its

of the State,

remained the touchstone of wisdom to

it

for

way to this State-apotheosis. Thus all transcendent right in God,

give

oppressed other

right,

down

in

contents right,

the

up

the

his

face,

falls

The law harmony with

law.

are in

but because

very

which the

to

There is no but the immanent right which is written

lifted

it

opposite,

is lazv.

right,

is

*

not because

on the morrow

must be

fruit of this deadening theory

is,

that the consciousness of right

is

is

good, because

of God, of

it

is

blunted, that

decide

itself,

how our

life

And when you

That which

proof

is

is

created us and

knows

will of the State,

us,

exists will

but

it

which, having

becomes God, and has to

actually

and our existence

shall be.

further consider that this mystical State

expresses and enforces further

higher

no longer the

becomes the ever-changing no one above

fixed-

all all

and

it

the

as a matter of course,

extinguished.

exists;

Him Who

fixes

it

And

right.

ness of right departs from our minds, and that

enthusiasm for right

its

the eternal principles of

If

this also

away.

its will

demanded

only through

men — what

that this state-sovereignty,

even as popular sovereignty, does not outgrow the abasing subjection of

man

to his fellow-man

and never ascends to a

duty of submission which finds its cogency in the conscience.-'

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