Calvinism a life-system - pagina 115

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

Ill

any one should still doubt whether or not, the American revolution was homogeneous with that of Paris, if

doubt

this

set at

fully

is

by the

rest,

bitter fight, in

between Jefferson and Hamilton.

1793,

remains, as the

German

Von

historian

"Es ware Thorheit zu sagen dass

Therefore

Holtz stated

Rousseauschen

die

America

Schriften einen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung in ausgeiibt haben."

madness would

C-'Mere

i)

American revolution borrowed

the

that

energy, from Rousseau

himself expressed

it,

and

his writings.")

it

its

Or

he considered

that

it

it:

as

be to say impelling

Hamilton French

''the

Revolution to be no more akin to the American Revoluthan

tion,

the

French novel

faithless wife in a

like

is

the Puritan matron in New-England." 2)

The 'French Revolution

is

in principle distinct

from

all

these national revolutions, which were undertaken with

praying

lips

and with trust

the help of God.

in

French Revolution ignores God.

Von Holtz,

1)

John

2)

Morse,

F.

1

founding of

the

801)

in another letter, quoted

Boston

1S92,

advanced

when upon

I

Christian Constitutional

"When

I

find

Convention,

the

doctrines

the

sword of fanaticism extended

of Liberty;

am

what was

and glad

p.

147.

In a

Bayard (April

Society",

and wrote

invited

to

of Atheism openly

and heard with loud applause;

see

to prostrate

1883,

by Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton,

Parisian

who were

Vereinigtefi Staten

in a letter to

the

citizens,

I

256:

Boston

Jefferson,

Hamilton proposed

"A

It

96.

p.

in

harbingers

that

p.

I

Thomas

positively Christian sense

opposes God.

und Democratie der

Vei-fassjing

von America. Dusseldorf. 1873

It

The

submit

to

to force a political creed

the arms of France as the

when I behold the hand of rapacity outstretched monuments of religious worship, I acknowledge,

ravish the to

the cause

believe,

that

thei-^

of America and

is

no real resemblance , between

the cause

of France".

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