Calvinism - pagina 248

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

244

arrived at what

modern

callad

is

life^

involving a radical

breach with the Christian traditions of the Europe of the

The

past.

marked by the

modern

of this

spirit

fact that

life

most

is

man

seeks the origin of

it

clearly

not in

creation after the image of God but in evolution from the

Two

animal. I.

fundamental ideas are clearly implied in

that the point of depature

the

and the low;

but the material

divine,

sovereignty

God,

of

ought

which

and man yields himself

denied,

no longer the

is

to

hand the

life

is

now being

and processus

University-circles, attainable

ideas a

fertile

On

evolved.

by the more

this,

is

in in-

the one

and highly-organized

interesting, rich,

only; and at the side of

that the

2.

be supreme,

Out of the root of these two

double type of

ideal or

to the mystical current

of an endless process, a regressus fiiiitnm.

this:

life

refined

of

minds

or rather far beneath

it,

a materialistic Hfe of the masses, craving after pleasure,

own way,

but, in their

ture in matter,

and

likewise, but after their

fashion,

emancipating

nances.

Especially

this

second type of

also taking their point of depar-

themselves

in life

from

all

own

fixed ordi-

our ever-expanding large

shape

public

to

character

opinion,

more openly

Money, pleasure and of pursuit

objects

less fastidious

them.

the

eve

of

in

social

which avows

its

is

giving

ungodly

each successive generation.

power, these alone are the

and people are constantly growing

regarding the means employed to secure

Thus the

less audible,

;

cities

gaining the upper hand, and,

is

overriding the voice of the country-districts, and a

cynical

voice of conscience becomes less and

and duller the the

lustre of the eye

French revolution

still

which on

reflected

some

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