Calvinism a life-system - pagina 225

CALVINISM AND ART. and

religion,

he desires these

is

three

from one another; on the contrary, what that all human life shall be permeated by

powers

vital

cosmos;

There must be a

together.

Science which will not rest until entire

has thought out the

it

which cannot

a Religion

department of

life,

suggestion

this

of

art

of the

also

advanced

the

development

was

actually

reminder that,

not

able

to

the

could only work with

last

and

point,

viz.,

that

a concrete sense arts.

realm of

role

of the

extension

in

of the

in the

play

wide

my

introduce

has

a

single

religion included.

Calvinism

needs

life;

adopts, into her splendid world, the

life

whole of human

domain

and so

must be an Art which, despising no

also there

until

sit still

human

she has permeated every sphere of

Let

221

of a

It

art,

scarcely

Calvinism

sorcerer,

That the

natural data.

and

Italian

has a more tuneful voice than the Scot, and that the German is carried away by a more passionate impulse

than the Netherlander,

of song

which art had to reckon, under well

as

under that of Calvinism.

which explains

why

it

is

are simple data with

Roman

An

the

differences

of

undeniable

neither logical

reproach Calvinism for that which national

is

character.

supremacy, as fact,

nor honest to

merely due to

The

truth

is

equally plain that, in the Northern countries of Europe, Calvinism was not able to produce, as by magic, marble,

from the ground, and that therefore the arts of sculpture and architecture, which require rich, natural stone, were more readily developed

'porphyry

or

free-stone,

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