Calvinism a life-system - pagina 153

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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you recognize that the cosmos, instead of being a heap of stones, loosely thrown together, on the contrary our mind a monumental building erected

presents to

a severely

in

point

what

then

to happen,

is

it

uncertain

is

your

capricious

man may .

then

is

choose

then

certain way, but

it

the

this

reverse.

If

There

nothing.

is

is

what

take,

in store for

you,

at large.

Man's

the principal concern.

Every

and act every moment

were

may do just

he

also possible that

in a

you could count upon

so,

no interconnection, no development,

And now

me, what becomes of science under such conditions

You may study

of

yet

has been

Hfe

Nothing but bare

time for

it.

But

about man's free it

is

development of science ously

decided in favor

to enter just

We

will.

a fact that the in

then be histor-

no

and plan have

moment propose

a

a discussion

into

may

facts

History dies away.

longer a place in history. for

made ambiguous and

interconnection

ascertained,

do not

.<*

speak of the study of nature, but the

human

uncertain. ically

I

this

any moment,

a chronicle, but no history.

no continuity; tell

may have

your country, the world

will

at

what course things may

every morning and evening family,

Do you abandon

consistent style.

of view,

now

have no

more thorough

our age has almost unanim-

of Calvinism

regard

with

to

the antithesis between the unity and stability of God's decree, which Calvinism professes,

and

looseness,

and the

superficiality

which the Arminians preferred.

systems of the great modern philosophers to

one,

History

in

favor

of the

of

unity

Civilization

in

and

are,

stability.

The almost

Buckle's

England has succeeded

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