Calvinism - pagina 117

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CALVINISM AND POLITICS. answer for yourself the question lution

resulted

liberty

in

country

in

anything

II

Has the French Revo-

:

but the shackling of

else

the irons of State-omnipotence?

in

Indeed no

19th century, has had a sadder State-

our

history than France.

No wonder from

that scientific

this fictitious

sovereignty of the people, since the

De Savigny and

days of

Germany has broken away The

Niebuhr.

Historical school,

founded by these eminent men, has pilloried thea-prioristic fiction

of 1789. Every historical connoisseur

now

ridicules

Only that which they recommended instead of bears no better stamp. it.

Now

it

it,

was to be not the sovereignty of the people,

but the Sovereignty of the State, pantheism.

philosophical

Ideas

product of Germanic

a,

are incarnated

in

the

and among these the idea of the State was the

reality,

highest, the richest, the

most perfect idea

of the relation

man and man. Thus the State became a mystical conception. The State was considered as a mysterious

between

with

being,

a hidden

ego;

with a

Sta.te-co7isczous7iess,

slowly developing; and with an increasing potent Statezui//,

which by a slow process endeavoured to blindly

reach the highest Stdite-aim.

stood

as

Rousseau,

with

individuals.

It

to

The people was not be the sum total

was correctly seen that a people

aggregate, but an organic whole.

of necessity

have

its

the

organic members.

will of the State operates,

must bow before might reveal

itself

this will. in

This

of the is

no

This organism must

Slowly these

organs arrived at their historic development. organs,

under-

By

these

and everything

sovereign

State-will

a republic, in a monarchy, in a 8

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