Calvinism - pagina 207

CALVINISM AND ART.

203

but a most serious power in our present existence, and therefore artistic

must maintain,

principal variations

its

expression,

a

relation with the principal

close

variations of our entire

life;

and

without exception,

since,

human

these principal variations of our entire

by our

dominated

in their

existence

God, would

it

not

be both a degradation and an tinder estimation of

art,,

are

if

you were

the

to

imagine the ramifications,

to

art-trunk

divides

root

which

deepest

relation

be independent of the

to

itself,

human

all

which

into

life

has

God?

in

Consequently no art-style has sprung from the Rationalism of

of the

1

and however

1789,

19th

century,

style

of

then

only

her

her

all

do her

artistic

it

to

efforts

charm when she allows

Thus by

grievous

have ended

own,

wonders of the

nor from the principle

century,

8th

in

may

to

our

new

art-

be a

create

perfect failure,

and

possess a real

productions

herself to be inspired bij the

past.

itself

the possibility must be denied that

a

proper art-style can originate independently of religion; but even

if

and

was

this

this

were otherwise,

my

a

power life

life-movement, in the

would

still

be

illogical,

second argument, to demand such a

For how can you

secular tendency of Calvinism. that

it

which

arraignment of

found all

the

men and

origin

of

all

desire

of

its

human

before the face of God, should have sought the im-

pulse, the passion

and the inspiration

for

its life

outside

of God in so exceedingly important a domain as that of the mighty arts? There remains, therefore, no sha-

dow

of a reality in the scornful reproach that the non-

creation of an architectural style of its

own

is

a conclusive

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