Calvinism a life-system - pagina 104

CALVINISM AND TOLITICS.

103

then

First

which

sphere,

deduced

a

Sovereignty in that poHtical

defined

is

the

as

And

State.

then

we

admit that the impulse to form states arises from man's

which was expressed already by Aristotle,

social nature,

when he

men

created

by

called

'•'^wsv Tro^.iTizov.^^

man might have been was not the

Man

is

created from man, and

by

we form one living

case.

virtue* of his birth

not only with those

Juunanity,

now, but also with

Just as

individually called

organically united with the whole race.

is

side

and third and

created, the second

existence; but this

into

God might have

coherence.

without genealogical

was separately

every further

he

a

as disconnected individuals, standing

and

side

Adam

man

Together

who

are

the generations behind us

all

who shall come after us, — pulverized into millions though we may be. All the human race is from one blood. The conception of States, however,

and with

which

all

those

subdivide

continent

the

Then only would

idea.

realized

politically,

world, and

if

if

into

continents,

and each

not harmonize with this

does

the organic unity of our race be

one

State could embrace

all

the

the whole of humanity were associated in

one world- empire. this

earth

morsels,

into

Had

sin

not intervened, no doubt,

would actually have been

so.

If sin,

as a disinte-

had not divided humanity into

grating

force,

sections,

nothing would have marred or broken the organic

unity of our race.

And the

different

mistake of the Alexanders, and

of the Augusti, and of the Napoleons was not, that they

were charmed with the thought of the but

it

was

this

C?;^^

World-empire^

— that they endeavoured to realize this idea

notwithstanding that the force of sin had dissolved our unity.

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