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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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was to

that

Thus

reached.

t/iis

m

and

direct the course of future events;

the rise of Calvinism

stadium appears to have been

every forward movement had gone

far

Church or Science,

forth from the authorities in State,

and from thence had descended to the people.

In Cal-

vinism on the other hand the peoples themselves stand out

own,

their life

broad ranks and from a spontaneity of

their

in

and

press

forward to

In

people.

form of

a higher

had

Calvinism

conditions.

rise

its

Lutheran countries the magistrate was

the leader in public advances, but in Swifeerland, the

Huguenots,

and

Scotland created

the

Belgium,

in

also

in

in

the

They seemed

impetus.

nobility

for

oppressed,

in

some

Netherlands,

in

to have matured;

were of age.

cases, as in the Netherlands, the

moment took an

a their

still

among

America the peoples themselves

to have reached the period in which they

Even when

social

wit/i the

activity

ended

heroic stand for the in

nothing,

and the

people alone, by undaunted energy, broke the barrier,

and among these heroic initiative ledges,

it

was the "common folk" to whose

William the

owed the

Silent, as

he himself acknow-

success of his undertaking.

Hence as a central phenomenon in the development of humanity Calvinism is not only entitled to an honourable position by the side of Paganistic, Islamistic

and Romanistic forms, peculiar

principle

hke these

since

it

also meets every required condition for the

of

represents a

dominating the whole of

human development

to

a

life,

but

it

advancement

higher stage.

And

yet

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