Calvinism a life-system - pagina 207

CALVINISM AND ART. but a most therefore artistic

power

s'erious

our present existence, and

in

must maintain,

principal variations

its

life;

in their

relation with the principal

a close

expression,

variations of our entire

20$

and

since,

without exception,

human

these principal variations of our entire

existence

our relation to God, would

dominated by

it

not

be both a degradation and an nnderestimatlon of

art,

are

if

you were

the

imagine the ramifications,

to

art-trunk

divides

root

which

deepest

human

all

which

into

be independent of the

to

itself,

life

has

God?

in

Consequently no art-style has sprung from the Rationalism of

of the

1

however

and

1789,

century,

19th style

of her

then

only

her

all

artistic

charm when she allows

Thus by

grievous

it

to

efforts

have ended

own,

do her

wonders of the

nor from the principle

century,

8th

may

in

to

our

new

art-

be a

create

perfect failure, andT

productions possess a real

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

w^s

this

this

were otherwise,

my

a

power life

life-movement, in the

still

be

illogical,

For how can you found

all

the

men and

origin

of

desire

of

its

human

all

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

and the inspiration for

its life

outside

exceedingly important a domain as that

of God the mighty arts? in so

dow

which

arraignment of

pulse, the passion

•of

would

second argument, to demand such a

secular tendency of Calvinism.

that

it

There remains,

therefore,

no sha-

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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