Calvinism - pagina 120

— CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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So much

sense

Calvinistic

a

In

we understand hereby,

that

of

Society.

the business, science, art and so forth are

family,

which do not owe

social spheres,

all

now-

of the State.

to sovereignty in the sphere

come the

We

for the sovereignty

their existence to

the State, and which do not derive the law of their Hfe

from

superiority

the

authority within their rules,

by the grace

of the

but

state,

own bosom

;

obey a high

an authority which

of God, just as the sovereignty of

the State does.

This involves the antithesis between State and Society^ but

upon

this

condition, that

we do not

conceive this

society as a conglomerate, but as analysed in

its

organic

honour, in each of these parts, the independent

parts, to

character,

which appertains to them.

In this independent character a special higher authority

of necessity

is

intentionally spheres,

in

expressed life

involved and this highest authority sovereignty

call

order that that

these

it

may

in

the

individual social

be sharply and decidedly

different

developments

have nothing above themselves but

6^^<^,

domain.

As you

feel at

once, this

of social

and that the

State cannot intrude here, and has nothing to in their

we

is

command the deeply

interesting question of our civil liberties, i) It is

here of the highest importance sharply to keep

mind the difference in grade between the organic life of society and the mechanical character of the govern-

in

l)

Cf.

Dr.

constitutional

A.

KuijrER.

liberties,

spheres of Society, iSSo,

1873,

Calvinism

the

and Dr. A.

source

and garantce of our

Klijier, Sovereignty in the

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