Calvinism a life-system - pagina 117

CALVINISM AND POLITICS. answer

for yourself the question

lution

resulted

liberty

anything

in

13

Has the French Revo-

:

but the shackling of

else

the irons of State-omnipotence?

in

country

in

1

Indeed no

19th century, has had a sadder State-

our

history than France,

No wonder from

that scientific

this fictitious

Germany has broken away

sovereignty of the people, since the

days of De Savigny and Niebuhr.

The

Historical school,

founded by these eminent men, has pilloried the a-prioristic of 1789. Every historical connoisseur now ridicules Only that which they recommended instead of it,

fiction it.

bears no better stamp.

Now

it

was to be not the sovereignty of the people,

but the Sovereignty of the State, a product of Germanic

pantheism.

philosophical

Ideas

are incarnated

in

the

and among these the idea of the State was the

reality,

highest, the richest, the

most perfect idea

of the relation

man and man. Thus the State became a mystical The State was considered as a mysterious

between

conception. being,

with

a hidden

ego;

with a ZtdiiQ-conscious7tess,

slowly developing; and with an increasing potent Statezuill,

which by a slow process endeavoured to blindly

reach the highest StdXQ-aini. stood

as

with

individuals.

It

Rousseau,

to

The people was not underbe the sum total of the

was correctly seen that a people

aggregate, but an organic whole. of necessity

have

its

organic members.

the

will

By

these

of the State operates, and everything

must bow before might reveal

no

Slowly these

organs arrived at their historic development. organs,

is

This organism must

itself

this will. in

This

sovereign

State-will

a republic, in a monarchy, in a

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