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What I have tried to demonstrate is that the principle of unbelief — the sovereignty of Reason and the sovereignty of the People — while it proclaims Liberty, must end in either radicalism or despotism: in the disintegra…
The Revolution, with its variety of schools of thought and its successive historical manifestations, is the consequence, the application, the unfolding of unbelief.
The Reformation cannot possibly have been the cause of the Revolution, since it sprang from an antithetical principle: from objective unity of faith rather than diversity of subjective opinions; from the infallibility of…
The Reformation wants to be free from Tradition whenever it contradicts the Bible, free from human command whenever it conflicts with the divine commandments. It desires prayerful searching of the Scriptures, not in orde…
All power is of God. A civil power is God's lieutenant and God's minister. In this duality of the relation—its twofold direction, upwards and downwards—lies the whole theory of divine right. We are to obey the higher pow…
Centralization always begins by destroying the rights of provinces and municipalities and, if forced to be consistent, ends by tolerating in fact no right or activity or existence except under its supervision and control…
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What I have tried to demonstrate is that the principle of unbelief — the sovereignty of Reason and the sovereignty of the People — while it proclaims Liberty, must end in either radicalism or despotism: in the disintegra…
The Revolution, with its variety of schools of thought and its successive historical manifestations, is the consequence, the application, the unfolding of unbelief.
The Reformation cannot possibly have been the cause of the Revolution, since it sprang from an antithetical principle: from objective unity of faith rather than diversity of subjective opinions; from the infallibility of…
The Reformation wants to be free from Tradition whenever it contradicts the Bible, free from human command whenever it conflicts with the divine commandments. It desires prayerful searching of the Scriptures, not in orde…
All power is of God. A civil power is God's lieutenant and God's minister. In this duality of the relation—its twofold direction, upwards and downwards—lies the whole theory of divine right. We are to obey the higher pow…
Centralization always begins by destroying the rights of provinces and municipalities and, if forced to be consistent, ends by tolerating in fact no right or activity or existence except under its supervision and control…