On the by Abraham Kuyper
Alas, (and now I come to the second part of my address) we have disrupted this beautiful order. By our guilt the earthly fatherland is no longer oriented toward the heavenly but stands constantly in opposition to it. And according to the rule of the optimi corruptio pessima6 (that is, that the holy, by forsaking its calling, falls the more deeply into sin), human willfulness has time and again forged weapons from the precious ore of our earthly fatherland to fight against the heavenly. And if it were possible, it would erase the memory of [the heavenly fatherland] from the minds of the peoples.
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