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There is found hidden in Calvinism an impulse, an inclination, an incentive, to scientific investigation.

Abraham Kuyper — Lectures on Calvinism (Stone Lectures, 1898)

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Primary text - Lecture IV: Calvinism and Science, p. 110

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