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Quotation from Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper
“the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, and which do not derive the law of their life from the superiority of the state, but obey a high authority within their own bosom, which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”
Lectures on Calvinism, Lecture III, Calvinism and Politics (Calvinism: Six Stone-Lectures (English edition, c. 1898-99), Internet Archive OCR text)
Kuyper's definition of sovereignty in the individual social spheres.
Citation: "the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, and which do not derive the law of their life from the superiority of the state, but obey a high authority within their own bosom, which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does." — Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, Lecture III, Calvinism and Politics (Calvinism: Six Stone-Lectures (English edition, c. 1898-99), Internet Archive OCR text). (id kuyper-lectures-on-calvinism-q4)
Portrait: Abraham Kuyper 1905 (1), Unknown photographer, Public domain.
