But I still hope that in the long run the good idea will win. And he refers to a volte face in the direction of socialism and away from whatever the school favored or seemed to favor in times past. Traditional Calvinism was naturally individualistic. They believed in the Biblical law of love, thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself , and had no interest in, thou shalt love thy neighbor according to his wishes, which is the socialist law. These were men, influenced by Kuyperian ideas, who basically had a different philosophy than native Americans.
Recent immigrants represent ideas still more interventionist.
To a typical American the ideas of many of these newcomers appear to be plain socialism. Apparently, those ideas are in line with what is taught at the Free University of Amsterdam. The sober fact is that Anti-Revolutionary ideas never won any real battles against the main thrust of the French Revolution. The Anti-Revolutionary party's ideas about society were from the beginning confusilated. In what follows we attempt to put the problem in perspective as we see it.