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That the glass would melt in heat
that the water would freeze in the cold
Shows that this object is merely a state,
One of many, between 2 poles. ...
There is nothing else - there is nowhere else.
Neither One nor the Other.
To err in the wake of the virtual is to be after God - forever after God.

Rousseau´s translation of the sovereign will of the transcendent God (vox dei) into the sovereign will of the people (vox populi) repeats the dialectical reversal, which we have discovered at the heart of Calvin´s theology. When the creator God is so powerful that everything is a representation of his free will, divine and human action become indistinguishable. This far-reaching implications in the 19 century.

If, as Hegel argues, the essence of the Reformation is that man in his very nature is destined to be free, then what began in Wittenberg in the 16 century continued in Philadelphia and Paris in the 18th.