Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 36

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CONCLUSION

§ 7.

idea of system

[Div. I

became the chief aim in Encyclopedia; and from much only was taken as was

the material of each science so

necessary for the proper understanding of

its

organic

life.

This idea, which answered so fully the need of our time, extended itself, though slowly, from science in general to Special Encyclopedias also ceased

the individual sciences. to be compendia,

and more and more took the form

entific investigation into the

of sci-

nature of these special sciences.

There were differences in the proportionate treatment of In several what was formal and material in a science. Encyclopedias the resume of the general data of a science was still very extensive, while from other Encyclopedias But, even with this by no it almost entirely disappeared. means insignificant difference, the idea of system came more and more to be viewed by almost every one as the distinguishing mark of

tlie

Encyclopedical treatment.

while with Alstedt Encyclopedia it

is still

has come to be more and more the

Thus,

name of a hooh, name of a separate

the

iicience.

§ 7.

Conclusion

This brief review of the use of the word Encyclopedia The use of this word has leads to the following result.

Greek group of subjects attached the significance to of knowledge whose scope was determined by the circle of the life of the Athenian citizen. (2) The rise of Christian Theology extended this significance to the entire heathenclassical science in distinction from Theology. (3) Reviving Humanism used it in the sense of Compendium^ and, with a weak effort to furnish a systematic exposition, it embraced under it the entire Humanistical knowledge. (4) During the most flourishing period of Polyhistory, Encyclopedia became the name for an alphabetical agglomerate of what was noteworthy in every subject in general, with the excluAnd, finally (6), sion of almost all conception of system. through the rise of the newer philosophy the word Encyclopedia became the name of an independent science, which has passed

through

five

stages.

it

(1)

Originally the

of a certain

for its object of investigation all other science.

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