Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 178

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§ 48.

TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE

[Div. II

human reach, so that man is passive under it under grafting, the human mind is not quickened by it to action, and consequently must array itself in opposition to it. The dilemma is the more perplexing, since he who has been wrought upon by palingenesis can never convince of it him who has not been similarly wrought upon, because an action wrought upon us from without the human sphere, does not lend itself to analysis by our human conoutside of our

as a tree

sciousness; at least not so far as

it

concerns the

common

ground on which men with and without palingenesis can understand each other. They who are wrought upon by palingenesis can in no wise avoid, therefore, conveying the impression of being proud and of exalting themselves. The Edelreis everywhere offends the Wildling^ not merely in that measure and sense in which a finely cultured, aesthetically developed person offends the uncouth parvenu; for with these the difference

is

a matter of degree, so that as a rule

the parvenu envies the aristocrat, and so secretly recognizes

and

this

is

and always

Avill

be one of principle.

his higher worth; but,

ence in hand

is

the fatality, the differ-

Wildling also grows and blooms, and as a rule

its

The

foliage

is

more luxuriant, while in its specific development the Edelreis is not seldom backward. We speak none too emphatically, therefore, when we speak of two kinds of people. Both are human, but one is inwardly different from the other, and consequently feels a different content rising from his consciousness thus they face the cosmos from different points of view, and are impelled by different impulses. And the fact that there are two kinds of people occasions of necessity the fact of two kinds of human life and consciousness of life, and of two kinds of science ; for which reason the idea of the unity of ;

science^

taken in

its

fact of palingenesis,

absolute sense, implies the denial of the

and therefore from principle leads

rejection of the Christian religion.

to the

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