Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 202

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§ 50.

THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE

[Div. II

objective unity of result born from multiformity, in the face is common to both. To both the general subject of science is, and always will be, the human mind at large and not the ego of the individual The rule is also common to both, that the investigator. human mind does not operate except through the subject of

of all the disturbance of subjectivity,

individual investigators, and that these, according to their

and habits of life, can severand limited, a very subjecally bring in but a very small tively tinted and one-sidedly represented, contribution to This many-sided variety gives the final harvest of science. rise to divers antitheses and contradictory representations, which for a time establish themselves in the institutions and schools, which are in process of time superseded by other antitheses, and from which again new institutions and Thus there is continual friction and conschools are born. stant fermentation, and under it all goes on the process of an entirely free development, which is in no wise bound except by its point of departure, whether in uni-egenerate Let no one think, thereor in regenerate human nature. differences of disposition, of age,

fore, that Christian science, if

which takes palingenesis

we may

so call the science

as its point of departure, will all

at once lead its investigators to entirely like

This

results.

is

and harmonious

impossible, because with the regenerate

manner of which one lives, remain the same and because Christian science would be no science, if it did not go through a process by which it advanced from less to more, and if it were not free in its investigation, with the That exception of being bound by its point of departure. his point as which the prosecutor of Christian science takes also, the differences of subjective disposition, of life,

and

of the age in

of departure

is

to

him

as little a result of science as to the

naturalist; but he, as well as the naturalist, his results of science

Only

let it be

must obtain

by investigation and demonstration.

remembered, that not every subjective repre-

sentation which announces itself as scientific

is

a link in the

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