Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 191

Chap. Ill]

§ 49.

two kinds few single

TWO KINDS OF SCIENCE

of science

has thus far been

The

points.

vain are examples of

too

much

made only

this.

in a

and Lou-

universities of Brussels

also, a life peculiar to itself

ica a certain division has

167

In Amsterdam and Freiburg,

And

has originated.

But these

begun.

in

Amer-

divisions bear

a churchly or anti-churchly character, and for the

greater " republic of letters " as a

whole they are scarcely yet worthy of mention. Almost everywhere the two stems are still intertwined, and in almost every way the stem which grows from palingenesis is still altogether repressed and overshadowed by the stem of naturalism naturalism being here taken as the expression of life, which, without palinThere was, indeed, a genesis, flourishes as it originated. conservative period in university life, in which the old world-view still thought itself able, by an angry look or by persecution, to exorcise the coming storm and a later period in which by all manner of half concessions and weak ;

;

ajDologetics, it tried to repress the

But

rise

of the naturalistic

which

first tried compuland then persuasion, owed its origin least of all to palingenesis, and thus lacked a spiritual root. At present, Its apologetics lack therefore, itjs_rapidly passing away. It seeks so to comport itself that by the grace of force. Naturalism it may still be only tolerated ; and it deems it no disgrace to skulk in a musty vault of the fortification in which once it bore command.

tendency.

this Conservatism,

sion

Neither the tardiness, however, of the establishment of this bifurcation of science, nor the futile effort of

tism to prolong

its

existence,

Conserva-

can resist the

continuous

The

all-decisive

separation of these two kinds of science.

whether there are two points of departure. If this is 7iot the case, then unity must be maintained by means of the stronger mastering the weaker but if there are two points of departure, then the claim of two kinds of science in the indicated sense remains indisputably valid, entirely apart from the question whether both will succeed in developing themselves for any good result within a given time. This twofold point of departure is certainly given by question here

is

;

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