Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 208

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ORGANIC DIVISION

§52.

appear in the result of the organically

The

object exists

the subject itself exists organically and stands

;

organically

scientific task.

[Div. II

related

to

the

object;

and consequently

this

organic character must be found again, as soon as the knowl-

edge of the object has been attained by the subject with The unity of tliese sufficient completeness and accuracy. three reveals itself historically in the scientific task, which

did not begin by making these distinctions clear for

but had

its rise in

itself,

the instinctive faith in this mutual rela-

The stimulus to undertake this scientific study is Academy of Sciences, but by our innate As a child breaks his toys and inclination to investigate. cuts them into pieces, in order to find out what they are tionship.

not given by an

and how they are constructed or, as outside of liis playthus is man hour he overwhelms you with questions prompted by a natural impulse to investigate the cosmos. And, though with adults also this desire after knowledge ;

;

may

consist

too largely

of

a

playful inquiry, the

needs

add a nobler seriousness to this playful investigation and by it rule and continuity are imparted to the sciIf the practical need of physicians, lawyers, entific task. ministers of the Word, Academic professors, etc., did not of life

continually press

its

claims, the very existence of universities

would at once be jeopardized. If these w^ere abolished, and with them the avenues to success were closed against those

who

desire to devote their lives to scientific pursuits, a small

group only of competent persons would be able to allow And if the number of sciitself the luxury of this pursuit. entists should thus be reduced, the study of science would likewise suffer from the gradual disappearance of the whole apparatus which is now at its service in libraries, laboraThe vifae non seolae is true also tories, observatories, etc. in the sense that only life gives the school its susceptibility

to

life.

The

ideal representation that science

flourish

when

practised merely for

would

own

still

be able to

sake, rests

upon

best observed in the case of those

self-deception.

This

special sciences

whose study

is

its

is

not immediately born from

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