Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 192

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§ 49.

palingenesis. tions of our if

TWO KINDS OF

SCIENCE

[Div. II

This would not be true if the deepest foundaknowledge lay outside of us and not in us, or

the palingenesis operated outside of these principia of

knowledge

in the subject.

Since, however, this

whose result

case, because, like sin,

it

not the

is

potentially destroys,

palingenesis causes the subject to be different in his inner-

most

self

from what he was before

;

and because

this disposi-

tion of the subject exercises an immediate influence

and our

scientific investigation

scientific

conviction

;

upon these

two unlike magnitudes can have no like result, and from this difference between the two circles of subjects there follows of necessity difference between their science. This bifurcation must extend as far as the influence of those subjective factors which palingenesis causes to be different in one than in the other.

Hence

all scientific

research

which has things seen only as object, or which is prosecuted simply by those subjective factors which have undergone no change, remains the same for both. Near the ground the tree But no sooner has it reached a cerof science is one for all. branches separate, in the same way than two height, tain which is grafted on the right side, as may be seen in a tree while on the left side there is allowed to grow a shoot from the wild root.

In

its

lowest parts the tree

is

one, but at a

and in this twofold development one branch grows side by side with the other. Which of these two is to be considered the wild development, is to be accounted as failing of its end and to be cut away, and which the truer development of the tree that shall bear fruit, cannot be decided by one for the other. The negative for

given height

it

divides

itself,

the one determines here the positive for the other.

This,

however, is the same for both, and the choice of each is not governed by the results of discursive thought, but exclusively

by the

deepest impulse of the life-consciousness of each.

in that deepest impulse the one

choice

would be the same.

That

were it

is

like

the other, the

different, is

because they are constitutionally different.

If

simply

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