Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 209

OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY

Chap. IV]

the practical need of

life,

185

and whose development

quence has been so greatly retarded. logic in this practical need of life, and

If

in conse-

there were no

if it were not connected with the organic motive of science itself, this dependence of the school upon life would be most fatal, and

would obstruct the smooth progress

of scientific investiga-

The

practical need of life born from the relation in which the subject stands to the object, and from the necessary way in which the subject (humanity) develops itself organically from itself. It must tion.

This, however,

not so.

is

is

be conceded that the claims which this practical need causes

always considered in the accurate order of and that only after several fits and starts do they assume a more normal character but the result also shows that science has made all these fluctuations with them, and only when the practical need of life has begun to express itself to be felt, are not

succession,

;

in clearer language, and, consequently, with clearer self-conit assumed a more normal character. This would certainly have proved a difficulty, if the slow ripen-

sciousness, has

ing of this clear insight into the claims of practical need

were bound to any other law than that which governs the development of science itself but it has created no disturbance, since both the development of these practical needs and the development of science have been governed by the selfsame power, i.e. by the actual mode of existence and or;

Every encj'clopedical which aims to be something more than a specimen of mental gymnastics, will therefore in the main always proceed from the practical division given historically in the academical faculties. Not as though this division were simply to be copied for this division, which has already been modified so often, is alwaj^s susceptible of further modiganic relation of object and subject. division of the sciences,

;

but these future modifications also will not abstractly demands of your scheme, but will be permanently governed by the demands of practical need and only vv^hen your schematic insight has modified the form in which the practical need of life asserts itself, fication;

regulate themselves according to the

;

will this insight,

through the medium of practical

life,

be

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