Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 130

CHAPTER

II

SCIENCE IMPAIRED BY SIN Science

§ 43.

and Sin

The subjective character which is inseparable from all would have nothing objectionable

spiritual science, in itself

had not been given a most dangerous exponent were no sin, nor any of its results, the subjectivity of A would merely be a variation of the subIn virtue of the organic affinity between jectivity in B. the two, their subjectivity would not be mutually antagonistic, and the sense of one would harmoniously support and In the days of the Reformaconfirm the sense of the other. in

it,

by

sin.

if

it

If there

tion, the

impulse that impelled so many thousands to reform

was preponderantly subjective. these subjects a

common

But the

fact that

conviction aimed at a

in all

common

end,

accounts for the irresistible force that was born from the But, alas, such cooperation of these many subjectivities. is

not the case in the domain of science.

It is all too often

harmony of subjecand for the feeding of

evident, that in this domain the natural tive expression

is

hopelessly broken

;

scepticism this want of harmony has no equal.

By an

investigation of self and of the cosmos you have obtained a

well-founded scientific conviction, but when you state it, it meets with no response from those who, in their wa}^ have investigated with equally painstaking efforts and not only is the unity of science broken, but you are shaken in the For when you spoke your conassurance of your conviction. viction, you did not mean simply to give expression to the ;

insight of your

own

which, indeed,

it

But

ego.,

ought

of necessity

but to the universal human insight; to be, if it were wholly accurate.

we must

accept this hard reality, and in

every theory of knowledge which 106

is

not to deceive

itself,

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