Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 40

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§ 8.

THE

APPEARANCE OF THIS IDEA

FIllST

But the human mind does not subject

this field of

[Div. I

knowl-

edge to its greatness all at once. At slow growth. A space of twenty-three centuries separates Plato from Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and Hegel's Ericydojmedie, and Real-Encyclopedia still stands only at the very If Diogenes Laertius l)eginning of its clearer development. (IV. 1, 5) can be believed, Plato already ventured upon a somewhat systematic classification of the several parts of our knowledge in a lost work, AtaXoyoi tmv irepl rrjv Trpayfiareiav o/xoiwv. The same is said of Speusippus, Plato's kinsman, in but since his "Opoi, and of Aristotle in his Ilepl eTnarrjixoiv possible to is not preserved, it not been have these writings much, however, studies. So judge of the tendency of these best

it is

a process of

;

is

certain, that in those circles serious tliinlcing

begun upon the but

it

iraiheia in general

and the

took at once a more practical course.

was already

eTriarrifjLac

as such,

Aristotle indeed

defined the boundary and the task of the several sciences.

And Varro and

Pliny actually put together the contents of

The orgmiism

different parts of knowledge.

plant was not reached

;

itself of

the

flowers were picked and tied to-

way that the relation was found at first almost solely in the cord that was twined about the stems, and a harmonious arrangement of flowers Varro's Rerum after their kinds is scarcely yet suggested. humanarum et divinarum antiquitates and his Bisciplinarum lihri IX have both been lost, and Pliny's Historia naturalis is the only treatise that enables us to form any idea of the

gether as bouquets, but in such a

defectiveness of these

With Hugo

first efforts.

and Vincent of Beauopened to this harmony in classification. That which Marcianus Capella (1406) gives us in his Satyricon, Cassiodorus (f562) in his Institutio divinarum litterariwi, Isidore of Seville (f636) in his Orif/ines, and of St. Victor (tll41)

vais (fl264) the eye

is

Hrabanus Maurus (f856) strives

in

De universo lihri XXII. may be seen from Hraba-

his

indeed after unity, as

but succeeds only in the presentation of a disHugo of St. Victor, on the tasteful and overdone bouquet. other liand, seems to have an eye for the inner relation of

nus'

title,

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