Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 38

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CONCLUSION

§ 7.

[Div. I

The reason which has led to the repeated resumption of word Encyclopedia^ and which finally implanted this

the

organic sense in

it,

in the conception of the kvkXo<;.

lies

That the Greek took that there was present

word to define the TraiSeia, shows mind the idea of what belonged

this

in his

human knowledge and grouped

together within the realm of

The Polyhistor and the about one common centre. alphabetical Real-Encyclopedist weakened this conception.

itself

The

and they who

writers of the old Compendia,

at present

seek in Encyclopedia chiefly the idea of organic relation, cause this original motive of the Greeks to assert itself again,

and

also enlarge

upon

Quintilian already con-

it.

ceived something of the rich development of which this

motive of the «:u/cA,o? was susceptible when he interpreted Encyclopedia by orbis doctrinae." This motive will ever maintain the supremacy in the '-'

meaning

though the sense has

of the word, even

lost for

us something of the riches attached to the kvkXo<; by the

Greek,

especially in

relation

de Legihus, X., p. 898 «). to be anything but a unit,

determines or

bound

its

course,

the

to

If it is if it

and

if

a^alpa (see

Plato,

not possible for science

has an inner impulse which

in this course

it

is

fastened

to a fixed point, as a circle to its centre, there

can be no reason to question the propriety of the devel-

opment of the meaning of this word " Encyclopedia," by which it has come to mean the investigation of the organism of science. it

would be

well,

To avoid confusion of speech, from now on the alphabetical

if

of separate articles

would

call itself

therefore, collection

nothing but Lexicon,

either Real-Lexicon in a general, or Lexicon for Arts

Sciences in a special, sense,

— so

—

and

that Encyclopedia might

be exclusively used as the name of that science which has science itself as its object of investigation.

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