Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 102

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§ 39.

ORGANIC RELATION

[Div. II

clink the thought over again, hj which the Subject defined If there these relations when he called them into being.

were no thought embedded in the

object,

it

could not be

our thinking'. As little as our ear is able to perceive color, is our thinking able to form for itself a And it is this very sense, inconception of the object. dio-estible to

separable from our consciousness, from which springs the invincible impulse, seen in all science, to understand the in the sense that the cosmos exists oiili/ This would amount to a cosmos that consists And since relations are unthinkable purely of relations. unless elements are given between which these relations form the connection, the inexorable claim lies in the relations themselves, and in our thinking as such, that there must also be elements that do not allow themselves to be converted into relations, and therefore lie outside of the field of our All we say is, that nothing exists without relathinking. tions; that these relations are never accidental, but always

Not

cosmos.

logically.

and that the cosmos, as cosmos, in its collective elements exists logically, and in this logical existence is susceptible to being taken up into our world of thought. The result of all science, born from our observation and from our study of the relations of what has been observed,

oro-anic:

He who aims at anything is always certain beforehand. but the study of the organic world of thought that lies in the cosmos, until his own world of thought entirely corresponds to it, is no man of science but a scientifical adventurer; a franc-tireur not incorporated in the hosts of thinkers.

The

fact that it is possible for us to study the

world of

thought lying objectively before us, proves that there is an immediate relation between our consciousness and objective thinking by which the cosmos sciousness

we had

is

cosmos.

If in

our con-

the receptivity only for empirical impres-

and invisible world, we could not hope understanding of the cosmos, i.e. of the world Aside from the susThis, however, is not so. as cosmos. ceptibility to impressions of all kinds, our consciousness is

sions of the visible for a logical

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