Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 53

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SCIENTIFIC

CHARACTER

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For a hiatus remains in our scientific consciousness as long mind of man has not investigated with its thinking not only the whole of the rest of the K6crfio<?, but also the If from this processes of its own thought upon this Koafio-i. as the

the necessity arises for

man

to begin a scientific investiga-

tion of himself as a thinkiiig being

and

of the laivs ivhich his

then there follows from this at the same time the demand that he shall make science itself an object of investigation and exhibit to his consciousness the organism thinking obeys,

of science.

Man, indeed, with the

the Encyclo-

first rise of

pedic impulse, dealt with the mass of general knowledge, which was at his disposal as a chaos, but now science itself Science is distinguished from as object takes its place. general knowledge by the fact that science puts the emphasis

upon the order in that knowledge. Science is systematic, The native physician i.e. it is knowledge orderly arranged. only with flesh and bone, deals Africa in negroes among the physician deals American European or while the scientific founded upon the is with a body, and his medical science organic existence of the body. In the same way the dilettantEncyclopedist asks merely after the knowledge at hand, while the Encyclopedist that

as science.

of

who

is

a

man

of science interprets

knowledge as a system, and understands

the

And

consequently which one

it

this decides the question as to

four interj^retations

of

Encyclopedic arrangement

mentioned in § 15 is scientifically correct. Let a fairly complete collection of medicines be brought together, all of

which are well known

to you,

and

let it be

your duty to arrange this chaos of medicines scientifically. How will you do it? Will you sort the medicines according to the several patients, one of whom will require this, the other that? Will you sort them according to the manner in Avhich they are put up, bottles with bottles, powders with

powders ? Or will you imitate the druggist, who gives them By no means. places most conveniently at hand for sale?

The

first

assortment, according to the patients,

the messenger

who

is

is

proper for

to bring the medicines to the houses

the second assortment

is

convenient for transporting medi-

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