Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 183

Chap.

TWO KINDS OF

§ 49.

Ill]

SCIENCE

159

espy the relation among certain actions of our senses and the psychic reactions which follow, etc., are altogether activities which in a sense bear an objectiA^e character, and are

dominated by the influence of what is individual This should not be granted too absolutely, and the determination whether an objective document is genuine or not, or whether the contents of it must be but

little

in the investigating subject.

translated thus or so,

is

in

many

cases not susceptible to

But provided the study

such an absolute decision.

of the

objective side of the spiritual sciences does not behave itself

unseemly and contents

within its boundaries, it claims our joyful recognition, that here also a broad realm of study opens

itself,

of thinkers,

itself

the results of which are benefits to both groups

and thus

also to the

two kinds of

This must be emphasized, because

it

is

science.

in the interest of

science at large, that mutual benefit be derived cles

from what

ence.

What

is

by both

cir-

contributed to the general stock of

sci-

has been well done by one need not be done

again by you.

It is at the

not hesitating to part it,

same time important

company

though demands

that,

as soon as principle

the two kinds of science shall be as long as possible con-

scious of the fact that, formally at least, both are at

common

work

at

with reference to this that to the twi already mentioned common realms a third one should bj added, which is no less important. The formal process of thought has not been attacked by sin, and for this reason palingenesis works no change in this mental task. There is but one logic, and not two. If this simply ima

task.

It is

plied, that logic properly so called as a subdivision of the

philosophical or psychological sciences, does not need to be

studied in a twofold way, the benefit would be small the more because this is true to a certain extent only, and because all manner of differences and antitheses present themselves at once in the methodological investigation. But the ;

influence of the fact aforementioned extends

and contributes

in

much

two ways important service

farther,

in

main-

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