Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 219

Chap. IV]

§ 53.

everything that

human

is

THE FIVE FACULTIES

connected with language

is

the vehicle of

consciousness, the study of this vehicle does

means end the study

human

195

that

of

consciousness

by no That form and

itself.

consciousness also as such, according to

its

comprehensive content, must be made the object of investigation, and this necessitates the formal and material study of philosophy. Above all it should be taken into consideration that

it is

not the consciousness of a single individual, but the

man as such, and hence of humanity in its reand continuous process, that is to be known and this gives rise to the task of Histor3^ Hence it is the one Logos, taken as the consciousness of humanity, which provides the motive for Linguistic and Historic and Philosophic studies so that no reasonable objection can be raised against the name of " Logoi " was indeed the word used Philological faculty. originally for an historical narrative, and this gave historians consciousness of

lation

;

;

the

name

of Logographers.

In

way

this

the combination of

and Philosophic studies does not lead to an aggregate, but to an organic unity, which in an excellent manner locates a principal group of the object of science in a realm of its own. It is man in antithesis with nature, and Linguistic, Historic,

man his logical, in antithesis with his bodily manifestation, which determine the boundaries of this realm. The unity that lies in this may not be abandoned. Meanwhile let it be observed, that the task of this faculty in

should not be extensively, but intensively interpreted. object of

its

existence

is

language, nor the investigation of

all history,

systematizing of the whole content of the ness.

The Faculty,

The

not the study of every conceivable

as such,

must

nor yet the

human

conscious-

direct its attention to

humanity taken as an organic unity, and thus must concentrate its power upon that in which the

the consciousness of

process of this

not cast its

human

plummet

the stream of

human

consciousness exhibits

itself.

away out

in

Its attention is not riveted

by

into a stagnant pool, but life.

It does

what vegetates in isolation, but by that which lives and assowith and operates within the life of humanity. For this reason the classical and richly developed languages from

ciates

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