Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 215

OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY

Chap. IV]

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oro-auic process of life, it could not be otherwise

vmcertainty at the boundaries, which ganic division, here also shows itself.

is

the

mark

than

tliat

of all or-

Should the Medical and of the

faculty teach psychology for the sake of psychiatry

psychical influences

upon the body ?

Does the philosophy

of

nature and of law belong to the Philological, or to the Psychical and Juridical faculty ? Is the place for Church-law in the Theological faculty or in the Juridical facult}", which itself originated from it as the " Decretorum facultas," and which

many years it claimed in the title of iiiris utriusque doctor f These questions, together with many others, have all been solved in a practical way such as is of course open to critical examination by self-conscious science in its Encyclopedia, but such as a closer investigation claims an ever-increasing re-

for

spect for the accviracy that

The Encyclopedia

marks the decision

of the sciences

is safest,

of practice.

therefore,

when

it

does not abandon this historic track marked out by pracspeculative scheme, in which the organic-genetic tice.

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the sciences are fitted to another last, would have almost no other value than to evoke our admiration relations of

for the ingeniousness of the writer.

Thus various

titles of

departments would be obtained, for which there are no departments of study. In our review of the history of Theologic Encyclopedia,^ it has been seen that, in the study of Theology also, such speculations have not been spared, and numerous departments for new and imaginary branches of study have been

formed

;

but, meanwhile, practice has

its way, and real study has This would been best served by this practical division. not be so, if the object and the subject of science, and also the development of life and of the consciousness of life, stood in no necessary relation to each other but since this all-sided relation cannot be denied, and the process of science and the process of life almost always keep equal step, history offers us an important objective guarantee of accuracy. There is a power that directs the course of our life-

continued the even tenor of

;

1 In the translation this review of the history of Theologic Encyclopedia, occupying the original 432 pages, has been omitted.

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