Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 180

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TWO KINDS

411.

OF SCIENCE

[Div. II

Each one places his brick in the walls of this buildand always where it belongs, without himself knowing But despite the absence of all architectural or planning it. insight the building goes on, and the house is in process of erection, even though it may never be entirely completed. And both are doing it, they who have been wrought upon by palingenesis, as well as those who have remained un-

fected. ing,

changed.

All this study, in the circle of the one as well as

in that of the other, founds, builds

But we

struction of a whole.

two kinds

and

of people devote their time

the erection of

two

assists in the con-

emiihatically assert that these

and their strength to which pur-

different structures, each of

poses to be a complete building of science.

one of these two

is

If,

however,

asked, whether the building, on which he

labors, will truly provide us

what we need

in the scientific

realm, he will of course claim for himself the high and noble

name

of science, and withhold it from the other. This cannot be otherwise, for if one acknowledged the other to be truly scientific, he would be obliged to adopt the You cannot declare a thing to be scienother man's views. tific gold, and then reject it. You derive your right to reject a thing only from your conviction that that something is not true, while a conviction that it is true would compel you to accept it. These two streams of science, therefore, which run in separate river-beds, do not in the least destroy the principle of the unity of science. it This cannot be done is absolutely inconceivable. We only affirm that formally both groups perform scientific labor, and that they recognize each other's scientific character, in the same way in which two armies facing each other are mutually able to appreciate military honor and military worth. But when they have ;

arrived at their result they cannot conceal the fact that in

many

respects these results are contrary to each other,

are entirely different

;

and

as far as this

is

and

the case, each

group naturally contradicts whatever the other group

asserts.

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