Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 222

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§ 53.

THE FIVE FACULTIES

into this faculty should be protested against

[Div. II

;

and warnings

should be sounded against entertaining too sanguine expectations from vivisection, and against the altogether too bold

In itself, veterinary surgery exploits which it adventures. would never have become anything more than an empiric knowledge and the insight it derives from the Medical faculty is a mercy which from our human life descends to But Darwinism should never tempt us in suffering animals. man and animal under the concepcoordinate faculty to this tion of "living things." If the human body had not been subject to disease, there would never have been a medical science. Vegetation also has its diseases and invites medical treatment; but wdio will include the healing of plants in the Medical faculty? The human body must remain the excluThe prosive object for the complex of medical studies. plastic forms also, or preformations which were created for this body in the vegetable and animal kingdom, must indeed ;

be investigated with a view to this body, but the studies which this investigation provokes serve exclusively as sub-

and should not be permitted to destroy the boundary between the human body and these preformations. In the same way the boundary should be guarded wdiich divides the somatic life of man from his psychical life. This psychical life is the heritage of the Philological and not If this boundary be crossed, the of the Medical faculty. IMedical faculty must subordinate the psychical phenomena to the somatic life, and cannot rest until, under the pressure sidiary helps,

of

its

own

object,

materialistically.

it

has interpreted this psychical

But neither should

uncertain and mingled region

it

life

be forgotten that an

between the somatic and

lies

Both sides of human life stand in organic relation. The body affects the soul, and the soul the body. Hence, there is on one side a physico-psychical study which must trace the psychical phenomena on physical ground, and on the other side a psychico-physical study which determines And the influence exercised by the soul upon the ho^j. this must serve as a rule, that Psychology derives its physiwhile on the other hand cal data from tlie Medical faculty the psychic

life.

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