Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 204

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THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE

§ 50.

face of those of other tendencies. this

One may even say

that

maintains the spiritual communion beare ecclesiastically separated and estranged

scientific labor

tween those who from each other.

ment

[Div. II

And

if

this is objected to

by the

state-

that the prosecutors of this science often assume the that they only possess

position over against one another,

truth in

its

absolute form, the threefold remark

in place:

is

realm the students of naturalistic science them also one school often stands over against the other with the pretence of Secondly, that we must dispublishing absolute truth. tinguish between what the student of Christian science First, that in their

often do the same thing; that with

professes as a church-member,

and what he

investigation.

result of his scientific

place also, that idealism in science

But,

offers as the

in

the

third

demands that every man

of conviction shall firmly believe that, provided their devel-

opment be normal, every other investigator must reach the same result as he. He who shrinks from this cannot affirm that he holds the result of his own investigation as true; He who in his own conception has he becomes a sceptic. not stepped out from his subjectivity in order to grasp the And though it be entirely eternally true, has no conviction.

true that history plainly teaches, that the ripest and noblest

own human

conviction has never escaped the one-sidedness of one's subjectivity,

the inextinguishable impulse of our

nature never denies

itself,

but sees truth in that which

it

has grasped for itself as truth.

Hence the

result

we

reach

is,

that the effort which reveals

our nature to obtain a scientific knowledge of the cosmos by investigation and demonstration, is ever bound to the premises in our nature from whicli this eft'ort starts itself in

out.

That

for this

reason this effort leads to a

common

practice of science, as far as these premises remain equal,

but must divide itself as soon as the fork is reached where the change effected in these premises by palingenesis begins

That for this part of the two kinds of scientific study run and one which is not, governed by

to influence the investigation.

investigation, therefore, parallel,

one which

is,

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