Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 42

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§ 9.

in every

DEVELOPMENT OF

way

TPIE

ORGANIC IDEA

to give expression to this consciousness

[Div.

I

by the

actual collection of the several fragments of this one knowl-

edge in one work, or more correctly by reflecting it in one speculum and since the arrangement of this crude mass of itself demanded an account of the manner in which these members of this one body were related, the ever-increasing burden of ready knowledge needed to be thrown from the ;

—

human mind could be sufficiently free, with ever more definiteness of purpose, to choose this relation as the object of investigation. Two phenomena hastened this process. On the one hand, the advent of the alphabetici, who, for the sake of making their books usable, purposely abandoned the systematic track and at an early period sought the Ariadne-thread for the labyrinth of their articles in the a b c and on the other hand the revival of the philosophical tendency that marks the second half of the eighteenth censhoulder before the

;

tury.

board,

When the alphabetici cast the systematic method overAnd when the it was natural for others to fish it up.

philosophical tendency everywhere went,

down

to the root, the

duty lay

at

hand

by way

of the trunk,

of finding a principle

according to which the sciences themselves might be divided.

For a long time the remembrance of the word Encyclopedia was altogether lost. Used to a material encyclopedia, men thought that the encyclopedic domain was abandoned as soon as they withdrew from the bazaar for the sake of the excluThe realsive studj^ of the invoice of the goods on hand. lexicographers, who had abandoned the Encyclopedic idea, were reputed the only persons still entitled to the name of Encj^clopedists, while the actual Encyclopedists, who gave themselves to the study of the organism of the sciences, did not dream of taking possession of their title. Joliann August Ernesti wrote under the title of Initia doctrinae solidioris (1736), and his friend J. M. Gessner treated his subject as Primae lineae isagoges in eruditionem universalem (1745), thus furnishing actual encyclopedia without a In his single thought about the name of Encj'clopedia.

Kurzer Inbegriff oiler Wissenschaften (1756), which is followed in the main by Reimarus, Kliigel, Biisch and Buhle,

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