Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 54

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§ 16.

SCIENTIFIC

ciues iu large quantities

;

CHARACTER

[Div. I

and the third assortment

is

neces-

sary in part for the convenient arrangement of bottles and pots ou the drug-store shelves.

three

modes

But even though with these

of sorting, the nature, effect,

and use

of the

medicines are measurably considered, these assortments are For a scientilic arrangement of them the not scientific. physician must enter upon the organic relations of this

world of medicines, and from this derive a principle for determining the arrangement. Applying this to the treasures of accessible knowledge, we find that the Greeks sorted originally according to the need of the patients, i.e. of those who were to be aided by the vatBeia; that the compilers of the great

Compendia sorted according

to the principle of

with bottles and powders with powders, and only paid attention to the necessities of packing; Alstedt and bottles

his followers sorted just like the druggist, according to the

with regard to use in the schools while have taken into account the doubt, a leading thought Without itself. organism of science predominated in the first three assortments, but that leadingthought was not inherent in the treasure of knowledge itself. It could be taken in one way as well as in another, and lacked the mark of necessity, while it did not take sufficient account of the fact that there is an inherent order in our knowledge itself. Just like the negro physician, they belogical arrangement

;

scientific Encyclopedists alone

held flesh and bone, but failed to discern the bod// in them, and therefore could give no account of the skeleton, veins,

and systems of muscles and nerves by which the whole was knit together. As soon, however, as it was seen that we need not bring order into our knowledge, but must merely trace out the order which is already in it. EncycloFrom being investigation into a pedia became scientific. mechanical arrangement, it now became the study of an We now deal with a dominant prinorganic life-relation. ciple, which of necessity, and according to a fixed law, has effected the organic relation, and in this way onl}^ the effort has been born not merely to indicate that relation, but also to trace out both that principle and its working.

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