Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 107

Chap.

BETWEEN SUBJECT AND OBJECT

I]

always passive in part,

is

also able to

become

83 active.

As

far as the perception is concerned, this action exerts itself

in our imagination^ it

and

tion

we

create

phenomena

our higher thinking of

as far as the thinking is concerned

exerts itself in our abstract thought.

By

the imagina-

for our consciousness,

we form

relations.

and by

If these products

our imagination and of our higher thinking were without we would have every reason to think that there is

reality,

but one subjective process, which refuses to be more closely defined. But this is not so. The artist creates harmonies of tints,

which presently are seen

to be real in flowers that

were unknown to him. And more striking than this, by our abstract thinking we constantly form conclusions, which presently are seen to agree entirely with actual relations. In this way object and subject stand over against each other as wholly allied, and the more deeply our human consciousness penetrates into the cosmos, the closer this alliance

is seen to both as concerns the substance and morphology of the object, and the thoughts that lie expressed in the relations

be,

of the object.

And

since the object does not produce the

subject, nor the subject the object, the

power that binds the two organically together must of necessity be sought outside of each. And however much we may speculate and po^Klc no explanation can ever suggest itself to our sense, o. all-sufficient ground for this admirable correspondence affinity between object and subject, on which the possibility and development of science wholly rests, until at the hand of Holy Scripture we confess that the Author of the cosmos created man in the cosmos as microcosmos " after his image and likeness."

Thus understood, science presents itself to us as a necessary and ever-contiriued impulse in the human rnind to reflect within itself the cosmos^ plastically as to its elements, and to think

it

through logically as

to its relations ;

understanding that the human mind of its organic affinity

to its object.

is

alivays with the

capable of this by reason

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