Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 199

Chap. Ill]

§ 49.

TWO KINDS OF

SCIENCE

175

factors, it is still entirely true that in the abstract the

two

results of our investigation are beforehand certain, if

we

and

that,

reach other results, our former results are not valid and

our investigation

common both to naturalistic science. The

This, however,

faulty.

is

the science of palingenesis and to

is

actual nature of the cosmos conditions the results of all

and so far as there is question of knowledge which we obtain by thinking, our thinking can never be aught than the q/i(er-thinking of what has been before thought even to such an extent by the Creator of all relations that all our thinking, to the extent that it aims to be and is original, can never be anything but pure hallucination. Hence it is entirely true, that in the domain of palingenesis all investigation,

;

bound to the nature of palinand determined by the real constitution of the it is spiritual world with which it brings us into relation also true, that that which has been well investigated will prove to agree with what has been revealed to us in an nor may it be accurate way from this spiritual world results of investigation are

genesis,

;

;

denied that in this realm

also, all

our thinking can only

be the after-thinking of the thoughts of all this

in

common with

God

the other science,

is

a matter of pre-assumption that there

that a creation took place, that sin reigns, etc.,

same sense in which

readily, but in the all

science

that there

being thinks, that think mistakenl}',

it

is is

it

has

this is

by palingen-

that in the prosecution of science as directed it

all

If the objection be raised

inherent in the nature of science.

esis,

but

;

and

it is

is

a God,

we grant

this

pre-assumed in

possible for this

human human being to

whom

these last-named

a

etc., etc.

human

He

to

being, that that

much

things are not presuppositions, will not so

as put his

hand to the plough in the field of science and such is the case with him who does not know, with greater certainty ;

than he knows his

own

existence, that

God

is

his Creator,

from palingenesis. Facts such as are here named, that there is a God, that a creation took place, that sin exists, etc., can never be established by scientific investigation nor has this ever been attempted but some entirely apart

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