Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 194

;

170

§49.

TWO KINDS OF

[Div. II

This accounts for the varieties of

of others a necessity.

theories

SCIENCE

and schools which antagonize, and by

this antag-

onism bless, each other. This is the reason why in each age and circle certain views prevail, and strike the keynote and that all manner of personal influences are restricted This piecemeal labor by the power of public opinion. of every description would never advance science, if the object of science itself did not exist organically, and the

investigating individuals in every land and age were not involuntarily and often

unconsciously organically related.

mutually supplementary, corrective and yet To annul organically connected multiformity, would be the death of Not the military mechanism of the army, but the science. organic multiformity of social life is the type to which, in this

order to flourish, science must correspond.

Such being the case with naturalistic science, it would be which flourishes upon the root of

different with the science

palingenesis, only

if

palingenesis annulled the cause of this This, however,

subjective pluriformity.

is

not at

all

the case.

Palingenesis does not destroy the difference in degree between It does not alter the

differences of temperament, of personal disposition, of position in life, nor of concomitant circumstances which dominate the investigation.

individuals.

Neither does palingenesis take away the differences born

from the distinction of time.

of national character

may

Palingenesis

bring

it

and the process

about, that these dif-

ferences assume another character, that in some forms they

do not appear, and that they do appear in other forms outside of it but in every case with palingenesis also subjective divergence continues to exist in every way. The result indeed shows that in this domain, as well as in that of naturalistic science, different schools have formed themselves, and that even in the days of the Middle Ages there never was a question of uniformit3^ However much Rome has insisted uj^on uniformity, it has never been able to establish it, and in the end she has adopted the system of

unknown

;

giving to each expression of the multiformity a place in the organic harmony of her great hierarchy.

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