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In doing so we present a doctrine which not only maintains the truth of the Ideal, and the actuality of the phenomenal, and the relative reality of both, but which proves, with all the cogency of Science, how it is that the Sensible is permeated by and made knowable only by the Ideal, by the laws of the transmutations which constitute actuality, and that, on the other hand, the Ideal only enters experience as the regulative principle of the ever-transmuting Reality.
The data of philosophy are besides an Unknowable Power the existence of knowable likenesses and differences among its manifestations, and a resulting segregation of the manifestations into those of subject and object. Beyond these analytic truths, however, philosophy demands a law of universal synthesis.
The function of science is to deal with the known and the knowable, with all that is presented in experience, with the world of phenomena exclusively. Religion having for its subject matter the unknown and unknowable, while science has for its subject matter the known and the knowable, religion and science are not antagonistic, but complementary.
Soon after, a celebrated scientist from England who had bowled over all the pins set up by his predecessors, lectured in our Bojotia; and fired with zeal for truth, I swept aside all my costly idealistic rubbish into a 'doomed pyramid of the vanities', and swore allegiance to the Positive, the 'Knowable', whose priests handled hammers, spectroscopes, electric batteries and who set up for me a whole Pantheon of science fetiches.
True SANKHYA followers, with unshakable insight born of meditation, understand that the Lord is both existent and knowable." Master expounded the Christian Bible with a beautiful clarity. "The Adam and Eve story is incomprehensible to me!" I observed with considerable heat one day in my early struggles with the allegory.
By degrees they banded themselves into a society, which, as its end was the knowledge of all things knowable, called itself a "Studium Generale;" and when it had grown into a recognised corporation, acquired the name of "Universitas Studii Generalis," which, mark you, means not a "Useful Knowledge Society," but a "Knowledge-of-things-in-general Society."
For magnitudes alone are knowable; wherever it is impossible to measure and count, to determine force mathematically, there rigorous, exact science ceases. Nature a system of regularly moved particles of mass; all that takes place mechanical movement, viz., the combination, separation, dislocation, oscillation of bodies and corpuscles; mathematics the organon of natural science!
She believed in a First Cause, only denying that it is the God of theology, which who does not deny?-denying, indeed, with Herbert Spencer, that it is knowable. But if they say that it is not knowable, how do they know but it is that which they deny?
To enable the mind to grasp it we have to invent or posit some principle, call it the vital force, as so many have done and still do, or call it molecular force, as Tyndall does, or the power of God, as our orthodox brethren do, it matters not. We are on the border-land between the knowable and the unknowable, where the mind can take no further step.
"Very well done," murmured the Doctor, "for a preacher. Stick to the knowable things, and don't stick at the unknowable; that is my law and my gospel." Dan retorted, "Now let's watch the practitioner make a cast." "Humph! Why don't you stop it, boy?" "Stop what?" Dan sat up.
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