The Unification of Knowledge Impossible. 13. 



(1.) The Calvinist finds that unity in God. All 

 things have been ordered according to His will ; they 

 are the manifestation o His power, and have their 

 harmony in His decree. This is unification ; but it is 

 the attainment of that aim through faith, not through 

 knowledge. The co-ordination of all departments of 

 knowledge in one organic and comprehensible whole 

 is not reached by this method. 



(2.) The unification of knowledge may be approached 

 by positing the unity of the object of knowledge. 

 But our knowledge is not of One Thing; it is of many 

 things. To know individual things as individual 

 things, is to difference them ; and the knowledge is 

 diverse as the objects. Knowledge is at first of indi- 

 vidual things ; to reach unity of knowledge through 

 the unity of the thing known, the Eleatic removed 

 the many, affirming reality only of the One. We need 

 hardly pause to show that the knowledge of the One 

 as thus attained is not real knowledge. There is no- 

 knowledge without judgment, and no judgment 

 without comparison, and no comparison without like- 

 ness or difference; nor these without plurality. Sa 

 that in the removal of the multiple and the positing 

 of the One the conditions of knowledge have vanished. 

 Like Samson, who at one stroke overthrew his enemies 

 and sacrificed himself, knowledge, in sweeping away 

 plurality, is self-destroyed. So soon as the unifica- 

 tion is complete, thought is extinguished. If, then,. 



