The Unification of Knowledge Impossible. 1 7 



the transforming influence of that most notable of all 

 phenomena the Christian Faith. 



And this gigantic task is to be accomplished, not in 

 the region of ideas, but in the realm of fact. The 

 principle that unifies is to be known as a principle 

 operative throughout the entire range of knowable 

 existence, as the bond which unites in one organic 

 and indivisible whole all objects, from the molecule 

 that vibrates at the centre of the universe to the 

 Almighty Source of all things, as the law that 

 regulates all events throughout the entire succession 

 of change from everlasting to everlasting. 



The facts, which are to be brought together in one, 

 lie in clearly marked departments or kingdoms, each 

 distinguished from the others by a well-defined line 

 of discrimination, which science, as it advances, does 

 nothing to obliterate ; on the contrary, the clearer the 

 light of science, the deeper and the more marked the 

 distinction is seen to be. These objects of knowledge 

 are: 



(1.) Supreme over all GOD. 



(2.) The self-conscious intelligence of man. 



(3.) Objects endowed with life and sensibility. 



(4.) Objects endowed with vegetal life. 



(5.) Inorganic matter. 



Throughout the entire series of created existence, 

 there are common characteristics that reveal a certain 

 sort of oneness. But that unity is far different from 

 the oneness of an organic whole, the same in substance 



