Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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techniques and, therefore, to utilize several
sciences. Naturally, all these sciences arrive at
a different conception of their common object.
They abstract only from man what is
attainable by their special methods. And those
abstractions, after they have been added
together, are still less rich than the concrete
fact. They leave behind them a residue too
important to be neglected. Anatomy,
chemistry,
physiology,
psychology,
pedagogy,
history,
sociology,
political
economy do not exhaust their subject. Man, as
known to the specialists, is far from being the
concrete man, the real man. He is nothing but
a schema, consisting of other schemata built
up by the techniques of each science.
He is, at the same time, the corpse dissected
by the anatomists, the consciousness observed
by the psychologists and the great teachers of
the spiritual life, and the personality which
introspection shows to everyone as lying in
the depth of himself. He is the chemical
substances constituting the tissues and
humours of the body. He is the amazing
