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the problem of integrating faith, art, and science. Religion and
art are automatically excluded from a quantified, uniform, and
homogenous system of thought:
“One of the major distinctions that has to be made
between the work of the two periods relates to the place
occupied by faith and art in scientific inquiry. It was
hardly until the later period that they began to lose their
importance as the basis for scientific reasoning.”
Today when science also has turned from the segmental
to the configurational, or structural mode of observation, it is
hard to discover the grounds of difficulty and confusion that
invested these matters from the sixteenth to the nineteenth
centuries. It was notably Claude Bernard’s approach to
experimental medicine in the later nineteenth century that