VII. The Organization of the Human Being

Gentlemen! Science only wants to accept what can be seen with the eyes and grasped with the hands. It takes a special ability to also research that which cannot be seen with the eyes and grasped with the hands, and one does not want to acquire this ability. Medieval religious science said that there was a science for everything earthly and a doctrine of faith, and that is what is written in the scriptures. And even today people still hold this point of view. People no longer dare to have a science that cannot be grasped with hands, because they have not yet progressed beyond a science that can be grasped with hands. I would like to explain to you a little what I have told you, by means of something that is admittedly old for today's time; but with regard to these things, the decisive event occurred precisely in the last third of the 19th century. I need only read you the last sentences of a book, and you will immediately see how today's science is oriented in this regard. It says: Beyond the limits of our knowledge, there is no path. In the pathless... (space in the transcript) we can only let ourselves be carried by the inexhaustible hope in a mystically sweet half-slumber, on the wings of fantasy - and so on.