I do not say that every science will be equally affected by the omission; pure mathematics will not suffer at all; chemistry will suffer less than politics, politics than history, ethics, or metaphys
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何光琦
HERE Newman actually emphasizes the integrality of human knowledge.If we agree to the statement that all men by nature want to know, and if we agree that the highest goal of knowledge is to reach the whole truth, any branch of knowledge ought not be divided totally with each other.As an old Chinese saying goes,"With the skin gone,to what can the hair attach itself?"