Bernstein, Aaron, Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbücher, Bd. 12-16, 1897

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8469" xml:space="preserve">
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            gemacht werde. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8470" xml:space="preserve">Der Leſer wird auch wohl erkannt haben,
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            daß andre Gründe die Urſache dafür waren: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8471" xml:space="preserve">der waſchechte
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            Spiritismus ſtrotzt eben derartig von naiver und abſolut
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            kritikloſer Wundergläubigkeit, von kindlichen Widerſprüchen,
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            daß der Naturwiſſenſchaftler, wenn er ein bißchen Sinn
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            für Humor hat, unmöglich dabei ernſt bleiben kann, mag er
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            auch ſonſt jeder gegneriſchen Anſicht mit noch ſo viel Achtung
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            begegnen.</s>
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          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8473" xml:space="preserve">Wir wollen gern zugeben, daß im Seelenleben des
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            Menſchen noch außerordentlich viele Rätſel zu finden ſind, daß
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            es — um das beliebteſte Schlagwort der Spiritiſten zu ge-
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            brauchen — noch viele Dinge zwiſchen Himmel und Erde
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            giebt, welche die Schulweisheit ſich nicht träumen läßt, aber
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            wir meinen, daß man dieſe mannigfachen Rätſel
              <emph style="sp">nur</emph>
            ver-
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            mittelſt der ſchrittweiſen Forſchungsmethode der exakten Natur-
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            wiſſenſchaft wird nach und nach löſen können, nicht aber da-
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            durch, daß man ohne weiteres für alles, worauf man ſich
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            “keinen Vers machen” kann, eine übernatürliche Erklärung
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            ſucht und ſich dann damit zufrieden giebt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8474" xml:space="preserve">Der gewiſſenhafte
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            und gründliche Forſcher wird einſehen, daß eine derartige be-
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            queme Methode ein Rätſel nur dadurch erklärt und beſeitigt,
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            daß ſie mindeſtens zwei neue an deſſen Stelle ſetzt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8475" xml:space="preserve">und wer nicht
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            gar zu oberflächlich denkt, erkennt bald, daß er damit der
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            Forſchung nicht, wie er hofft, den Weg ebnet, ſondern dieſen
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            mit den Trümmern eines glücklich hinweggeräumten Hinder-
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            niſſes nur noch mehr verrammelt.</s>
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          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8477" xml:space="preserve">Selbſtverſtändlich wird die Naturwiſſenſchaft, wenn ſie
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            dem Spiritismus entgegentritt, nun nicht übereilt behaupten
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            wollen: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8478" xml:space="preserve">die Exiſtenz von Geiſtern (im Sinne des Spiritismus)
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            iſt
              <emph style="sp">unmöglich</emph>
            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8479" xml:space="preserve">Zu einer derartig kategoriſchen Behauptung
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            reichen unſre immerhin mangelhaften Kenntniſſe bei weitem
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            noch nicht aus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8480" xml:space="preserve">Aber das eine kann ſie mit vollſter Zuverſicht
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            und beſtem Gewiſſen ausſprechen: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8481" xml:space="preserve">unſere bisherigen, </s>
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