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but they admit an extreme degree of relaxation (sc. of their standards of proof). Frequently, too,
the student
who admires logic and sees its clarity, imagines that the infidel doctrines attributed to the
philosophers are
supported by similar demonstrations, and hastens into unbelief before reaching the
theological (or
metaphysical) sciences. Thus this drawback too leads to unbelief.
3. NATURAL SCIENCE OR PHYSICS. This is the investigation of the sphere of the heavens together with
the heavenly bodies, and of what is beneath the heavens, both simple bodies like water, air, earth,
fire, and
composite bodies like animals, plants and minerals, and also of the causes of their changes,
transformations
and combinations. This is similar to the investigation by medicine of the human body with its
principal and
subordinate organs, and of the causes of the changes of temperament. Just as it is
not a condition of
the student
who admires logic and sees its clarity, imagines that the infidel doctrines attributed to the
philosophers are
supported by similar demonstrations, and hastens into unbelief before reaching the
theological (or
metaphysical) sciences. Thus this drawback too leads to unbelief.
3. NATURAL SCIENCE OR PHYSICS. This is the investigation of the sphere of the heavens together with
the heavenly bodies, and of what is beneath the heavens, both simple bodies like water, air, earth,
fire, and
composite bodies like animals, plants and minerals, and also of the causes of their changes,
transformations
and combinations. This is similar to the investigation by medicine of the human body with its
principal and
subordinate organs, and of the causes of the changes of temperament. Just as it is
not a condition of