136. Second section. Close to the first section of the third category there is a group of human beings who are also researchers, but who are different because their intelligence dominates an even larger area in relation to feeling. Here the disharmony between intelligence and feeling is greater. The second section's faculty of feeling is still relatively primitive because it does not reach very far into psychic and mental areas but has only the purely material and physical experiences, and therefore the field of research can be merely of a correspondingly physical nature and belonging to the physical areas. This means that the consciousness of all those people is built up from that knowledge which is obtainable only through pure material perception and technical aids. But in this way they also represent a considerable and indispensable knowledge for the benefit of mankind's daily life and activities. In Livets Bog this material knowledge is shown to mean true "science" as different from "wisdom" which includes not just material knowledge but, as we have indicated before, also knowledge of feeling and spirit. So people in the third category's second section can be called the real "scientists". We will come back later on in this Introduction to demonstrate how wonderful and indispensable it is that science appears in the furthering of terrestrial mankind's move towards a state of cosmic consciousness, and therefore we will not dwell on it any further here, but just emphasize that this group contains many fine and high-minded people who work only for the interest of mankind, making science an idealism, a bulwark which can stem the flood of dark, abysmal experiences and hopelessness caused by illness and adversity. But of course there are also people found here who manifest as obedient slaves of egoism and ambition, thereby making science a stimulus for darkness, wars and mutilation. Among the agents of science, therefore, one can find many different kinds of characters - extending all the way from the idealistic to the criminal.
      As science can only constitute a knowledge achieved by material experiences and calculations, it lacks the knowledge which is met through spiritual senses and experiences. Therefore its attitude becomes one-sided, and those of its devotees who are still able to sense only materialistically will be more or less forced to consider the analyses connected with the new world impulse (arrived at by spiritual sensing) as "unscientific" or unrealistic and they will therefore be opponents to it to the same degree as they lack the corresponding spiritual experience and basis for confirming the analyses. The attitude of science as a whole to the analyses coming from the new world impulse will therefore represent many greatly differing viewpoints, extending from resistance and intolerance to a more sympathetic interest and acceptance, all according to the individual's qualifications outside materialistic knowledge.