"Humanities Departments" ["Philosophische Fakultät"] have once been decisively converted into that which they already are, then newspaper science and geography will become the basic sciences of those "departments," whose inner atrophy, which is clear everywhere, is merely a consequence of the waning courage to resolutely cast off this semblant philosophical character and to give the business-like character of the future "human sciences" full room to institute itself.)

Although, in relation to the "human sciences," theology is differently determined with respect to "worldview," yet purely with respect to its operation, which is in service to its determination as a science, it is much more advanced than they are. Consequently, it is quite in order if the department of theology is indeed placed after medicine and law but ahead of philosophy.

Historiology, always understood in its claim to possess the character of modern science, is a constant avoidance of history. Yet even in this avoidance, it still maintains a relation to history, and that makes historiology and the historiologist bivalent.

If history is not explained historiologically and calculated in terms of a particular image for the specific ends of supporting a position and imparting a conviction, if history is instead placed back into the uniqueness of its inexplicability, and if, through this inexplicability, all historiological bustle and all the opinions and beliefs that arise from it are placed into question and into decision with respect to themselves, then what is being carried out is what could be called historical thinking. The historical thinker is just as essentially different from the historiologist as from the philosopher, and least of all may the historical thinker be brought together with that pseudoformation we are used to calling "philosophy of history." Historical thinkers have the center of their meditation and presentation in each case in some specific domain (whether poetry, sculpture, or the founding and guiding of a state) of the creativity, decisions, and peaks and valleys within history. Insofar as the present era and the era to come unfold historically (though in very different ways: the present-modern era does so inasmuch as it historiologically thrusts history aside without being able to avoid it, whereas the era to come does so inasmuch as it must turn in the direction of the simplicity and acuity of historical being), the limits of the figures of the historiologist and the historical thinker—seen from an external perspective—are necessarily blurred today. This happens all the more because historiology—in correspondence with the increasing prominence of its character as newspaper science, a prominence