ie PGT Be. Tig Re, FROM RELIGION TO, PHILOSOPHY A STUDY IN THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN SPECULATION F. M. CORNFORD Be Ula Larter oleae LY,tee. FROM RELIGION sveWoc| Ke): b aap Ley A STUDY IN THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN SPECULATION f ny ee) 13 4008) P eae In this major work the most distinguished historian of ancient philos- ophy of his generation traces the religious roots of science and systematic speculation. Combining profound classical scholarship with striking an- thropological and sociological insight, Cornford probes the mythic ante- cedents of such persistent metaphysical concepts as Destiny, God, Soul, Substance, Nature, and Immortality. FROM RELIGION TO PHILOS- OPHY is a needed reminder to our day of the intricate connections which continue to exist between critical scientific thought and social and emo- tional experience. In Cornford’s wn words: Philosophy, when she puts aside the finished products of religion and. returns to the ‘nature of things,’ really goes back to that original representation out of which mythology itself had gathered shape. * “Cornford arrived at a picture of the origins of Greek philosophy which was historically superior to that which anyone else has so far reached.” —THE CLASSICAL REVIEW RPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK Cover design by Frank Wilimcz:FROM RELIGION TO PHILOSOPHY THE LIBRARY OF RELIGION AND CULTURE Benjamin Nelson: GENERAL EDITOR Literature and the Arts: Stanley R. Hopper, ed. sPiRITUAL PROBLEMS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE History: Adolf Harnack WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? Edwin Hatch THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK IDEAS ON CHRISTIANITY Philosophy: Nicolas Berdyaev THE BEGINNING AND THE END F. M. Cornford FROM RELIGION TO PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Feuerbach THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY Auguste Sabatier OUTLINES OF A PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION George Santayana INTERPRETATIONS OF POETRY AND RELIGION