In this major work the most distiguished historian of ancient philosophy of his generation traces the religious roots of science and systematic speculation. Combining profound clasical scholarship with striking an anthropological and sociological insight, Conford probes the mythic antecendents of such persistent metaphysical concepts as Destiny, God, Soul, Substance, Nature, and Immorality, FROM RELIGION TO PHILOSOPHY is a neede remainder to our day of the intricate connections which continue to exist between critical scientific thought and social and emotional experience. In Conford’s own words:rnPhilosophy, when she puts aside the finished products of religion and returns to be ‘nature of things’, really goes back to that original representations out of which mythology itself bad gatbered shape.