... and of philosophy. The business of the one is to form the character and to purify the heart, of the other to guide and inform the intellect. When religion undertakes to teach scientific truth the very ... no better reason than the dread of giving offence to Queen Christina.CHAPTER II. 19 History of Modern Philosophy, by Alfred The Project Gutenberg eBook, History of Modern Philosophy, by Alfred ... contributed nothing to ethics. Here he is content to reaffirm the generalconclusions of Greek philosophy, the necessary superiority of mind to matter, of the soul to the body, of spirit to sense. He...