I have read somewhere that philosophy has always been chiefly engagedwith the inter-relations between God, Nature, and Man. The earliestphilosophers were Greeks who occupied themselves mainly with therelations between God and Nature, and dealt with Man separately. TheChristian Church was so absorbed in the relation of God to Man asentirely to neglect Nature. Finally, modern philosophers concernthemselves chiefly with the relations between Man and Nature.
Walter William Rouse Ball, British mathematician (1850-1925)
