These are (1) The age of the gods, in which the gentiles believed they lived under divine governments, and everything was commanded them by auspices and oracles, which are the oldest institutions in profane history.
In harmony with these three kinds of nature and government, three kinds of language were spoken which compose the vocabulary of this Science: (1) That of the time of the families where gentile men were newly received into humanity.
Hence, among all nations, once the laws had been put into the vulgar tongue, the science of laws passed from the control of the nobles.
The origins of modern science lie in the unparalleled innovations made in the sixth to fourth centuries BCE by Greek philosophers, who were the first to ask what simple material principle underlies the variety of natural phenomena we observe.
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary [sic] faith and human interests on the other.
In some areas of science such as evolutionary biology teleological language is difficult to avoid (living things strive to maximize the survival of their genes, etc.), though biologists are quick to point out that this is just a manner of speaking and everything can be explained without using the ‘P’ word.
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