难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语、省略、抽象词
解释：本句再一次出现两个and连接三个不属于同一层面的成分的情况：第一个and 连接两个并列的不定式，第二个and的级别较高，连接前后两个并列的句子，and之后相当于省略了主语they.第二个插入语起到的干扰作用比较大，把the growth of分割成了the growth, not of philosophy, but of…
意群训练：They were fighting, albeit discreetly, to open the intellectual world to the new science and to liberate intellectual life from ecclesiastical philosophy and envisioned their work as contributing to the growth, not of philosophy, but of research in mathematics and physics