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The specter of difference: what science is uncovering, we will have to come to grips with.(SCIENCE)(Column)
IT is a longstanding cliche that human knowledge of the universe advances by a series of dethronements. There was a time when men thought that the whole world was alive with spirits whose main purpose and pleasure was to watch us. Great bonfires were lit to stir the sun from his midwinter torpor; kings were ritually slain and new kings proclaimed, so that the crops thus encouraged might rise from the ground. It took several thousand years for mankind to understand that the sun is not even aware of our existence, and that crops grow well or badly according to the weather, the soil, and the farmer's skill, not in response to acts of ritual sacrifice.
Even when ...
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