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Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension. Awareness of the natural continuum, currently gauged at some 13.8 billion years overall, disarms sectarian zealotry and, in retrospect, explains some of the difficulties the literary and philosophical traditions have had in accommodating their beliefs to what undeniably exists. To this day, beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements. As a work mainly in natural philosophy, this book uses the consensus natural continuum to critique the more prominent and durable misconceptions.

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As a professor of English and comparative literature, Harold Toliver has, until recently, published mainly literary criticism and history. His more recent publications have explored natural history's revolutionizing of the history of ideas, beginning in the Renaissance with Copernicus and Galileo and in England with Francis Bacon, and climaxing in the 1920s with the combined product of physics, astrophysics, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology. As such, through such work, Toliver evaluates traditional assumptions made in literature, philosophy, and common beliefs about the place of the planet and its inhabitants in the scheme of things.

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