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Jaynes finds supporting evidence in the surviving remnants of almost every major world religion and civilization. Direct interaction between gods and men appears in the artwork, literature and religious traditions of most ancient cultures. "Early civilizations were all theocracies with God at the top," Jaynes says, adding that "when they talk about the 'word of god,' they actually heard him in their hallucinations." Jaynes points out that the statuary of many pagan religions depicts idols with mouths agape, as if the gods were speaking to the people...
Clearly Jaynes has bought, or sold himself, on the whole package. He believes that some parts of his theory--the idea of bicameralism, his view of consciousness--could stand alone even if the notion that ancient civilizations heard inner voices were refuted. But Jaynes still thinks many of the differences between ancient and modern man are convincingly explained by his entire theory of the brain's evolution and the breakdown of bicameralism...
...overwhelming black presence in major sports, simply to remark on the fact makes some people uncomfortable. Racial differences -whether physical or cultural-have been employed in the past as excuses for discrimination. Throughout history, scientific findings have been twisted to serve the social theories of supremacists from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany to separate and unequal America. Racist arguments falsely claiming the intellectual superiority of one race over another can distort any discussion of racial differences...
They have been sought in the showers of particles from space, in the depths of the sea and even in the stained glass windows of ancient cathedrals. Yet in more than a decade of searching, physicists have been unable to find quarks, the elusive particles that many believe to be the basic building blocks of matter (TIME, May 19, 1967). Indeed, even Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, of Caltech, who hypothesized quarks in 1962, had doubts that their existence could ever really be confirmed...
Over the years, says Martz, the library has acquired first editions of works by virtually every major 18th century author. Many of the collection's trophies are currently on display in honor of the new Yale Center. The exhibit begins with Dryden's Fables, Ancient and Modern, which was published in London in 1700, and ends with Wordsworth's manuscript for the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, which appeared in 1800. Also on display are The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard, and James Boswell's manuscript...