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Such coexistence wouldn't be problematic were it not for the evangelical desire, so common to the human heart, to universalize one's beliefs--what we might call the totalitarian temptation. True, not all farmers have this conscious reverence for the apricots that have been growing in their orchards for hundreds of years; some may even be succumbing to the same greed as that of the corporation which now holds patents to the genetically-modified plants--but does this universalize the reign of modern science? Readers might be helped by a brief discussion of the advantages and limitations of applying concepts and terms from psychology that tend to universalize rather than historicize emotions. |
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