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odyssey bewilder the foundations of optimism, punching holes entire within any
argument that tries sociobiologically to reassure or counter doom. The species with
the shortest of all epitaphs. Our species, however statistically differentiated at the
individual levels, owns the Holocaust (Fig. 66.3).
Yet, we are different. We carry from generation to generation a phylogeny of
“Ecclesiastes,” the “Peaceable Kingdom,” those critical years between 1606 and
1612 when Jan Brueghel the Elder was focused upon his commissions by
Milan’s Cardinal Borromeo to illustrate every detail of Paradise, about which in
depth treatises were composed by John Salkeld in 1617,
11
Marmaduke Carver in
11 A Treatise of Paradise and the Principall contents thereof, Printed by Edward Friffin for
Nathaniel Butter, London 1617.
Fig. 66.2 St. Francis with the Animals, From Vita Del Serafico S.  Franceso, Scritta Da
S. Bonaventura, 1593, p. 96. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
66.3 Both
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