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the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108, 1470–1474.
46. Keeley, L. H. (1996). War before civilization: The myth of the peaceful
savage. New York: Oxford University Press.
47. “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil
passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political
parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all
human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And
even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good
is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an
unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand
the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil
inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to
expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it
within each person.” Solzhenitsyn, A.I. (1975). The Gulag Archipelago
1918-1956: An experiment in literary investigation (Vol. 2). (T.P.
Whitney, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row, p. 615.
48. The best exploration of this I have ever encountered is to be found in the
brilliant documentary about the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb,
entitled Crumb, directed by Terry Zwigoff (1995), released by Sony
Pictures Classic. This documentary will tell you more than you want to
know about resentment, deceit, arrogance, hatred for mankind, sexual
shame, the devouring mother and the tyrannical father.
49. Bill, V.T. (1986). Chekhov: The silent voice of freedom. Allied Books,
Ltd.
50. Costa, P.T., Teracciano, A. & McCrae, R.R. (2001). “Gender differences
in personality traits across cultures: robust and surprising
findings.”Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 322-331.
51. Isbell, L. (2011). The fruit, the tree and the serpent: Why we see so well.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; see also Hayakawa, S.,
Kawai, N., Masataka, N., Luebker, A., Tomaiuolo, F., & Caramazza, A.
(2011). “The influence of color on snake detection in visual search in
human children.” Scientific Reports, 1, 1-4.
52. Virgin and Child (c. 1480) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c. 1465- c. 1495)
provides an outstanding example of this, with Mary, the Christ Child
and the serpent additionally superimposed on a background of medieval