Sublime

the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.1 Growth

it may be better to call the last 70,000 years the Anthropocene epoch: the epoch of humanity. For during these millennia Homo sapiens became the single most important agent of change in the global ecology.5

To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms. It is necessary to take into account the

modern history as the process of formulating a deal between science and one particular religion – namely, humanism.