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election and the Descent of Man (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1972), p. 139. I.E.O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975). "Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976). "John Cacioppo, "Loneliness: Conceptualization," (In press),

take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and su

ress, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1959). I have in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White

f clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards's sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale Univers

4 Selection and the Descent of Man (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1972), p. 139. 'E.O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975). Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976). ‘John Cacioppo, “Loneliness: Conceptualization,” (In press), pp.

we take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and suffer

ty Press, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, 7he Fighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). 'Thave in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White, A

ts of clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards’s sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University