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    41. Reay Tannahill, Sex In History, pp. 239-40; Robert K. Massie, Peter The Great,

    Ballantine Books, New York, 1986, p. 553.

    42. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan,  Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial

    Evolution, pp. 179-186.

    43. For an interesting description of how the early Christians managed to turn the

    pagan gods into demons, see Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman

    Empire, Penguin edition, p. 270.  See also Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians,

    p. 137.

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