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there might be. There have been other narratives - the utopian, science-
based society of Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis , H.G. Wells' scientific
utopias, the happy robot lands of Isaac Asimov - but they have failed to
survive catastrophes, the innate pessimism or resentment of writers, and
perhaps of our skeptical selves. We may ask whether science, and spe-
cifically chemistry, can ever align itself on the other side in the arche-
typal saga of good versus evil, for example by offering solutions to the
environmental disasters that we are only just beginning to acknowledge,
or by working to equalize the distribution of material wealth in the
world, the inequality of which is a major cause of racial, political, and
religious terrorism.
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