In the words of medical historian W. F. Bynum, “The Renaissance allowed the right brain to flourish, whereas the Reformation turned out to be a leftbrain disaster. For the most part, so was the Enlightenment. . . . Worst of all, though, was the Industrial Revolution, the ultimate triumph of materiality, exploitation, and greed.”10 We are now coming out of, in McGilchrist’s graphic words, “the left-hemisphere’s most daring assault on mankind.”11
