The King James version of the Holy Bible reminds usearly in Chapter 1 that God created a male and a female, blessed them, commanded them to be fruitful, replenish the earth, and subdueand have dominion over it.

Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian who lived from 484 to 425 B.C., reportedlystated that “of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.”