Included is a historical development of sexual attitudes, a look at Darwin and evolution by natural selection, a brief history of reproduction, and an explanation of cosmogonies, women, anatomy and physiology, sexual relationships of the Gods, animal worship, phallic festivals, prostitution, and a large variety of other topics.

[82] The traditional struggle between Platonistic and Aristotelian modes of musical structuralization and conceptualization continued apace, but was intensified by new conflicts brought on by developments in the natural sciences: ideas versus numbers, metaphors versus representations, the cosmologies and cosmogonies of met aphysics versus the exact figures and measurements of modern astronomy and physics.

It is here that we find the most provocative difference between the mythic cosmogonies of the past and Turner's vision.