The Christian emphasis on the authentic truth of the Genesis story left the fantasy helpless against new disclosures. The extended vision of the globe and of the assortment of its human occupants that accompanied the revelation of the New World debilitated the conviction that all of mankind started in only two guardians. In the meantime, the Genesis story was undermined by the recuperation of lost messages, for example, the Roman artist Lucretius' On the Nature of Things – whose re-disclosure was the subject of Greenblatt's book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) – in which the universe is envisioned as everlasting and species develop because of arbitrary moves in issue. As Greenblatt appears, one of the boldest reactions to these new difficulties originated from Isaac La Peyrère, a scholar conceived in Bordeaux in 1596 and raised in a Calvinist family.