✓ Correct answer: E. the entire outer, human and nonhuman world.Because the passage makes it clear that science describes phenomena that can be publicly experienced and shared, or the outer world, while literature looks into the inner "reactive" human world. Therefore, the workings of nature that science sheds light on most clearly relate to the entire world beyond the inner "reactive" human world.<br/><br/>Choice A should be eliminated because, according to the passage, this is the meaning of nature with which literature would be concerned.<br/><br/>Choice B is incorrect because it does not fit the context of what science "sheds light on," including the more public aspects of human experience.<br/><br/>Choice C, although close to the correct answer, should be eliminated. While science may well shed light on the universe's causal agent, according to the passage, science is concerned with far more than that.<br/><br/>Choice D is incorrect because it doesn't fit the context of what science "sheds light on," including the more public aspects of human experience.
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