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Two recommended literary categories will combine to focus an allegorical interpretation of contemporary human social relations and how such relations can propel forward the evolution of the human race. Paring together Romance in Literature with Diversity in Literature illuminates that love in its many forms can be a powerful driver for understanding, acceptance, even appreciation of "the other." The All-Souls Trilogy written by historian, scholar Deborah Harkness, initially set at Oxford, explores how forbidden romantic love between two people from vastly diverse backgrounds challenges a thousand year old law and threatens the political power, privilege, and social order of their worlds, and even threatens their lives. We will discuss how these allegorical concepts reside in humanity today all over the world and roadblocks they pose for peaceful coexistence among people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. We will also discuss the hopefulness of how humanity has evolved dramatically, though we have a long way to go. Dr. Martin Luther King postulated that the arc of the universe bends toward justice. We submit there is evidence to support that postulation though change does not occur in a straight vector, rather is discontinuous. For that reason, we will explore the future.