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Page 272
... further development in his satiric novel , " The Child Buyer , ' a work that deserved more serious discussion than it received . But already a step well beyond this is in view : nothing less than the selection of the elite from a bank ...
... further development in his satiric novel , " The Child Buyer , ' a work that deserved more serious discussion than it received . But already a step well beyond this is in view : nothing less than the selection of the elite from a bank ...
Page 289
... further , and advocated freedom for experimentally altering the human genes , even though by bad luck he might , on his own admission , produce monsters . One thing was notably absent among some of the participants in this discussion ...
... further , and advocated freedom for experimentally altering the human genes , even though by bad luck he might , on his own admission , produce monsters . One thing was notably absent among some of the participants in this discussion ...
Page 291
... further hereditary improvement , which in turn would extend science , and so on in a self - enforcing spiral without limit . " He concludes that " when man has conquered his own biological evolution , he will have laid the basis for ...
... further hereditary improvement , which in turn would extend science , and so on in a self - enforcing spiral without limit . " He concludes that " when man has conquered his own biological evolution , he will have laid the basis for ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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