Word: homunculusâ
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...OTHER ADVANCES may only increase man's moral agony. By growing life in artificial wombs, for instance, or even rearranging enough molecules to create life itself, man will invoke comparison to the legendary Faust. He attained the power to create life?the tiny test-tube man, or homunculus???but only after he had bartered away his soul to the devil. If the new knowledge is used recklessly, Faustian man of the future may wonder if he, too, has not made a pact with dark forces...
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