Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human law has historically been based on philosophy, on theology, or on the imperatives of community life. French Biologist Jean Rostand founds his concept of the law on the biology of the human being. He argues* that modern science is rapidly changing human biology and that the laws affecting it must change...
Whither Maternity? Biological science has changed this traditional concept of the human species, says Rostand. Artificial insemination raises the possibility that husbands separated from their wives for long periods may arrange to have them inseminated during their absence. This requires a change in laws that now permit a husband to disown a child that he could not have begotten in the usual manner...
Another possibility is "chemical adultery." Bacteria can already be subjected to "directed mutation" by means of a chemical, DNA (desoxyribosenucleic acid), extracted from the chromosomes. When this practice is extended to humans, certain hereditary characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
...this is far indeed from the spirit of wholesome controversy which informed the old debate. The essence of an old-fashioned debate was its recognition that profound, even violent, disagreement was a natural part of the human and social process. It was habitual to speak of a debate as a fierce debate or a hot debate, and these adjectives were used, not disparagingly, but in admiration. Adversaries are no more, except-if you will-on programs like those of Mike Wallace or John Wingate, where there is but a shallow pretense of intellectual substance. The panel has moderated them...
...There was a mean trick played on us somewhere," sighs Ty Ty Walden (Robert Ryan), the back-country bumpkin who is the picture's hero. "God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people." Ty Ty himself is all too human. For 15 years, instead of plowing his fields, he has spent his working hours digging them full of enormous holes in a sleeveless search for legendary treasure. And every time he digs in "God's Little Acre," the plot whose yield he has allotted to his church, Ty Ty reluctantly...