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...only is the fetus not truly human, but according to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, neither is the newborn, until molded by social and cultural influences. Presumably then we may take the life of the newborn any time before this molding is complete. After how much molding? One hour? One week? One year...
Most behavioral scientists, however, do not believe that viability marks the beginning of humanity. In their view, a fetus is not a person but a coherent system of unrealized capacities, and humanity is "an achievement, not an endowment." Anthropologist Ashley Montagu concurs, arguing that the embryo, fetus and newborn do not become truly human until molded by social and cultural influences after birth...
...there anybody out there? Probably, agreed a symposium of scientists at Boston University. But would they want to have anything to do with us? "With our magnificent record with the Indians, the Chinese, the Filipinos, you can imagine what will happen," declared Anthropologist Ashley Montagu. Added Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning biologist-professor George Wald: "However horrifying and destructive, you can't think of anything so horrible that somebody would not feel elated at carrying it out." As a matter of fact, said Cornell Astronomer Carl Sagan, other civilizations may already know about us because of our high-frequency...
...womental herstrionics, I can bear the threat of seeing womanacles on the male. In spite of your monuwomental attempts at a neoro-womantic revolution, your womanifest destiny, as sure as womenopause, is to be a revolutionary womanque, you and all your sheroes, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, old Uncle Tom Montagu, et al. But I turn purple as a girlsenberry when I see the wo-manner in which you try to womanipulate the Manglish Language for your inhu-woman purposes...
...felt for women. In Pope's case, it did not prevent him from trying to play the rake at large in London, though with scant success. Quennell notes that his sexual adventures were "of a mercenary and transient kind," and that his platonic pursuit of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the one real love of his life, ended unhappily...