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Essay on Limits of Human Advancement
We know that, if in the approved manner engaged, science can guide to the betterment of the human race, to the progress of the qualities of human race, and to an accepting of the mysteries of the cosmos. We identify that it has the prospective to eliminate poverty, enrich humanity, and free it from the struggle for existence. If the material exists, for the benefit of human beings, it is through science that we can understand the potential of existing resources and learn to develop this natural heritage for future generations and ourselves. Science should, therefore, be pursued to improve human life, and have as its conscious and ultimate goal the establishment of world peace and the unification of the human race. Unfortunately, science can similarly perfect instruments of war, support the concentration and abuse of power, undermine social and cultural values, and endanger the existence of mankind. It is not adequate, for that reason, by itself, to guarantee progress. It must be directed by the civilizing aims and values of the society it is intended to hand out.
The novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley starts with a sequence of letters from Robert Walton to his sister. Walton is an English Arctic explorer who spots a bizarre creature on a dog sled. The worn out Victor Frankenstein arrives, in detection of the creature, and at the same time as improving tells his story. He has been born into a well-off Geneva family.
After his mother dies of scarlet fever and becomes a student of natural philosophy and medicine. Enthused by occult philosophy and the teaching of his mentor, Waldman, he builds a creature in the appearance of a man and gives it life. It body is assembled from parts which Frankenstein has stolen from butcher shops, dissecting rooms, and charnel houses.......
