GENETICS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN — GLASS 315 



and minimal intelligence to the performance of simple, mechanical 

 tasks." But can the geneticist breed wisdom, or integrity, or even 

 simple humanity? As a former instructor in this university once 

 wrote, in an inimitable essay on the same subject, "If we are to make 

 a better world, we must breed people like Palamedes ; the danger is that 

 we shall breed people like Odysseus instead." 



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