3 ) There should be complete public information about 
the use of recombinant DNA in industry and government such 
a , s the military. This must be legislated and enforced. 
4) There must be a permanent body made up of scientists, 
lay people, politicians, and other groups who will study 
trends in science and organize symposia and papers on the 
social implications. 
To conclude, we ought to consider Theodore Roszak’s 
description of Mary Shelley’s " Frank enstein" as an allegory 
for modern genetics: 
"Where did the doctor's great project go wrong? Not 
in his intentions which were beneficent, but in the 
dangerous haste and egotistic myopia with which he 
pursued his goal. It is both a beautiful and a 
terrible aspect of our humanity, this capacity to 
be carried away by an idea. For all the best reasons, 
Victor Frankenstein wished to create a new and better 
human type. What he knew was the secret of the 
creature’s physical assemblage; he knew how to 
manipulate the material parts of nature to achieve 
an astonishing result. What he did not know was the 
secret of personality in nature. Yet he raced ahead, 
eager tc play God, without knowing God’s most divine 
mystery. So he created something that was soulless. 
And when that montrous thing appealed to him for the 
one gift that might redeem it from monstrosity, 
Frankenstein discovered to his horror that, for all 
his genius, it was not within him to provide that 
gift. Nothing in his science comprehended it. The 
gift was love. The doctor knew everything there was 
to know about his creature — except how to love it 
as a person." 
[Appendix A — 201] 
