The Wisdom of Repugnance
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O ur habii of dt-lighting in news of scientific and lethnological breaklhioiighs lias bf f n sorely challf nged by the birib ainiotinceinem of a sheep named Dolly. Though Dolly shares with previous sheep the "softest clothing, woolly, briglu." William Blake's question, "Little Lamb, who made thee?" has tor her a radically different answer: Dolly was, quite literally, made. She is the work not of nature or nature's God but of man, au Knglishnian, Ian Wilmiit, and liis fellow scieniisis. What's more, Dolly came into being not only asexually— ironically, jtist like "He [who] calls Himsell a Lamb"—but also as the genetically identical copy (and the perfect incarnation of the form or blueprint) of a mature ewe, of whom she is a clone. This long-awaited yet not quite expected success in cloning a mammal raised immediately the prospect—and the specter— of cloning human beings: "I a child and Thou a lamb," despite our dilferences, have always been equal candidates for creative making, only now, by means of cloning, we may both spring from the hand of man playing at being God.
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