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Man As God: 'Frankenstein' Turns 200
In the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay Nature: "A man is a god in ruins." Ever since people contemplated the existence of a divine dimension — and this belief must go back to the very early stages of Homo Sapiens or even earlier — with Neanderthals, a split occurred between the human condition and the eternal.
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Science fiction: The science that fed Frankenstein
Richard Holmes ponders the discoveries that inspired the young Mary Shelley to write her classic, 200 years ago.