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What is Doc Savage?
In answer to this question, consider the case of Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley who, based on the influence of her parents and
associates developed the novel, \u201cFrankenstein or the Modern Prometheus\u201d about the
age of eighteen years. Here, the medical student, Victor Frankenstein assembles
a \u201cman\u201d from salvaged systems from dead bodies. Here, the enterprise is not
successful since the resulting biological preparation lacks certain essential
features including a fully developed sense of identity and integration into society
derived from familial relationships. The animosities developed between the \u201ccreator\u201d
and the \u201cmonster\u201d yielded tragic results. Following, what parallels might come
to light in a comparison of the historical/philosophical/scientific/religious
origins of Clarke Savage, Jr. and Frankenstein\u2019s creation?
Now a conjecture to answer the question, \u201cWhat was Doc
Savage?\u201d As has already been pointed out, Mary Shelley was largely ignorant of
the science of human nature based on cell physiology. However, \u201cThe Man of
Bronze\u201d published 115 years later was based on much more knowledge of the same
topics. Therefore, Clarke Savage, Sr. with his wealth, facilities and
inspiration could have fleshed out the process of reaching his goals of
physical and mental perfection working in his (presumed) laboratories referred
to rather obliquely as \u201cThe Fortress of Solitude\u201d filled with all manner of
equipment and genius colleagues purchased and invented for the intense
investigations whose results he needed. Particularly, in the early 20th
Century investigations developed hints of the nature of the mechanisms of
inheritance. Could he have developed the skills of genetic manipulation
including such matters as restriction enzymes, gene transfer, orphan gene
manipulation, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,
embryonic manipulation and cloning, memory storage, and many others not even
hinted at as yet to produce his superb creation \u2013 his son, Clarke Savage, Jr.?
His wife would have provided a most ideal incubator if a mechanical variety was
deemed unnecessary.
The discussion above reveals two antithetical philosophies
regarding humans existing in the world and the consequences they produce on
adoption:
1.Doc Savage - Philosophic/Scientific Materialism: The world
is incomplete. The role of humans is to change the world into a more hospitable
place of existence. Education can extend human capacities, and science can
reveal procedures beyond superstition and other forms of ignorance for human
benefits.
2. Mary Shelley - Romantic Necessitarianism and
Associativism: Science and technology obscure associations with nature \u2013 the
surest and most effective means for the development of a healthy mentality.
Schooling and other formatted procedures cannot replace the effects of
associated chance occurrences in nature and the innate antecedent elements of
the mind producing personal reaction to these occurrences expressed almost
exclusively in artistic creations. Lacking these encounters produces an empty
identity.
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