4th April 1906
If Science Could Create Beasts: Suggestions for labour-saving animals.
Professor Ostwald of Leipzig University,
is of the opinion that before very many years have passed science will
be in a position to create a form of life as advanced as that of our
domestic animals. "Why not then," he asks, "create forms of
animal life capable of doing many of the things which only human beings
can do to-day? By specialising, it may be possible, for instance,
to create a type of animal capable of doing the heavy work of the world
- creatures of vast physical strength coupled with a higher form of
intelligence than has been ivolved as yet in any animal excepting man."