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The ultimate purpose for my existence is the exhaust my individual potentiality.

In 100 pages, I've read about the first 13 Laws, which are:

1. Never outshine the master
2. Never put too much trust in friends
3. Conceal intentions
4. Say less than necessary
5. Guard your reputation
6. Court attention
7. Take credit for work done for you
8. Make people come to you
9. Win through actions
10. Avoid the unlucky
11. Keep people dependent
12. Selective honesty
13. Appeal toother's self interest

Though the Germans were passionate about the idea and theory of eugenics in the early 1910's, it would be the Americans that initially made eugenics, selective sterilization, and racial hygiene a full-fledged national operation. Part One ends with a brief overview of the Better Babies Contests, Beck vs. Bell, and the various propaganda films made in American in the late 1920's to spread the need for 'better' genes.

"We begin in Mendez's pea-flower garden, in an obscure Moravian monastery in 1864, where the 'gene' is discovered and then quickly forgotten."

Dolly the Sheep was the world's first cloned animal in 1997. The process is called 'nuclear transfer' which revealed that stem cells are full of potential but can shorten the life of the clone.

The Lascaux Cave Paintings are the earliest known works of art discovered in 1940 in central France. It's thought to have magical properties.

Today's entry is about James Joyce's 'Ulysses' written in 1922.