Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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THE PHOENIX NEST the living animal. Then the chemical sculptor of life, or the nearest approach to it which laboratory skill could isolate, was applied to the still-living cells, in a warm nutrient bath. From this bath, called the phoenix nest, a new organism grew which was the exact duplicate of the old organism. At first, of course, the ex- periments had failed. Can- cerous and malignant mon- strosities had grown within the nutrient baths instead of the graceful salamanders or dikeable guinea pigs that were expected. Eventually, how- ever, success began to reward the tireless efforts of the scientists. Guinea pigs began to grow in the tubes which re- sembled hair for hair and wart for wart the living animals from which the “parent’” cells had been excised. Regeneration of bodies from non-genetic cells was a proven fact. There remained only to be accomplished the extension of this process to the human organism and the demonstra- tion that the personality was re- generated along with the body. 7 In the refrigerators of the University were cells from countless men and women who had been of outstanding service to their fellow men— and countless who had not. Among the first group were cells from the great of America, England, France, Italy, Ger- many, Japan, China, New Russia, India, the Scandina- vian countries, the South American countries, Africa, Australia, and everywhere where a great reputation had flourished. Among the sec- ond group were millions upon millions of little tubes from millions upon millions of little people, who had put in their bid for immortality by donating a few cells of their bodies, marked with name, date, occupation, nationality and serial number. Serial Number One had gone to Sir Winston Churchill, and it was he who was destined first to be regenerated—and not merely singly, but as twins. There are those who say that guinea pigs have person- ality, but even if this be true, it was not true enough to show duplication of personality out comiclbooks.cohm