Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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