It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being. - P49
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. - P49
Pursuing these reflections, I thought, that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. - P49
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. - P50
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