“ The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. ”
H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896). copy citation
| Author | H. G. Wells |
|---|---|
| Source | The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| Topic | study |
| Date | 1896 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159-h/159-h.htm |
Context
“I wanted—it was the one thing I wanted—to find out the extreme limit of plasticity in a living shape.”
“But,” said I, “the thing is an abomination—”
“To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter,” he continued. “The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. I have gone on, not heeding anything but the question I was pursuing; and the material has—dripped into the huts yonder. It is nearly eleven years since we came here, I and Montgomery and six Kanakas.”
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