“ With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. ”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). copy citation
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Source | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| Topic | intellect splitting dichotomy |
| Date | 1886 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43/43-h/43-h.htm |
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“And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.”
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