“The world was to him a secret which he desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded, are among the earliest sensations he can remember. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that he desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied him, still his inquiries were directed to the metaphysical or in it highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.” — Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Posted on Tuesday, 22 May 2007
