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You boast of consciousness, but you are not sure of your ground, for though your mind works, yet your heart is darkened and corrupt, and you cannot have a full, genuine consciousness without a pure heart.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

There in its nasty stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse becomes promptly absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.

I’m a few pages in and I see some parallels between Jeckyll and Hyde. Struggling against depravity, what is a conscience?