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Is it strange that even now the brilliance of the gospel shines so brightly through this story through the mischief of the fiend and the despondency that accompanies evil?

The necessity of the gospel is so clear!

He’s not very bright for such a brilliant scientist!

I saw this tragedy coming a mile away 😭

Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.

I’m surprised he thought of this only presently. It was one of my first thoughts

“During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings. But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands.”

Makes me think of the power of deep work