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I
doubted
at
first
whether
I
should
attempt
the
creation
of
a
being
like
myself
,
or
one
of
simpler
organization
;
but
my
imagination
was
too
much
exalted
by
my
first
success
to
permit
me
to
doubt
of
my
ability
to
give
life
to
an
animal
as
complete
and
wonderful
as
man
.
The
materials
at
present
within
my
command
hardly
appeared
adequate
to
so
arduous
an
undertaking
,
but
I
doubted
not
that
I
should
ultimately
succeed
.
I
prepared
myself
for
a
multitude
of
reverses
;
my
operations
might
be
incessantly
baffled
,
and
at
last
my
work
be
imperfect
,
yet
when
I
considered
the
improvement
which
every
day
takes
place
in
science
and
mechanics
,
I
was
encouraged
to
hope
my
present
attempts
would
at
least
lay
the
foundations
of
future
success
.
Nor
could
I
consider
the
magnitude
and
complexity
of
my
plan
as
any
argument
of
its
impracticability
.
It
was
with
these
feelings
that
I
began
the
creation
of
a
human
being
.
As
the
minuteness
of
the
parts
formed
a
great
hindrance
to
my
speed
,
I
resolved
,
contrary
to
my
first
intention
,
to
make
the
being
of
a
gigantic
stature
,
that
is
to
say
,
about
eight
feet
in
height
,
and
proportionably
large
.
After
having
formed
this
determination
and
having
spent
some
months
in
successfully
collecting
and
arranging
my
materials
,
I
began
.
No
one
can
conceive
the
variety
of
feelings
which
bore
me
onwards
,
like
a
hurricane
,
in
the
first
enthusiasm
of
success
.
Life
and
death
appeared
to
me
ideal
bounds
,
which
I
should
first
break
through
,
and
pour
a
torrent
of
light
into
our
dark
world
.
A
new
species
would
bless
me
as
its
creator
and
source
;
many
happy
and
excellent
natures
would
owe
their
being
to
me
.
No
father
could
claim
the
gratitude
of
his
child
so
completely
as
I
should
deserve
theirs
.
Pursuing
these
reflections
,
I
thought
that
if
I
could
bestow
animation
upon
lifeless
matter
,
I
might
in
process
of
time
(
although
I
now
found
it
impossible
)
renew
life
where
death
had
apparently
devoted
the
body
to
corruption
.
These
thoughts
supported
my
spirits
,
while
I
pursued
my
undertaking
with
unremitting
ardour
.
My
cheek
had
grown
pale
with
study
,
and
my
person
had
become
emaciated
with
confinement
.
Sometimes
,
on
the
very
brink
of
certainty
,
I
failed
;
yet
still
I
clung
to
the
hope
which
the
next
day
or
the
next
hour
might
realize
.
One
secret
which
I
alone
possessed
was
the
hope
to
which
I
had
dedicated
myself
;
and
the
moon
gazed
on
my
midnight
labours
,
while
,
with
unrelaxed
and
breathless
eagerness
,
I
pursued
nature
to
her
hiding-places
.
Who
shall
conceive
the
horrors
of
my
secret
toil
as
I
dabbled
among
the
unhallowed
damps
of
the
grave
or
tortured
the
living
animal
to
animate
the
lifeless
clay
?
My
limbs
now
tremble
,
and
my
eyes
swim
with
the
remembrance
;
but
then
a
resistless
and
almost
frantic
impulse
urged
me
forward
;
I
seemed
to
have
lost
all
soul
or
sensation
but
for
this
one
pursuit
.
It
was
indeed
but
a
passing
trance
,
that
only
made
me
feel
with
renewed
acuteness
so
soon
as
,
the
unnatural
stimulus
ceasing
to
operate
,
I
had
returned
to
my
old
habits
.
I
collected
bones
from
charnel
--
houses
and
disturbed
,
with
profane
fingers
,
the
tremendous
secrets
of
the
human
frame
.
In
a
solitary
chamber
,
or
rather
cell
,
at
the
top
of
the
house
,
and
separated
from
all
the
other
apartments
by
a
gallery
and
staircase
,
I
kept
my
workshop
of
filthy
creation
;
my
eyeballs
were
starting
from
their
sockets
in
attending
to
the
details
of
my
employment
.
The
dissecting
room
and
the
slaughter
--
house
furnished
many
of
my
materials
;
and
often
did
my
human
nature
turn
with
loathing
from
my
occupation
,
whilst
,
still
urged
on
by
an
eagerness
which
perpetually
increased
,
I
brought
my
work
near
to
a
conclusion
.
The
summer
months
passed
while
I
was
thus
engaged
,
heart
and
soul
,
in
one
pursuit
.
It
was
a
most
beautiful
season
;
never
did
the
fields
bestow
a
more
plentiful
harvest
or
the
vines
yield
a
more
luxuriant
vintage
,
but
my
eyes
were
insensible
to
the
charms
of
nature
.
And
the
same
feelings
which
made
me
neglect
the
scenes
around
me
caused
me
also
to
forget
those
friends
who
were
so
many
miles
absent
,
and
whom
I
had
not
seen
for
so
long
a
time
.
I
knew
my
silence
disquieted
them
,
and
I
well
remembered
the
words
of
my
father
:
"
I
know
that
while
you
are
pleased
with
yourself
you
will
think
of
us
with
affection
,
and
we
shall
hear
regularly
from
you
.
You
must
pardon
me
if
I
regard
any
interruption
in
your
correspondence
as
a
proof
that
your
other
duties
are
equally
neglected
.
"
I
knew
well
therefore
what
would
be
my
father
's
feelings
,
but
I
could
not
tear
my
thoughts
from
my
employment
,
loathsome
in
itself
,
but
which
had
taken
an
irresistible
hold
of
my
imagination
.
I
wished
,
as
it
were
,
to
procrastinate
all
that
related
to
my
feelings
of
affection
until
the
great
object
,
which
swallowed
up
every
habit
of
my
nature
,
should
be
completed
.
I
then
thought
that
my
father
would
be
unjust
if
he
ascribed
my
neglect
to
vice
or
faultiness
on
my
part
,
but
I
am
now
convinced
that
he
was
justified
in
conceiving
that
I
should
not
be
altogether
free
from
blame
.
A
human
being
in
perfection
ought
always
to
preserve
a
calm
and
peaceful
mind
and
never
to
allow
passion
or
a
transitory
desire
to
disturb
his
tranquillity
.
I
do
not
think
that
the
pursuit
of
knowledge
is
an
exception
to
this
rule
.
If
the
study
to
which
you
apply
yourself
has
a
tendency
to
weaken
your
affections
and
to
destroy
your
taste
for
those
simple
pleasures
in
which
no
alloy
can
possibly
mix
,
then
that
study
is
certainly
unlawful
,
that
is
to
say
,
not
befitting
the
human
mind
.
If
this
rule
were
always
observed
;
if
no
man
allowed
any
pursuit
whatsoever
to
interfere
with
the
tranquillity
of
his
domestic
affections
,
Greece
had
not
been
enslaved
,
Caesar
would
have
spared
his
country
,
America
would
have
been
discovered
more
gradually
,
and
the
empires
of
Mexico
and
Peru
had
not
been
destroyed
.
But
I
forget
that
I
am
moralizing
in
the
most
interesting
part
of
my
tale
,
and
your
looks
remind
me
to
proceed
.
My
father
made
no
reproach
in
his
letters
and
only
took
notice
of
my
science
by
inquiring
into
my
occupations
more
particularly
than
before
.
Winter
,
spring
,
and
summer
passed
away
during
my
labours
;
but
I
did
not
watch
the
blossom
or
the
expanding
leaves
--
sights
which
before
always
yielded
me
supreme
delight
--
so
deeply
was
I
engrossed
in
my
occupation
.
The
leaves
of
that
year
had
withered
before
my
work
drew
near
to
a
close
,
and
now
every
day
showed
me
more
plainly
how
well
I
had
succeeded
.
But
my
enthusiasm
was
checked
by
my
anxiety
,
and
I
appeared
rather
like
one
doomed
by
slavery
to
toil
in
the
mines
,
or
any
other
unwholesome
trade
than
an
artist
occupied
by
his
favourite
employment
.
Every
night
I
was
oppressed
by
a
slow
fever
,
and
I
became
nervous
to
a
most
painful
degree
;
the
fall
of
a
leaf
startled
me
,
and
I
shunned
my
fellow
creatures
as
if
I
had
been
guilty
of
a
crime
.
Sometimes
I
grew
alarmed
at
the
wreck
I
perceived
that
I
had
become
;
the
energy
of
my
purpose
alone
sustained
me
:
my
labours
would
soon
end
,
and
I
believed
that
exercise
and
amusement
would
then
drive
away
incipient
disease
;
and
I
promised
myself
both
of
these
when
my
creation
should
be
complete
.
