Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.
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H.G. Wells was a 19th-century English writer. Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world