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Pause Brea SOnol Ledk SydE Num Leck bert Page Home 115 Frankenstein whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it. "As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathised with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was The path of my departure Annihilation My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, essed me deeply. oped, to admire dependent was free';2 and there was none to lament my on none and related to none. lence and gen- a desire to be- equalities the progress of ccurred in the were solve them. "The volume of Plutarch's Lives, which I possessed, contained the his- tories of the first founders of the ancient republics. This book had a far different effect upon me from the Sorrows of Werter. I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom: but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflec- tions to admire and love the heroes of past ages. Many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience. I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas. But I was aboring wood, g for my pro- taining several and returned the language consisted of rter. The pos- continually t my friends perfectly unacquainted with towns, and large assemblages of men. The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature; but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species. I felt the greatestardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood . They pro- etimes raised st dejection. d affecting rown upon they were, as I applied them, pleasure and pain alone. Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in pref- erence to Romulus and Theseus.3 The patriarchal lives of my protectors sed these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if st introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, Ag for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with dif the signification of those terms, relative as to it a never d dome d fe "But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions. I read it, as I hadad the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a tmoved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture ut sensations capable of exciting true ent God warring with his creatures was of

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