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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
 * The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth.