More Than Animal Within Us

There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells

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Context: Prendick reflects on the comfort he finds in studying the stars.

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Source: Chapter XXII, “The Man Alone”

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