Commingled Out of Good and Evil

I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

Henry Jekyll Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Context: Jekyll explains why people recoil from Hyde on sight.

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Source: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case

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