Project Gutenberg #159
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
1896Wells's bioethical island nightmare, prepared introduction and chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 16 — XVI. How The Beast Folk Taste Blood. Central question What happens when instinct breaks through the Law? Main argument The chapter shows the limits of moral instruction when appetite and violence...
Fate, a vast
pitiless mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence and
I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for
drink), the Beast People with their instincts and mental restrictions,
were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite
complexity of its incessant wheels. But this condition did not come all
at once: I think indeed that I anticipate a little in speaking of it
now.