“Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.”

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains

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