... feat of looking beyond even them. Along with the Industrial Revolution arose the belief that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. As a result, the distinction between the living and the dead ... , is refused by the De Laceys. In his misery the creature reverts to raw nature stating, "I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings. I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destr...

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