"I abhor mankind. . . . I strongly doubt . . . whether at any moment in the day I for my part am not animated by the most vehement impulse, or caressing some black scheme, to cause harm to humankind ; there is no more execrable species. Be he powerful, then man is dangerous . . . Is he puny, weak, woebegone? then how base he is, how vile, how
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