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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more
familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home,
and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.
Yet I am certainly unjust. Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty;
and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered,
assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
For the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefactor
and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to
love as if it had been her own! I could not consent to the death of any
human being, but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit
to remain in the society of men. But she was innocent. I know,
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