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  1. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Dr. Moreau

    In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of replacing old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct ; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
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  2. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Dr. Moreau

    You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.
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