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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: chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded."
I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various
arguments which he had employed. I thought of the promise of
virtues which he had displayed on the opening of his existence and
the subsequent blight of all kindly feeling by the loathing and
scorn which his protectors had manifested towards him. His power
and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who
could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from
pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being
possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with. After a long
pause of reflection I concluded that the justice due both to him
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