Additionally, the genius of Dr. Frankenstein was bound by certain conventions. Even Dr. Pretorius was captive to the human form in his experiments. Our forebearers were, in the end, imitators of nature. They took great strides forward, but they were both limited, Frankenstein by certain regrettably tenacious vestiges of social considerations he took to be morality, a morality he never even followed—such a contradictory concept we have long since left behind—and Pretorius who, though able to refine the process and seemingly free of the failures of a conscience, was not able to progress the idea. No, the next step forward came much later, and from my own country of America. Dr. West, recognized as one of the greats in our trade, was the first to really move forward. What spurred him on? Boredom. He grew bored of making the same thing over and over again. He ceased to make men, and with a little help from some of the notes of Dr. Moreau, whose work was not such a dead end as many assume, began to shake off the shackles of convention and move beyond nature.
Rough Draft: Opening Remarks at a Mad Science Convention
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