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Chapter 2
Victor discovers old books of magic and science. His friend Henry Clerval. Lightning destroys a tree and he wants to know why.
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.
Victor · Chapter 2 · knowledge · ambition
As a boy Victor wanted to know how everything worked. That wanting is where it starts.
Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate
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Science decided his life, he says. Not him.
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