"I had no good thoughts for humanity, beyond my small endeavors in my little field of science.

I was a machine myself, cold, passionless, caring little for women--thus proving, if I had stopped to consider myself, the unreasonableness of my own theory.

Coolly and without a thought of the consequences, I set out to prove myself right.

When I think of it now my action appalls me.

It was heinous, for the mere proving of my theory meant misery and unhappiness for those who were to prove it to me.