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I am by birth a Genevese, & my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
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One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, & indeed, any animal endued with life.
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I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time, renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.
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