The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
IMO this book is genius. It tells and interesting, eerie story, parts teaching instruction, science fiction, spirituality, philosophy, history, thriller, classic. It makes the reader think upon the base form of a human while providing entertainment. Also, I believe it spawned many future stories from other authors.
This phrase leads me to believe that [a:Robert Louis Stevenson|854076|Robert Louis Stevenson|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1192746024p2/854076.jpg] was speaking of himself—his inner self and of his legacy. Maybe he knew others would use his ideas for their outlines.
In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life which lies at the root of religion, and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering. And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.
