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When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I

hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should

employ it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing

animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with

all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained

a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. I doubted at first

whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or

one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much

exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability

to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The

materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate

to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should

ultimately succeed.