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1I was born in the year 18-- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry,
2fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee
3of an honourable and distinguished future. And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of
4disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire
5to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I
6concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my
7progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life. Many a man would have
8even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and
9hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame. It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any
10particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of
11men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature. In this case, I was
12driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the
13most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me
14were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in
15the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering. And it chanced that the direction
16of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on
17this consciousness of the perennial war among my members. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the
18moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to
19such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge
20does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess
21that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens. I, for my
22part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only. It was on the moral
23side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the
24two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only
25because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to
26suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on
27the thought of the separation of these elements. If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life
28would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of
29his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in
30which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. It
31was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together--that in the agonised womb of
32consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How, then were they dissociated? I was so far in my
33reflections when, as I have said, a side light began to shine upon the subject from the laboratory table. I began to
34perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this
35seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired. Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and pluck back that
36fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion. For two good reasons, I will not enter deeply
37into this scientific branch of my confession. First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our
38life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more
39unfamiliar and more awful pressure. Second, because, as my narrative will make, alas! too evident, my discoveries were
40incomplete. Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the
41powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their
42supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression,
43and bore the stamp, of lower elements in my soul. I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice. I
44knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might,
45by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that
46immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change. But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last
47overcame the suggestions of alarm. I had long since prepared my tincture; I purchased at once, from a firm of wholesale
48chemists, a large quantity of a particular salt which I knew, from my experiments, to be the last ingredient required;
49and late one accursed night, I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together in the glass, and when the
50ebullition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. The most racking pangs succeeded: a
51grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
52Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something
53strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I felt younger,
54lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running
55like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.
56I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original
57evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine. I stretched out my hands, exulting in the
58freshness of these sensations; and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature. There was no mirror, at
59that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of
60these transformations. The night however, was far gone into the morning--the morning, black as it was, was nearly ripe
61for the conception of the day--the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I
62determined, flushed as I was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom. I crossed the
63yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort
64that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house;
65and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
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