![]() Although West’s general philosophic perspective was consistently described as that of an absolute mechanistic materialist, this was still a major shift in his scientific endeavors. When the salesman was revived, it was obvious from his reaction that West murdered him. West killed and the preserved the salesman with an embalming fluid and waited for his friend to return to inject his reanimation serum. West’s obsession with conquering death and need for a fresh body eventually led to him actually murdering someone – a salesman traveling to Bolton Worsted Mills. Each experiment with a human corpse revealed that the body must be very fresh with little or no decay. West started his experiments with animals and then moves to human cadavers. ![]() However, as the story proceeds, West’s fanatical pursuit of knowledge is only exacerbated and pushed to the extreme. Lovecraft’s story “Herbert West – Reanimator.” Initially West is your typically cold scientist, closely following the rigors of the Scientific Method. ![]() As the protagonist suggested in “From Beyond,” a scientist should be a “frigid and impersonal investigator…” While Crawford Tillinghast did not exhibit these traits as a scientist, this certainly described Herbert West, at least in the initial chapters of H.P. ![]()
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